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.
Another meanie??
Have you done the complete CSI on the pellet, in terms of trajectories etc? If you can narrow it to the suspect neighbor, you can begin a psywar attack on him.
I love dogs. I have one sitting on my lap right now. And guess what? She never goes outside the house off the leash.
I still say there's no reason to shoot a dog (unless it's attacking someone).
There are plenty other ways to run it off your property. Hope you try the water hose on the next pup that might come along.
I don't use BB guns on pups. And by the time you get a hose and turn the water on, an unwelcome visiting dog will have done what it came to do. Get a stiffer backbone.
It's not a matter of backbone. What you are doing is just plain cruel.
Just yell and run the dog off.
Sorry about your hound. If your suspect is not guiltly, he ought to be. Odious commie.
That is mean. I don't think your beagle is packing with other neighbor dogs and hounding this man.
I many years ago had a black lab who loved to escape in my presence and go down half a mile to play with a couple of lil kids, they moved and super Libs moved in and my Lab terrorized them, it was a real problem so I could not allow my dog to be off leash at all.
If he or his family were not in any danger he was wrong to shoot your baby.
However I would put some restrictions on your dog and invest in fixing the fence.
That is what I did for the old now gone to heaven Labs and now for my new Lab Pups.
I know we can't be perfect on our dogs taking off but we do have a responsibility to keep it a rarity.
This woman and this was years ago came into my home I am a day sleeper and told me to get out of bed and talk to her. I called the local Sherriff and told them to tell her she does not legally have a right to do that, she should call the dog pound if my dog is harassing her due to escaping.
Then a couple of months go by and she comes walking by with her new tea cup pup and my other lab who was standing at my mail box with me off leash which I had no prior exp. of him ever leaving my side bolted and went for her dog. Shoot.
So she called the Sherriff and wanted to take us to Court I pleaded my dog guilty and that was the last of it.
I learned never to take my boys off leash ever again when off my property.
They targeted this woman for sure they did not like her. Yet I am responsible for my kids being bullies.
So I have spent the buck to escape proof the fence and have not had a problem in years. Many times a day I hang out with the new babies on my property but if they do not listen to me as they age they too will be on leash to stay out of trouble.
That lib lady to this day gives me dirty looks in public. I just smile it's time to get over it after all these years.
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I used to have cats. Not for many years though and have had a few come home needing nursing after punks decided to do the BB gun on the cat thing.
BTW I am having anxiety with all the quakes and my 5month old Lab pup sleeps in his crate in our room when I go to sleep at around this time.
He hates it, always has unless it is the crate in the van, they are cage type. My 10 month old used the crate early on too and loved it too this day will go in it to take naps after I let the youngest out at 7am.
Well tonight my 5mo old has been jumping up trying to get in my bed and also my sons (we share a room due to his around the clock medical care needs) and crying. I just put him in his crate and he went to sleep no problem but the behaviour has been out of charactor. He has skin allergies so is not in to the cuddly love stuff.
He is a vocal cry baby always has been since the ride home from the breeder the day we brought him home. However this trying to jump up on our beds and crying is not his independant,stubborn,tyrant personality.
So I am thinking Earthquake? Anyone else out there having unusual doggie behaviour right now?
We are on the Central Oregon Coast.
BTW My other two Labs are doing their normal routine.
Yes I am anxious. Maybe time for lights out.
A lot of people think BB guns merely sting when the pellet hits and that's true most of the time.
It's those few times when it's not true that makes it cruel.
For the last 6 weeks we've had a large stray black dog coming around. We have a rat terrier-benjii mutt mix that we take outside on a leash since we don't have a backyard fence. Both of us have had surgery this summer so we're not in the best of shape in case the dogs were to get into it.
At first I thought the stray was a nursing female because I really thought I had seen her teats while I was looking out the window one day. I didn't want to call animal control because if she had puppies, I thought they'd die if she wasn't there to feed them.
For about a week we didn't see the stray so we decided maybe someone else had called animal control. The dog showed back up Monday and couldn't use the back right leg. I knew then I had to call Animal Control.
