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.
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“He put what was some stage prop type pistol to his head as a big joke, pulled the trigger and killed himself.
Big joke.”
Yes, there have been a couple of those. The actors thought that a “blank” round would be harmless, but the wad from a “blank” at pointblank range, is deadly.
Well still, why didn’t he keep the she-dog enclosed. The next time it might not be a Chihuahua on the loose, it might be a he-wolf.
Death by concussion rather than penetration.
As i’m thinking of the life of a Chihuahua in Alaska it’s got me wondering when the fed Government will eventually mandate pet health insurance.
To me this seems only like a natural progression of our recent current events.
Use your imagination! They have to feed the wolves,bears,mountain lions, bobcats, hawks, eagles, owls, and wolverines somehow!
On a more serious note, some people would say there is no reason to have a orchid in Alaska either, but it is a free country, and Alaska is one of the freeest states that we have left.
This is a problem, why?
The actor you’re thinking of is Jon-Erik Hexum odf the 80’s TV-shows “Voyagers”.
From IMBD:
“However, on October 12th, 1984 after a long and draining day’s shooting on the set of Cover Up (1984) (TV), Hexum became bored with the extensive delays and jokingly put a prop .44 magnum revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger. The gun fired, and the wadding from the blank cartridge shattered his skull, whereupon the mortally injured Hexum was rushed via ambulance to hospital to undergo extensive surgery. Despite five hours of work, the chief surgeon Dr David Ditsworth, described the damage to Hexum’s brain as life ending, and one week later on October 18th, he was taken off life support and pronounced dead. However, Hexum’s commitment to organ donation, meant five other lives were assisted or saved with organs harvested from him. The youthful & charming Hexum was dead at only 26 years of age.”
Unfortunately, you are all too correct. We must continue to work hard to restore the Constitution.
Did the chihuahua actually trespass on to this guy’s property? If it did, doesn’t the property owner have the right to shoot any animal on his property that strays on to it?
~ Captain "Kaboom" Obvious
We already have it for our Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. We lost one cocker spaniel to breast cancer and another to a heart condition. Treating them was outrageously expensive. Cavaliers are prone to a few genetic diseases and the insurance will cover them if they develop anything.
Sarah Palin’s fault. She obviously incited the man to violence against an innocent undocumented immigrant puppy.
- JP
A sad story and a person considered the first Darwin Award winner was the genius behind the band Chicago, Terry Kath.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Kath
Yup, That him.
I remember that show, It was one of the first “Flashy” cop shows that we’ve been subjected to ever since.
In an early formative age, I thought I could stun small birds by loading my slingshot with a dried bean. I took a shot at a sparrow, and it dropped like a rock. Expecting to find a stunned bird, I was very surprised to find a dead one.
Again? This guy just did the same thing the other day!
As a kid i took a shot at a bird with my buddy’s kick ass expensive Marlin pellet gun and watched it fall.
I thought it was dead then discovered it flopping around.
It was a cool looking bird that was unusual for my neighborhood.
After that i lost my taste for shooting things alive.
Cute? They’re ugly and yappy. (But I would never hurt one.)
Never know. Might just get yourself a hankering for some fresh Mexican food.
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