Posted on 04/11/2017 10:54:59 PM PDT by 4Runner
Judge Valerie Stanfill said she didn’t believe Dakota’s new owner, Linda Janeski, had standing to ask that the original judgment that declared Dakota a dangerous dog, and ordered her destroyed within 48 hours, be withdrawn.
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Gov. Paul LePage granted a pardon to Dakota on March 30 after a member of the Humane Society’s board sent him a letter. His news release stated “the dog ought to be provided a full and free pardon.”
(Excerpt) Read more at centralmaine.com ...
...yet another ‘bloodthirsty’ female judge...
If I read it right, the dog in question has already killed one dog and attacked another at a different time & place. Sounds dangerous to me.
Apparently, neither the Governor of the State of Maine, nor the Humane Society, nor the ASPCA agree with your assessment.
It’s a frickin dog. Just don’t let Levin know about it, he’ll be sobbing on air for a week
If it were my dog that it came over to my property and killed that thing would be dead already.
“Apparently, neither the Governor of the State of Maine, nor the Humane Society, nor the ASPCA agree with your assessment.”
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Maybe not, but I suspect the owners of the pets this dog killed and attacked do.
Wickedness in the organs of government does what wickedness there will do.
We need to concentrate on the God who not only stops but avenges such wickedness, which is driven ultimately from the heart of hell. People only provide it accommodation.
Activist governor with no standing (civil court matter) trying to override a judges legitimate ruling.
https://www.animallaw.info/statute/me-dogs-consolidated-dog-laws#s3952
https://www.animallaw.info/statute/me-dogs-consolidated-dog-laws#s3907 (12-D)
Pet animal behavior is largely a factor of environment. This is a truth that will have to be taught to legislators because they have (in principle) the ultimate power to guide what happens to misbehaving pets.
A pet that killed may do quite well in a situation that differs materially from that in which it killed.
Legalities being whatever they are, people have a funny way of demanding morality.
“A pet that killed may do quite well in a situation that differs materially from that in which it killed.”
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In this case, the animal is a repeat offender.
I’m one the biggest animal lovers you’ll find around, but I’m also a realist. The only indicator we have of future actions is past actions.
Also, I’m for the death penalty for humans when they take a life so I extend that to other critters - unless an animal kills another animal in defense of itself or others.
About the only situation I could see a repeat offending animal in would be to let it go in the wild, into a literal “dog eat dog” natural surrounding (i.e. nature taking it’s course).
“Another “judge” disobeying a higher authority. What is with these “activist” judges who go off on their own to utterly disregard and defy the decision of a state governor (or a duly-elected president)?”
Can you cite the section of the State of Maine’s Constitution that provides the governor the power to grant pardons to dogs?
Or if it were my dog that killed another dog I think I would do the right thing and put it down. I love dogs dearly, but there's no place for dangerous dogs that kill other friendly pets.
Best I can tell, the judge is a dog hater. Dog haters shouldn’t sit in judgement in dog cases, just as gun haters shouldn’t sit in judgement of 2nd Amendment cases, and Klansmen shouldn’t sit in judgement of blacks.
Those agencies are ignoring the fact that the husky “got loose” and went to a neighbors house and killed the family dog. The husky’s owner was ordered to leash the dog. The husky then “got loose” again and went to the SAME neighbor’s house and attacked the NEW dog purchased to replace the one it killed previously.
Then the agencies say he’s a “model citizen” when he’s evaluated at an animal facility, and not a risk. Well apparently he’s not a risk when evaluated with staff present and properly contained. How much trauma and property loss does the neighbor have to put up with? Obviously the owner is not “able” to contain the dog and the dog is inclined to get loose and attack neighboring animals (territoriality not displayed at the animal facility because that’s not his territory).
Just about no one loves dogs more than me and if this dog that already killed one neighbors dog and attacked a second one was my dog; I would do the right thing and put it down.
Some dogs just have a real mean streak in them and are not fit to be around other animals or even people. Some get a taste of blood and that’s it; they never lose that killing desire like on a farm with chickens. Every farmer knows if they have a dog that killed even one chicken that dog sadly has to be put down. Country/farm dogs don’t do well in in a suburban environment so it’s merciful to put the dog down before it kills again and again. It’s the saddest thing but it’s a fact of life on farms.
I have 4 dogs and my neighbor has 3. We can’t let them come in contact through a chain link fence because it’s WWIII when they are. I can’t even imagine what would happen if they could actually get at each other. I’m working on a plan to put up a solid barrier of some kind in the back section they can see each other. Until then I don’t let my dogs back there.
Gov LePage should have state police collect the dog and turn it over to the woman who has custody, defying the judge, and instructing the state police to intervene should anyone claiming authority by the judge attempt to remove him from her.
The dog is a proven menace. It should be destroyed like any other pest animal.
I love animals.
That said, this sounds like a dangerous animal that needs to HUMANELY be put to sleep.
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