While waiting on Animal Control I decided I'd feed the dog some dry dog food. Turns out she was a he. He wolfed it all down. I then fed it 3 cans of Pedigree dog food, one can at a time and he wolfed all of those down.
I knew I could safely approach the dog because of the injury and also where he had holed up. That's the reason I initially decided to go ahead and feed him some dry food. Once I laid the plastic dish down I noticed the dog had gray hair on his snout and was also blind in one eye because of a cataract. We're a small town and there's no money in the budget to fix the dog's injuries so I knew he wouldn't be offered for adoption.
When the Animal Control officers came to pick him up, after they got the collar (used a pole collar) on him they looked at his leg. Someone had shot him with a BB gun and the wound had festered.
I'm sure if this dog had been someone's pet and had been shot with a BB gun the Vet could have removed the pellet easily and sent him home with some antibiotics.
I felt badly (still do) about calling Animal Control but I am not in a position to adopt a big dog at this time. No backyard fence, recovering from surgery, already have 2 cats and my dog, unknown character of the stray and several other reasons.
Where I'm really pissed off is at the people that abandoned that poor dog.
What kind of moron thinks it's entertaining to hurt a loose dog? That wasn't your normal Red Ryder BB gun either, cause they don't penetrate flesh. Someone has a BB gun they know will penetrate. I'd call the police.
I agree the bb gun is not a good thing unless the dog is charging like pit bulls have reps for attacking.
When the local dogs usually Labs too show up in my yard I load them up and take them home if their parents do not show up in a reasonable amount of time.
I would never call the dog pound for visiting pets, I am a doggie mama and feel it is better to take the visiting canines back to their owners or keep an eye out for someone looking for thier pet if I don''t know the dog.
The Labs that come over only do it once in a great while.
One day I had two on I was babysitting for a neighbor and another whose owner had to get going that morning on a charter boat he owns so his big Choc Lab slept in my backyard all day under the deck. GO figure.
I find it special that dogs show up at our place when they get out. We have a busy bay road that people speed on down below and I would rather they hang out at my place then be on that bay road and cause an accident or get hit.
But the Lib neihgbor, we live acres apart around here coming into my home and coming to my bed and waking me up cause she was pissed was not appropriate.
Oh well maybe that is why I would rather have dogs visiting.
I only wish the stray had been someone's missing pet. Even the first time we saw the dog, we could tell it didn't belong to anyone. He didn't really want to have anything to do with people. It's not that he was skittish, he'd just trot away when he saw you. He also was very thin. No collar either.
I have a sun room I can close off from the rest of the house. There have been several dogs that have taken up residence in my sunroom while I run down their owners.
Normally if I can approach the dog and it has a collar with a tag I'll take the dog in temporarily. I remember one Wednesday night I did this with a cocker. I called the vet's office and got the receptionist who was at our local Baptist Church. As soon as Church was over, she went to the office and got the name/address/phone number of the cocker's owner. I called them and they came to get their doggy.
I agree with you about having anyone coming into my home and up to my bed!
From comments and FReep mail it looks like the majority recommend contacting the local PD. I am off from work on Friday so will take the x-ray and head down to the local PD and have a chat with them. I will also put the electronic fence back into operation, better to have her shocked than shot. Will also let a neighbor who is a state trooper and a dog lover know what happened, maybe he can keep an eye out as he works late nights and is around the house in the evenings when this happened.
Sounds like a good plan.
Here in Oregon in a Portland someone was poisoning dogs at Laurelhurst Park that was about a year ago it stopped then just this last month in Astoria which is the coast a feww hours west of Portland Dogs were being poisened on the beach.
Common link was the poison was paraquat in both cases a controlled herbaside. Somebody does not like dogs and is one sick bastard.
Neighbor kid came over to my fence and lowered his pump bb gun at my dog, who was fenced in. He fired, I called police because he was a minor (nothing I could do) and his parents won't take care of it (this has gone on for a long time). In some cases, laws protect, even in the case of a bb gun. I have also had this kid taking target practice at my place and other homes in the area. Had his pellets whiz by my head on several occasions. What would you do? No fair assuming anything other than having Daytona cops, 'k?
Turtles? :)
We have one, too!
A really great snapping turtle named "Shelly".
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