“I’m curious, any Freepers here that would answer in favor of the dog?”
You’re kidding right? There have been thousands of posts by people threatening to kill any police officer/stranger/burglar who harmed their pet.
And many, many more posts of people calling for abusers of animals to be put to death.
There are many sick people on FR.
It is common throughout human history to kill a person if they deliberately kill your dog/horse/pig/cow/livestock/etc.
Dang, you are right. I was thinking it was a satirical question at first...but reading some of the replies. Scary.