Who cares about some worthless chickens? Anyone who,would shoot a dog for killing chickens is a psycho. If you can’t handle a dog, rehome it. Animal abusers are subhumans.
I’m still grieving for my precious Blue Heeler who I was forced to euthanize on April 1. He was struck by my neighbor’s father in law’s SUV and suffered grievous injuries. I’ve always had a good relationship with the aforementioned neighbors, but I feel some resentment because the father in law hasn’t called to apologize, and the neighbors didn’t seem too concerned.
My point is that, to many people, dogs are family. One can always replace chickens. Noem could have found a new home for the dog or taken it to a shelter. Instead, she chose the most cruel option.
Noem is an idiot.
You are not completely correct. She made a personal decision based on what she was presented with at the time.
Many farm people like their animals, they might even say they love some of them.
But I have witnessed moral rural people accept the death of a cat or dog.
In one example, I knew a guy out West who favored one little cat out of the many they keep to control mice.
Another dominant cat was coming around and attacking that cat.
He decided that if the cat did it one more time, it was getting shot.
It happened again, and he took out his rifle and shot the offending cat.
Did he shock me with that story? Yeah. Did he make a decision of how to control the animal situation at his farm? yes.
Maybe you think he’s evil and maybe he just made his own decision as humans do every day with problem animals.
He should have caught the cat and brought it to a shelter, where btw they would have killed it. OK
Your story is quite emotional and your feelings are correct.
She did not view this dog as family, or if she did, she accepted that the animal members of her “family” can meet this fate if they exhibit a dangerous temperament.
Every dog is not your loveable dog.
I recall as a kid we often had litters of kittens in the house. Most were great and I remember them all fondly.
Ocassionaly one was just crazy, constantly hyper and biting and scratching.
I feel sorry for the kitten and I truly don’t remember what happened with it. But if we brought it to a shelter for sure they euthanized it.
At that point you recognize a different dividing line when dealing with animal life versus human life.
We don’t bring humans to vets to be injected or gassed in the same situations in which an animal will be killed.
Maybe she was rash or stupid, but she wasn’t evil.
Under what circumstances did the FIL strike the dog with his SUV?
Did the FIL drive onto your property? Or, did the dog get out of the yard?