Posted on 06/27/2012 7:05:01 AM PDT by el_texicano
Emotion overcomes Joy C. McDonald each time she pauses to think about what her future might hold.
She could lose her job, her small rented home and custody of her three children — all because her two little dogs supposedly scared a neighbor’s elderly chicken to death.
According to McDonald, the penned bird apparently suffered a heart attack when her two Chihuahuas barked at it while running loose in their rural Lafayette County neighborhood.
A chicken heart attack?
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Apparently in her book her little chow-mains could go anywhere and do anything they please because they were "playful" which is usually code words for nasty little ankle bitters that the owner refuses to discipline.
And she won't go to jail, she will just have to pay a fine and keep her destructive animals under control.
Actually, Robert Frost did NOT say, “good fences make good neighbors”. Please re-read the poem. It is the poet’s taciturn neighbor who says this. What Robert Frost says in his voice in the poem is found in the opening line: “Something there is that does not like a wall.” (The quote may not be exact, I’m relying on memory.) The entire poem is a meditation on how walls are not good.
When you are in the wrong, it helps to roll over, plead for forgiveness and offer restitution. It is not wise to be rude and callous when someone is telling you that your out of control dogs came onto their property and killed their pet. Free people don’t know how to be civilized with one another anymore so a police state has evolved to apply a zero tolerance sledge hammer to every nail.
He never said it, he wrote it..........
She should retain a good attorney .... I would recommend she find one with extensive experience in chicken heart attacks.
Like it or not, this is how it goes in farm/rural (NOT suburb) country. Dogs do run loose. BUT, anyone who lets their dog run also knows that if said dog is caught/seen killing farm livestock, said dog WILL be "terminated with extreme prejudice", and more often than not, the dog owner will agree with the action. The criterion isn't "loose dog", but "killer dog". Dogs that leave livestock alone are themselves left alone. No harm, no foul.
And yes, farm folks do lose pets to traffic (a much more frequent occurrence than the above "termination").
My neighbors (4 year old)daughter came onto my property and went up to the dog while he was sleeping and pulled on his ear. He gave her a nip which barely broke the skin. I insisted that we take her to the ER even though I had proof the dog was up to date on all his shots. I told my neighbor I would pay the whole bill, he refused and we settled on splitting it 50/50.
In addition when I lived in NYS it was not uncommon to see packs of dogs chasing down deer. It was perfectly legal to shoot the dogs.
Sara,
I totally agree with your post.
Political Correctness has trumped Common Sense and Civility.
If this happened 30 years ago, the neighbor with the dogs would have walked over to the neighbor with the chicken and apologized and paid for the cost of a new chicken.
Also, the neighbor with the dead chicken would probably have said “accidents happen”.
Legally dog boy
Fixed it for you.
http://roswell.patch.com/articles/roswell-chicken-man-jailed
They are lucky the chicken died, you can be imprisoned for keeping chickens.
An eye for an eye would have meant that the woman would have had to have one of her pets (dogs) killed in return.
Fortunately we have moved beyond that level of justice.
Much better. Thanks.
I’ve become a jynx to birds lately. First, I was out walking a couple of weeks ago and a bird fell off the electric/phone wire and dropped dead right in front of me. In fact, I am surprised it didn’t actually hit me!
Then last thursday a babyish/adolescent bluebird seemed to have been lost from it’s nest and was hunkered down in my back yard. It didn’t move for 2 days and was dead by the time I arrived home on Friday...
I suppose I should be jailed for bird deaths....
About 50 years ago, my father shot a dog who was after our chickens....he didn’t mean to kill it, just to scare it off, unfortunately, he hit it, and it died. Turned out the dog was owned by MY 3rd grade teacher. Of course she was hurt, however, knew the dog was where he was NOT supposed to be doing what he was NOT supposed to do....oh, and by the way, I was Mrs. Cayoo’s “teacher’s pet”...for you youngn’s....her favorite student. All ended well. So many people today are self centered, narcissistic brats.
Our neighbor Chihuahua, aptly named Dearth Vader, would be dangerous if he were any larger. He thinks he owns the world. Chihuahuas must have the “little dog” complex!
When I moved to CS CO, I went and lalked to two different barking dog owners, the only thing that surprised me about this story is that she laughed. I got cussed at. Never confronted a barking dog owner again. I sent the law after them.
Barking dog owners don't give a rats ass about anyone, or anything else. They're assholes.
Whatever punishment this barking dog owner gets won't be enough in my book.
You are only forgetting that after the apology and acceptance, then they would have had a nice chicken dinner together!
Not so... As I noted, minor offenses under the Mosaic law were paid by restitution, not literally. The “eye for an eye..” phrase was used to show the limits of payment for an offense. In this case, the woman would have given her $5.00 for the replacement cost of the chicken...
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