Stay safe !
Posted on 09/28/2004 6:07:18 PM PDT by SLB
Someone shot one of our dogs this afternoon. She is a tri-color beagle who is the greatest escape artist from our yard we have seen. She will find any crack in the fence and wiggle out. She did so this afternoon and someone took a shot at her with a BB gun. Not too powerful you say? I have the vet bill and x-ray to show you a BB lodged in her back next to her spine. No surgery to remove it, just some anti-biotic to keep the infection down.
Who did it? One neighbor is retired and feeds the birds. He wouldn't do it, as he has a squirrel problem the dogs like to take care of for him. My suspect is the tree hugger across the creek with the Kerry/Edwards sign in his yard. He is probably the biggest grump in the area, always complaining about kids cutting through his yard. Not going to report it to the police, at this time anyway. All they do is ask too many questions and never solve anything.
That's too bad. Some people are just downright mean.
What is your spin? Do we go to the local law? Some took a shot at our above ground pool a couple of years ago.
Have you tried a dog run?
Look I'm not condoning some A-hole taking a pot-shot at your beloved beagle (I'm a hopeless dog lover) but really the responsibility falls on you not to let your canine run loose.
Nelly (the beagle) is eating up the attention the kids are giving her this evening. We had roast beast (beef) for dinner and she got a better cut than I did. She is now snoozing on the floor in front of Hanity and Combs getting her dose of Fox News.
Why don't you CONTROL YOUR DOG. Problem solved.
I would report it to the police.
And I fully accept the responsibility. We have more than one dog and a very large fenced in yard so they have plenty of room to run. She just likes the grass on the other side of the fence. We used to have an electronic fence, but she was so afraid of getting shocked she would not go outside, so we took it down. Guess we need to put it back into operation. Better to have her shocked than shot.
((((((Nelly)))))
Sorry your Nelly was shot...I know she's getting all the TLC she needs!
Our precious puppy was also a great escape artist, not matter what we would do he would find a way to get out.
A silly solution I heard about recently was to tie one end of long rope to the collar and an empty milk jug to the other end. Even if the dog gets out, he can't go far.
Hope your puppy recovers quickly and the shooter gets boils on his butt!!
Stay safe !
Maybe, but that doesn't give someone the right to shoot it necessarily. There may also be laws against discharging a weapon in city limits. Heck, here you can't even fire a slingshot legally.
So someone may have broken a law by shooting the animal. Are there leash laws there? I dunno.
That's creative problem-solving! One thing though, make sure the rope is long enough so that if the dog jumps the fence it doesn't hang itself.
Har! You called the cavalry at #3. Poor guy's house will be burned down, his children taken as yours and his yard plowed up and salted.
Not to sound mean, I am a bigtime pet lover and owner. But when a strange dog meanders into my yard and doesnt leave and acts like he wants to bite, I wont hesitate for a minute to pelt him with a BB gun. I have lost two priceless persian cats to wandering dogs. I have 7 dogs,3 cats, 1 pot bellied pig, 1 macaw(used to have two, one died two weeks ago), 11 snakes and 5 turtles and not a single one of them have ever escaped my yard, some have escaped there cages like the snakes though.
"But when a strange dog meanders into my yard and doesnt leave and acts like he wants to bite, I wont hesitate for a minute to pelt him with a BB gun."
I've heard that spraying a dog with a water hose gets them to go away.
Surely there are other ways besides having to shoot them. Try a fog horn, anything....
some teenager who thinks it's funny to take pot shots with his BB gun?
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