Posted on 02/13/2019 10:34:37 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Dog called Donald Trump is shot dead by his owner's neighbor - but police insist the killing was NOT politically motivated
A Minnesota sheriff says a dog named Donald Trump wasn't shot and killed over a political rivalry, despite false claims circulating on social media that have spurred 'violent threats' against some county residents.
The Jackson County Sheriff's office concluded the person who shot Donald Trump the dog Sunday was 'legally protecting their livestock' on private property.
The shooter has not been identified.
The dog's owner, Randal Thom, 58, is an avid supporter of the president and has been featured in dozens of news stories for frequenting his rallies as well as disrupting those held by Democratic candidates.
Some social media users claimed a neighbor, who they believed to be a Democrat, intentionally killed Thom's dog.
Neighbors have lodged 14 complaints about Thom's dogs running loose, killing animals and attacking a person, according to the sheriff.
Thom was convicted on a petty misdemeanor of 'dogs and cats at large' in 2015, according to Minnesota court records.
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Having grown up on a very rural farm...the minute you have a neighbor with aggressive dogs that are allowed to roam...you have a bad neighbor, and shooting the dog is the only solution to the problem. There’s probably more to this story, but the minute that various neighbors talk over roaming dogs...it goes down one path.
I’m a total dog lover. But a dog going killing animals at the neighbors isn’t tolerable. And it isn’t made all better by writing them a check.
Even when an animal will end up in the slaughterhouse one day, they care about the well-being of those animals and nobody wants to come home and find their goats ripped apart for fun.
The Husky is fed at home, it just does it because it is what they like to do.
I’ve given dogs up after realizing
they were a threat to livestock or
people. This problem should have
been recognized long before the sad
outcome. I fully understand the love
for a pet and companion. I had a Husky
that absolutely hated cats. After him
dragging his doghouse in pursuit a
couple times, Oso found a free and happy
life on a homestead in the middle of
nowhere.
The neighbor said NO animals were even outside to “attack” at all.
All locked up in their barn.
They’re trying TOO hard to make it “non-political”, IMO, because of all the other insane violence coming from the left.
People may not twitch when Republicans get their noses bloodied by ANTIFA psychos but OMG, somebody shot a ~dog~?
The optics are much worse with this, for the left.
Add to NY letting you murder your kid a second before it draws its first breath and the left solidifies its ever-growing reputation as being maniacal, dangerous butchers.
From what I see on all social media, *most* people are not buying this “The dog had it coming” crap.
Hopefully this means that people are not nearly as stupid as the leftist MSM thinks.
So much more...from “anti-fascists” attacking conservatives, to protecting illegals who are poisoning Americans with drugs, assaulting a kid for wearing a hat, to killing babies who are seconds from being born...
The mask is slipping and the left is showing its true and evil face a little more, each day.
It’s no longer just “politics”; it’s good versus evil.
I don’t know why people are not seeing this.
And it’s just going to get worse.
So much more...from “anti-fascists” attacking conservatives, to protecting illegals who are poisoning Americans with drugs, assaulting a kid for wearing a hat, to killing babies who are seconds from being born...
The mask is slipping and the left is showing its true and evil face a little more, each day.
It’s no longer just “politics”; it’s good versus evil.
I don’t know why people are not seeing this.
And it’s just going to get worse.
Yah.
Not political at all.
In one of my Doberman forums, there is a dog named Trumpy and another named Melania.
A year ago, that made me happy.
Now I just fear for their lives.
This is not how America should be.
14 previous complaints.
From what I read, the name of the dog had NOTHING to do with its shooting.
Let’s not collectively lose our minds.
We have WAY too many real enemies.
In the Texas hill country the sheep/goat ranchers routinely go through town and poison all the stray dogs.
Heck someone call Jimmy Carter I start aiming the glock
I looked up the law on this in Pennsylvania relating to a neighbor’s dogs chasing and killing wild turkeys in our yard, after repeated warnings.
They threatened to have me arrested so I gave them a copy of the law.
Turkeys are considered big game. Not only can you shoot the dog and the law protects you from cruelty to animal charges, but you are to turn the dead dog over to game officials so they can cite the dog owner.
I didn’t shoot it as the owner was the jerk, not the dog.
I know what I’d do. They are neighbors, do they share a property boundary? What direction is the prevailing wind? If the situation is right I would start raising (legally) every pig I could afford right on the property line so the aroma could get straight to the asshole. When he gets tired of it and tries to move that smell will cripple his wallet. Revenge is a dish best served very cold.
I would shoot the dog, too, especially if it killed my goats, and just because the moron paid for the goats doesn’t mean the dog gets a free pass to do it again so log as they’re willing to pay.
You never get enough compensation for the lost animal and all the time and care you put into it if you love it, much less the grief of seeing your animals mauled and suffering after a dog attack. It wasn’t my animals that escaped and wandered into the dog’s territory, it was the dog that intruded in theirs.
I have had to deal with assorted dog problems all my life, such as two neighbors who failed to train their dogs to behave around livestock - I captured the one prick’s dog after it had killed thousands of dollar’s worth of exotic parrots and two heritage turkeys and it was a shame because I actually liked the dog, and felt sorry for its owners ignoring it, so I found someone in another city to adopt it after failing to get compensation from its owner who was in a messy divorce... As for the other owner, he got rid of the dog rather than see me make a rug out of [or maybe it was fear I’d call animal control which would mean a hefty fine] it after I proved it was their dog killing my ducks by capturing it and photographing its collar. Even though they did pay for the ducks, the dog remained a threat and would be shot on sight.
The first dog ended up dead when it escaped from the new owners and got hit by a car. Too bad, so sad.
Dogs are worse than any other predator...once they kill an animal they keep killing until every one they can find is dead or dying, they don’t just catch one to eat. They aren’t even hungry when they do it, they just kill out of the sheer thrill of doing it.
The dog previously killed —not chased — livestock.
A dog, and his owner, get one bite. If that. You’re now messing with a mans livlihood.
Dog should have been moved or put down.
The only problem I have with shooting a menace dog is it’s wise to use a suppressor and go dump the body.
So you figure it's OK for a dog to kill livestock as long as the owner pays for the livestock. By that logic it's OK to kill the dog too as long as you pay for it
Sorry dog lovers, but dogs killing livestock are fair game. If you have a dog and don't keep it under control then too bad if it gets shot. I had a coworker who complained repeatedly to her neighbor about the neighbor's dogs getting out and killing her chickens. Neighbor said "Not my dogs." Complained to county law enforcement too and you can guess how far that got. She told us that she found the bottom strand of her barbed wire fence propped up adjacent to the neighbors yard - presumably to let the dogs have better access to her property. Finally when she saw them chasing her chickens she shot and killed both of them - neighbor had a different tune then.
Years ago a coworker transferred to our plant in Kentucky. He had two huskies that killed a neighbor’s cow. If they do it once, they’ll do it again so he had them put down......
The police have become as much a political enemy as the neighbor who shot the dog. This is unfortunate, but still true.
JoMa
Sounds like shooting the dog was fully justified.
Keep your dog under control and on your property.
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