Posted on 01/13/2020 9:30:59 PM PST by conservative98
“Anytime county deputies or game and fish are around my property”
If they’re on your property without your permission then you need to insist that they leave.
No warrant means they’re just armed thugs violating your rights.
It’s not that binary Megan
Usually it’s because an old man from Michigan who hates guns and lives 600 yards away calls
They pull up
We tell them yes we’re shooting shotguns or small caliber long arms and we chat and it’s them telling me he’s a jackass
Ditto for burns
I loathed when they built that fancy neighborhood but we thought it was far enough away
I try not to have the sheriffs Dept as adversaries
Been there done that in my life
But with big dogs you do have to control them with cops around
Dogs don’t like cops
Update: https://nypost.com/2020/01/14/dog-killed-by-secret-service-agent-was-on-a-leash-but-unrestrained/
“The dog that was fatally shot by an off-duty Secret Service agent in Brooklyn was on a leash at the time but “unrestrained,” the agency said Tuesday.
“An off-duty Secret Service employee was involved in the shooting of an unrestrained and aggressive canine in Brooklyn, NY yesterday,” an agency spokesman said in a statement Tuesday. “As this is an ongoing investigation, the Secret Service will not have further comment.”
The agency said the dog was on a leash but it was unsecured from its owner, who was not present.
A source familiar with the investigation confirmed to The Post that the dog was on a leash, but that no one was holding the leash at the time of the shooting.”
Um, NO. It never just "goes off". Keep your d@mn booger hook off the bang switch and these stupid incidents don't happen (not you, of course, conservative98).
Dogs are not people, dogs are not equal to people, dogs are property, people are not.
How to be a dick on free republic,
1) own a big fierce dog , trash anyone who defends self defense against said dog, call your dog "family".
2)Read a second or third hand story about someone who stopped a dog attack with a bullet instead of their arm or leg,
3)Threaten to kill anyone who would defend themselves against a dog attack.
There are people who say “I’d die for my dog”.
In 1982, my then husband missed ship’s movement and we went back to Norfolk so he could take care of the problem.
We had to stay with a “friend” who lived above us because our old apartment had been rented to someone else.
We got there really late at night, too late to go to the base.
The “friend” called the MPs and they brought the Norfolk PD and VA state troopers to arrest him for being UA, because there was a $200 reward for doing so.
She also told them I had a “killer Doberman” with me.
So they come in like SWAT, handcuff him and a trooper puts me in a full nelson.
[why, I have no idea]
Meanwhile, that “killer Dobe” is watching all of this from the safety of a bedroom where I’d put him, through French doors.
Yes, he was a man-stopper but only IF I told him to be.
Otherwise, he just sat and watched.
So, for no effing good reason, a VA state boy speaks to the “friend” and I hear her say “Yeah, that’s the dog” and he said “I’ll take care of that”
He pulled out his weapon and pointed right at my poor dog, who was JUST SITTING THERE and was about to shoot him.
Fortunately, my prison guard dad taught me how to escape a full nelson and I threw my arms up, slithered out of the hold and simultaneously dove through the door and threw my own body across the dog’s, knocking him flat to the floor.
[this took mere seconds]
I heard some other man yell STOP!!! and the trooper lowered his gun.
I did not get up off that dog until they were gone.
Yes, I would have cheerfully taken the bullet for Tito and there was not even a fleeting thought about what I was going to do, while this was going down.
Gut reaction.
Save the dog.
NO MATTER WHAT.
And tonight, in the dense fog, a possum on the mountain zigged and then zagged and I hit it.
I feel like a murderer and can’t stop crying.
I tried to get it home to help it but it didn’t even make it for the 15 second run back to my car.
So right now, my soul hurts like hell and I can’t forgive myself.
This is how I’m built.
:(
I know. That’s why I’d prefer you didn’t get shot.
I’d prefer it too but my gut reactions are faster than my thoughts.
Is your dog bigger than a Yorkie? If yes, then do you let your dog run the neighborhood? If yes, then if the dog gets shot, that’s your fault.
Our dogs have the run of our ranch and we’re in Wyoming.
Anyone who comes on our ranch and who shoots our dogs will themselves be shot.
Anyone.
That’s different. That’s private property. And, yes, you’d be right, in that case.
From a dog/animal lover (our rescue dog is sleeping with her dolly next to me on the couch), you all are loyal, love dogs, & make the world a better place.
For the record, all of our dogs are rescues who were abandoned along US 14 and who wandered onto the ranch and wanted a home.
A couple of them are absolutely lovely critters with charming personalities and I am endlessly appalled at whoever abandoned them in an area rife with predators.
“You did just declare yourself a threat to anyone who would shoot your dog.”
Allow me to clarify: It is two miles from the main road to our house on our gated private road.
Anyone who approaches our house without our permission will have at least one firearm aimed at them and if they show even an inkling of hostile intent (such as drawing or reaching for a firearm) they will be shot.
If someone drives those same two miles and shoot one of our dogs we’re going to shoot that person quite a bit before they get fed to the hogs.
Welcome to Wyoming where we don’t have to get shot at before we respond to a threat.
I hope that clarification helps.
“And, is the agent that Muslim looking guy in the Post’s photo? Just saying.”
No. He is the owner.
I was on the local humane society board for 10 years and the stories we heard & saw would cut thru your heart. I could never love any ma if they were not an animal lover. Luckily my husband loves them too. Your dogs are so lucky to have you!
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