Where there any cops in the neighborhood that day?
If it is farm and ranch country then these people should know better than to let a pack of dogs...even Golden Retrievers...run loose. When we lived in California our ranch there was about five miles outside of Lincoln and a few years back we started having dog problems from city people moving out to the country and then letting their dogs out for a run.
All dogs, from chihuahuas to Rottweilers, find it to be great fun to chase cattle. What isn’t fun is finding a pack of dogs chasing your prize bull and causing him to break a leg.
After that whenever we saw dogs on the ranch the dogs got treated to hollow points. California law explicitly allows this.
Now we’re in another state and we still get the occasional dog on the property chasing the cattle and the response is the same. What is really terrible in my opinion is letting your dog loose in an area where there’s bears, coyotes, and wolves that will hunt down and eat dogs alive.
In this case the corpse of the dog was on the person’s property, but that does not tell the whole story. Had it been off the property causing problems? If it was out loose and unsupervised then this is a real possibility. Given that this took place in Maryland, which isn’t exactly friendly to country people or gun owners, I can appreciate someone just shooting a problem dog and being done with it.
The best advice I have for this person is to not let their dogs out loose and unsupervised. That, or make sure their fence line is tall enough and secure enough to keep the dogs on their own property and then I bet there won’t be any more problems with the neighbors shooting the dogs.
Yea, so get this. Because some moron shot a dog, a local rat legislator is trying to make a animal abuse registry just like sexual predators. Get a grip.
We have shot and killed a few neighbors “pets” that were seen repeatedly attacking our animals and were warned to keep their animals under control. These former city dwelling neighbors tried to call the law on us for “murdering” their “family members” and were told by the deputy sheriff they were lucky we didn't have them arrested for our losses.
May not apply in this case... just saying these people may not be aware of what their animals are doing....
Is that you again, Chet99?
P.S.
You are very ill...mentally.
One of our rescue dogs was a fear barker. She had been abused and was afraid of men. So we got her a bark collar. When she barked it shocked her and made her even more afraid. Big mistake. We never used it again.
You know there was a “but”.
I have a friend who had a Golden and chickens. One day it was just the Golden and 13 dead chickens, in less than an hour.
I can start to see the other side, especially if it was an outside dog.
Keep your dog in a fenced yard or attached to you arm.
My friend is a farmer in Australia south of Sydney. His neighbors keep good care of their animals because when they go on his land and destroy his crops, he shoots them -whatever they be.
I’ve got a friend whose 7 pound dog was shot in her front yard. She had just let the 8 year old dog out to do its business, heard the shot and ran out to find the dead pet. They never found the expletives deleted who did this.
However, a pack of loose dogs is a disaster waiting to happen. If the dog was shot harassing livestock, it could have run back home after it was shot and then collapsed. Nobody knows in this case, but given the publicity I doubt the farmer would be interested in speaking up now.