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why didn't he fence his yard?

I've heard the above logic so many times. A man has a dog that roams on the land of other people. The dog kills livestock or damages the property of another. By your logic, each and EVERY individual harmed by that dog should build a fence (so many believe this). Why shouldn't the OWNER OF THE DOG be required to confine his animal on his land?

You must own a fencing company.

I want to reply although it has been a while since this thread has been started because I know this vet in person:
Someone stated this: "How can a dachsund be harmful to anyone?"... Well, maybe not to people, but certainly to baby rabits and chickens, a little dachsund = death.
I have known this vet for many years, I have stayed with their family several times when I was a student in college, he has treated my own dog and brought him back to health (I found my dog as a 4 wk old puppy in the middle of nowhere after someone roled him in hot asphalt) and after three weeks with this vet, he looked like a brand new dog.
I think he was dumb to do what he did, not because it is wrong, but because he should have been more careful knowing that this country is full of people that worship animals. It would have been in his advantage if he would have sent a formal written warning to the neighbor whose dog was tresspassing telling him exactly what would happen to his dog the next time he is caught in his yard... I'm sure he warned the guy before orally, but that's not something that can be proven unless there were other witnesses.
Someone also made a comment that he should have just wacked the dog with rolled newspapers or thrown water on it, but I can tell you he doesn't have time to stand guard in his backyard all day to train other people's dogs to leave his livestock alone. He is a very busy vet, has a family, children and several dogs (including a couple of dogs that he rescued from being abandoned by their owners because they were too damned sick and one had to have a leg amputated and the owner didn't want a three legged dog, so the vet kept him) So all the people who think this guy doesn't have a heart should shut their stupid mouths because they don't know the guy, and the media won't report the whole story because if it did, it wouldn't be sensational anymore.
Maybe he should have been more careful and maybe he shouldn't have killed the stupid dachsund, but I can tell you that he was probably fed up with having to worry about his animals and he doesn't have the time to stand guard in his backyard to teach other people's pets to stay away from his animals.

Anyway, I'm against cruel treatment of animals, but killing an animal is not necessarily cruel... torturing it is cruel.
Just wanted people to see the bigger picture before they condemn a man who saved thousands of pets from death and cares very much for animals.