Posted on 06/10/2010 11:28:10 PM PDT by Chet 99
A Salem man was arrested for killing a rabbit. He didn't actually kill the bunny with his hands. His dog did....in front of four little girls.
It happened May 27 in a city park. According to the paper, the girls were at the park with their families during a lacrosse game, when they went to a wooded area to look for bunnies. While they were watching one hop around, a man drove up with his unleashed Doberman pinscher.
The man apparently went over to where the girls were watching the rabbit and told the dog to “get it.” He laughed when the dog grabbed the rabbit and terrified the girls, who started to cry.
The man called the dog off, but then told him to "get it" once more, so the dog grabbed the stunned rabbit and killed it.
The suspect Luke Kishpaugh, who's 33. He's been jailed on allegations of aggravated animal abuse and has been barred from Salem parks.
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What a creep.
You want this guy to go to jail for a few years and to be raped because he let his dog kill a rabbit? Seems a bit draconian, don’t ya think BigD? People have been hunting rabbits with dogs, hawks, and falcons for many centuries. We shoot them, we trap them, we eat them and we wear their fur because they’re rabbits and that’s what they’re for. I think this guy got a raw deal and, had he a better lawyer, we never would have heard a word about it.
Sick SOB!...
I’m not a fan of PETA types but my feeling is the man hurt the girls in some way. Dogs do kill rabbits but it seems the man was interested more in distressing the children.
I don’t know what catagory of crime that would fall under, but it is wrong to terrify children purposely.
More like child abuse.
Maybe, maybe not. There are certainly two sides to every story. this article seemed to tell only one side though. furthermore, it still sounds like a bunch of bunny loving peta nonsense to me. When my dog kills a bunny, she gets a cookie.
I dont excuse evil.
this from someone who wants to see a man spend the next several years being sodomized in a prison cell over a dead rabbit.
Save your bleeding heart and weeping for some one else.
again, this from someone crying about a dead rabbit.
I used to do it in my youth (and I regret it, both for the cruelty to the mice, and also because it subjects the snake to the risk of serious, even fatal, injury).
I once had a snake that came very close to losing an eye because of a bite from a mouse, that somehow managed to get in one last bite before suffocating. It left a bad scar on the snake's head.
I was justifiably chastised by my eighth-grade science teacher (who was an experienced snake owner) for feeding my snakes live prey. He had plenty of horror stories about snakes being injured in this way. There's just no reason for it.
I don't know where you live, but most pet stores today sell frozen euthanized mice and rats of all sizes as reptile food. My daughter and I have used them for the five years we've had our snake. It's much more humane, and much safer.
BTW, here's a five-year old pic of my daughter when she first got her snake:
Our kids used to oo and ahh at the “cute little baby groundhogs” that roamed (past tense) our yard.
The kids went out to weed and pick vegetables in the garden one morning only to discovery most of the plants damaged and/or eaten. Two months of planting, weeding and tending wasted. The gardens is fenced, but the baby groundhogs could fit through the 2x3” openings in the wire mesh.
The groundhogs were instantly transformed from “cute” to “stupid,” and there were no tears shed when they were sent to the great garden in the sky.
Greetings! -From the non-Disney approved real world
Then, theres the Elmer Fudd thing going on...
I have no problem at all with hunting and eating rabbits - I've done it many times in appropriate areas. This is entirely different. This was a city park, in front of children who were there to watch the bunnies, and it sounds like it was done out of general creepiness and not out of a desire for stew. Sorry, but because of the context he'll get no sympathy from me.
Beagles may be bred as rabbit dogs, but my first dog, which I got when I was 16, and was a pure bred beagle, had little interst in chasing rabbits. When we were out in the back yard with him and he spotted a rabbit, we’d often let him go to chase it. The chase never lasted more than about 100 feet, then he’d lose interest and go to sniff something. Fortunately, we got him as a friend and pet, not a rabbit chaser, so it didn’t do any harm,.
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