By the way FReepers already knew of this story on Bookface. The Husky owner had trouble with this neighbor in the past. His husky had killed the neighobor's goats BUT the husky owner paid for them! The husky owner then put up higher fences but the snow storms knocked them down and "Donald Trump" got out. The poor husky was shot 4 times and left to die in a field, the neighbor did not contact the owner or police.
Anything is fair game against a Trump supporter.
It sounds like the Owner and his dog were both GUILTY!
As soon as I saw the phrase that he was ‘protecting his livestock’, I began to see the tragedy in a possibly different light.
Huskies are beautiful, smart and notorious for escaping their confines to roam freely. Some dogs of any breed will fall into instinctive predator behavior patterns and cannot be broken of it.
They can only be held back. It’s very sad, but if you have a dog, people don’t have to accept that dog coming onto their property. No, they do not.
The only difference was after the dog was killed, the farmer would deliver the pet to the owner with an apology. The apology was sincere, but it was kind of "Sorry I shot your dog, it was chasing the cows." The owner usually replied, "Well, I guess it had to be done. Thanks for bringing Rover back to me."
Unfortunately once a canine kills livestock it will continue to do so when an opportunity presents itself.
“Randall Thom who’s dog was shot to death because he’s named “Donald Trump”. The pup was found in a field on February 10, 2019 and had suffered fatal wounds that included four on his legs, right shoulder and two on his back. Thom met POTUS and got a autographed pic of the dog, promised to gift him to the president after winning the election : “that was the picture i had him sign right after the gop nomination, as he was signing i said, Mr Trump meet Donald J Trump. and he stopped turned to me, and said, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? YOU NAMED THIS BEAUTIFUL PUPPY AFTER ME? I said yes sir and this is my card. because when we win the white house i want to donate Donald to be the very very first Alaskan malamute as the first puppy.. he took my card and said, hey Corey we might be needing this, i said, no sir, you will be needing it as we will be winning the white house.lol”
https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/3033899
Doesn’t sound like it had anything to do with the dogs name. The dog had previously killed his livestock and should be shot on sight.
When politics and the dog's name are removed from the story, it looks a lot different.
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.
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.
Heck someone call Jimmy Carter I start aiming the glock
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.
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.
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.
I understand that a dog who has killed livestock needs to be put down if it gets out again. My objection is letting the dog lay there and suffer. Why so many leg shots? After the dog was down, it should have been humanely dispatched immediately.
“Police insists killing was not...”
Not sure, I trust the Police on subject of shooting people’s dogs.
Just trying to imagine the police officer who received the call...”I’d like to report that my neighbor, John Smith, shot Donald Trump.” That’d be worth at least 6 cups of coffee in terms of waking someone up.
Randall isn’t the best guy. Trust me on this...or run your own criminal record search. He’s a scammer.