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Anchorage man kills neighbor's Chihuahua with shotgun(AK)
adn.com ^ | 19 March, 2010 | JAMES HALPIN

Posted on 03/26/2010 6:01:30 PM PDT by marktwain

A long-standing neighborhood conflict over roaming dogs escalated when a 74-year-old man fired a shotgun out a window of his home, killing a loose Chihuahua and landing himself in jail on criminal charges, according to police.

Lowell Mueller was charged with reckless endangerment, cruelty to animals and fourth-degree misconduct with a weapon, according to police. He was arrested and later released on $500 bail with the condition that he not possess any firearms, police said.

The shooting Sunday afternoon grew out of previous encounters involving the 8-pound male dog and an insurmountably larger female he couldn't seem to resist in the neighborhood off Lore Road and Lake Otis Parkway.

"You hear about people shooting Rottweilers. You hear about people shooting pit bulls. Even police officers (shooting dogs) when the dog is attacking. I've never heard of anybody shooting a Chihuahua," said John Glasgow, one of the dog's owners. "It just hurt me very deeply when this happened. I just don't understand the sense behind shooting the dog."

The 10-year-old Chihuahua, Faux Pas, was apparently attracted to Mueller's own dog, which was in heat, Glasgow said. Mueller's dog was in a fenced dog run in the yard, which itself is not fenced.

Faux Pas made a fatal misstep when he approached Mueller's property on Zurich Street, according to police.

Mueller leveled a semiautomatic .410-bore shotgun loaded with bird shot out an opened window and shot the animal on the street at a corner of his property, police Lt. Dave Parker said. Faux Pas was about 20 feet away from the window.

Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/03/18/1190035/anchorage-man-kills-neighbors.html#ixzz0jKmfN7BB

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
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To: tarheelswamprat

The Remington 1100 and 11-48 have been made in .410. A number of pumps, Browning BPS, Remington 870, Mossberg 500 and Winchester 42 exist. The doubles, both O/U and SxS are very numerous.

It’s a great gauge, I routinely break 90+ with it at Skeet.


21 posted on 03/26/2010 6:17:08 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: marktwain

Aw hell, that’s barely a shotgun.


22 posted on 03/26/2010 6:17:26 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: marktwain
...when a 74-year-old man fired a shotgun out a window of his home...

Give the guy a break. Deer season was over.

23 posted on 03/26/2010 6:17:33 PM PDT by Nachoman (Think of life as an adventure you don't survive.)
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To: cripplecreek
Aw hell, that’s barely a shotgun.

I beat a guy with a 12 gauge Perazzi at trap with a .410 from the 18 yard line.

24 posted on 03/26/2010 6:18:46 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: PowderMonkey

Very likely he simply did not think the dog would be killed, only stung. A number of people use bird shot to discourage bears, but the shots are usually from a much further distance, and a bear has much tougher fur, hide, and fat than a chihuahua.

A lot of people have little practical experience with ballistics.


25 posted on 03/26/2010 6:18:56 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Get outta my lawn you damn Chihuahua!!!!


26 posted on 03/26/2010 6:21:00 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: pissant

Yeah, but not a big medal since he only got one of them.


27 posted on 03/26/2010 6:21:17 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I didn’t say it isn’t a good gun. In fact I think they should be far more common. I used to hunt squirrels with an old single shot .410. That was a beautiful learners gun too. Your basic point and click interface.


28 posted on 03/26/2010 6:21:43 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: marktwain

Shotgun ballistics are sometimes confusing to rifle and pistol shooters.

If we use target loads as an example, all of them regardless of gauge, propel the shot at 1150 to 1250 feet per second. The difference is that the shot charge varies from 1 1/8th ounce for a 12 gauge to 1/2 ounce for the .410. Terminal energy of the pellet is no different.


29 posted on 03/26/2010 6:21:48 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: marktwain

I’ve got a feeling that the commie ‘RATS and their toadies in the “media” are going to try to pin this on Sarah Palin.


30 posted on 03/26/2010 6:22:44 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We've got an expanding, fat porker government demanding that WE get skinny! I don't get it!)
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To: marktwain

I’ll bet he was tired of stepping in Chui crap.


31 posted on 03/26/2010 6:24:05 PM PDT by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!(FR #1690))
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To: HiTech RedNeck
You think the little guy would have managed to impregnate the female several times his size?

Humans seem to make it work.

32 posted on 03/26/2010 6:24:33 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: cripplecreek

The problem is that they’re usually choked too tight so the pattern doesn’t develop in a reasonable range, and that screws up beginners who don’t have the skills to maximize a shot charge that’s less than 1/2 of a 12 gauge.

My favorite gun is a Winchester 101 O/U choked SK/SK that absolutely chews them up on the skeet field.


33 posted on 03/26/2010 6:25:06 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: marktwain

Yea........i suppose....


34 posted on 03/26/2010 6:26:54 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: marktwain
Anchorage man kills neighbor's Chihuahua with shotgun(AK)


35 posted on 03/26/2010 6:27:55 PM PDT by gitmo ( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
“The difference is that the shot charge varies from 1 1/8th ounce for a 12 gauge to 1/2 ounce for the .410. Terminal energy of the pellet is no different.”

Exactly so. Well said.

36 posted on 03/26/2010 6:30:57 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain; null and void; Jeremiah Jr
The 10-year-old Chihuahua, Faux Pas, was apparently attracted to Mueller's own dog

He chose... poorly.

37 posted on 03/26/2010 6:31:24 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: marktwain

Something that really stuck with me as a kid was the story of this cool guy actor on the set of some tv show in the early 80’s.
He put what was some stage prop type pistol to his head as a big joke, pulled the trigger and killed himself.
Big joke.

Anyways i learned that you don’t ever point a weapon at anything you don’t want to hurt.


38 posted on 03/26/2010 6:32:27 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Ezekiel
“The 10-year-old Chihuahua, Faux Pas, was apparently attracted to Mueller's own dog

He chose... poorly.”

If the bitch was in heat, there was probably little “choice” involved. I think it is more like a chemical reaction.

39 posted on 03/26/2010 6:33:33 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: johniegrad

No reason whatsoever to have a Chihuahua in Alaska.


40 posted on 03/26/2010 6:34:57 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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