The story doesn't say, but "paying for damages" is something that the law and most people get wrong all the time.
For instance, your dog kills my goat. If a similar goat goes for $60 at the local farmer's market, most people think that if they write a check for $60 they are clear.
Wait a minute there. I took me 1.5 hours to dispose of the goat, 8 hours to track down the dog owner, and it is going to take 3 hours with my livestock trailer to go pick up and return a goat to my pasture. So there is an additional 12.5 hours of my time that I have not been compensated.
What is that worth? Good question. The last time I worked for someone else I was paid $100/hour, but that was 20 years ago. So put 20 years of inflation on top of $1250 and pay me that. Plus the mileage for my truck and livestock trailer.
When your dog comes on my land and kills my livestock, you don't get to just pay for the livestock and leave. And you don't get to tell me my time is worth $0, or even $30/hour.
This is why dogs get shot...
I know the owner did because I got the facebook story on this. This story is now 24+ hours old.
In fact am not even sure this is the same dog that killed the man’s goats several years ago.
This dog “Donald Trump” is not very old. You see this man breeds huskies and has many of them. The dog that killed the goats may have been another dog.
https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/husky-named-donald-trump-shot-to-death-left-to-suffer/
“Randall Thom spoke with The Libertarian Republic regarding the conflict with his neighbor. Thom states that 2 years ago, an incident occurred where one of his dogs had gotten into the neighbor’s goat pen.
Thom had reimbursed his neighbor for the lost goats, and upgraded all of his fencing. However, a blizzard caused some of the new fencing to collapse, and the neighbor shot Donald on site while Thom was away from home.”
If the story is accurate this was a justifiable shoot of the dog. Most sad this is. My objection to the story is making it political. If it was a bad dog it needed killing. Its name is irrelevant.
I have three dogs and two cats. They live mostly in harmony together with the exception of my Siamese. She knows the dogs will not hurt her but is just a bitch if they encroach on her territory. My other cat will sleep right next to the dogs. They like each other.
Not to mention if the livestock is part of your special breeding program the loss is greater than the value, breeding programs can be years in the making. Often the loss is greater than the value and as you say there is labor involved.