Loose dogs and owner responsibilty

[greatrandini]

I have a "great" attitude. I think you should go back and reread your previous post. One time you advocate just shooting your own dog. "Why let a stranger do it? Be responsible". (Is this really the stand on this issue you want to make?) Another time you say "the Vet came out to your place to put your loved pet down." (I think that is more like you!) I admire John Wayne my favorite movie of all time is "True Grit". Do you remember how he rode that little black horse to death to save the girl. Wow that was hard for old Rooster to do but he never gave it a second thought. I just think it is ok for someone to have someone else (the veterinarian) put his pets to sleep. You are still doing the responsible thing. I have had to have physically healthy animals put down because I considered them a threat to people or other animals. This is always hard to do but I was in my opinion more responsible in taking them to the DR. then if I would have shot them. I disagree with the SSS (shoot, shovel, shutup) theory for other peoples animals also. As I have said if I have to shoot your animal I am going to tell you about it and I won't be pleasant.

 

[greatrandini]

Answer this question honestly please. Is you wife afraid of you? I know I am!

 

[MDM]

No, but she scares me sometimes. She was pretty upset at first. She got over it eventually, especially after we got a $300 Emergency room bill and a call from the county Health Dept about having an amimal that bit our child. I didn't know, but apparently the Emergency room reports animal bites to the Health Dept. All I could think of was what would happen to us if it happened again. Are they going to report us to children services or something because our daughter was bit by our house cat a second time. Plus, as a new parent, I am very protective of my daughter and wife for that matter, hence, no more cat, no more cat bites, and no more worries.

 

[KentT]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I have a "great" attitude. I think you should go back and reread your previous post. One time you advocate just shooting your own dog. "Why let a stranger do it? Be responsible". (Is this really the stand on this issue you want to make?) Another time you say "the Vet came out to your place to put your loved pet down." (I think that is more like you!) I admire John Wayne my favorite movie of all time is "True Grit". Do you remember how he rode that little black horse to death to save the girl. Wow that was hard for old Rooster to do but he never gave it a second thought. I just think it is ok for someone to have someone else (the veterinarian) put his pets to sleep. You are still doing the responsible thing. I have had to have physically healthy animals put down because I considered them a threat to people or other animals. This is always hard to do but I was in my opinion more responsible in taking them to the DR. then if I would have shot them. I disagree with the SSS (shoot, shovel, shutup) theory for other peoples animals also. As I have said if I have to shoot your animal I am going to tell you about it and I won't be pleasant. )</font>

Beware of scatter-guns, they can do collateral damage...

I wasn't the person that said I had the vet come out... nor have I mentioned John Wayne until now. Yet, you seem to think you understand me with the "... more like you..."

Methinks you don't really have a clue who I am, what I've experienced, what I think nor what I believe. So be a bit more precise in singling out who and how you display this "great" flippant attitude of yours to, OK?

Continue to pay others to do the dirty work for you if you must -- that's still better than the work not being done at all ...
But, I'll continue to stand by my statement that that is much easier than doing it yourself, and not necessarily more humane...

 

[greatrandini]

I get it but you wrung its neck!

 

[greatrandini]

You are correct I got confused. Sorry about that. You are also correct in saying that I don't know you. I think that may be the blessing here. I think I have said all a can about this. Shoot your own dog if you want to.

 

[kensfarm]

"I got ahold of the cat and a quick wring of the neck and the cat was no more."

Tell that to the judge and you'll be locked up.. you def. had alternate choices. You say your wife "got over it".. ask any pet owner what they think.. you killed an animal she loved.

I read one story of a farmer who shot a dog chasing his cattle.. he had warned the owners at least twice.. judge thought he could have handled it differently.. the farmer was convicted of animal cruelty.

 

[MDM]

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You say your wife "got over it".. ask any pet owner what they think.. you killed an animal she loved.

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Yeah, but the cat bit our child whom we both love very much...more so than some darn cat. My wife thought it was a little harsh, but agreed that she would have wanted me to put it down anyway. I could have tried to give the cat away, but I didn't think anyone would want a 10 yr old cat that bites. Nobody around here anyway. I suppose I could have shot it in the head, but I was acting in anger because my daughter was hurt so badly. Its not like it suffered, it was instantaneous. I live in the country, not a pseudo "rural living" area. I grew up on a farm. I can remember my grandpa shooting his own beagle because it took to chasing deer while rabbit hunting. Nobody wanted a rabbit dog that wouldn't hunt rabbits. That is the kind of area I live in. I live in a county where the sheriff, who has been in office for 35 years, will not allow a state highway patrolman in his jail. Icouldn't tell you the last time I saw any type of law enforcement office actually. We don't really need them. Everyone is friendly, helps eachother, that type of area. So, if one of our dogs bite my daughter, the dog will be shot promptly. I won't have an animal that bites, dog or cat. Maybe if it happens again, I will pay to have it put down rather than do it myself - I would hate to go to jail for killing a cat because some city slicker judge thinks its cruel.

To each his own, I guess.

 

[greatrandini]

Thought u said u were Ohio? Sounds more like Utah! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Do they have D I V O R C E in your neck of the woods? If your wife does divorce you is she still your sister? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[LMTC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Answer this question honestly please. Is you wife afraid of you? I know I am! )</font> What a smug sarcastic comment. Aren't you able to express your positions without making disparaging personal comments? Can't you defend your ideas rather than demean the person you disagree with?

Sometimes there are simply different viewpoints, preferences, and values. I personally have little use for the value that prefers making remarks like the one above rather than accepting disagreement or offering up rational arguments to support a position.