I don’t want to shoot someone’s dog or even a stray dog. It angers me when some gutless wonder abandons their dog, leaving it for someone else to shoot.
That behavior reminds me of “have a heart” live traps where people take a rodent away from their house to “set it free” and die miserably somewhere else because they don’t have the guts to do it themselves. As long as the dirty work is done out of their sight.
Sort of like “I’d never harm a living creature” people who buy their hamburger from the store.
The 3S solution only works when there’s no frozen ground.
One day I was home from work and heard the chickens cackling. I see some strange dogs. They’d killed a few chickens. I was able to grab one dog and chain it up as the other took off. I figured they had probably been dropped off and abandoned. No collar or tags. Went and got a gun. Cocked the trigger, put it to its head...then thought how am I going to bury this dog before the kids get home, it’s February!
I’m not much for government, but decided that the animal control officer should earn his pay and dispose of it (after 10 days or whatever). His problem, not mine.
I found out later the dogs were a neighbors. Somebody tried to break into his house, bent the porch storm door and the dogs got out. He thanked me profusely for finding them and told me how much he needed them as his wife had just left him...only thing in his life right now...they’re his children.. blah, blah blah...
I didn’t have the heart to tell him the only reason I didn’t give his dog a lead injection was because the ground was frozen and it would be a pain in the @$$ to bury it.
