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Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / March 2006Family Pets Found Killed In Cold Blood Police May Have Suspect
From news story that can be found at http://www.wnem.com/Global/story.asp?S=4369106 (TV5) -- Police are hot on the trail of the dog killer. Investigators say they believe they know who is responsible for the shootings. They say the adult male suspect may have killed at least three family dogs and he will likely face charges for the grief he's caused. Dogs have turned up missing in an Argentine Township (In Michigan) for a few months and now three of them turned up dead in the same vicinity with similar wounds. Now police and neighbors are wondering who killed their dogs and whether there may be more victims. Missing pet posters started appearing all around town near Thanksgiving. Pictures of Shelby, Barkley and Lexie even made their way to the Argentine Township Police Department. The owners hoping their dogs simply lost their way home but the dogs never returned instead all three Barkely, Lexie, and Shelby turned up shot to death in a swampy area near a neighbors yard. Each suffered a high powered rifle bullet would to the head or shoulder area. Shelby's owner says he found her with her paws tied together, helpless, not far from where he lives on Seymour Road. > From news story that can be found at > http://www.wnem.com/Global/story.asp?S=4369106 [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > owner says he found her with her paws tied together, helpless, not far > from where he lives on Seymour Road. Wonder why the owners didn't keep their dogs at home? At least it sounds like a quick death, and they didn't suffer. Where are the dog owners accountability in all this? > Wonder why the owners didn't keep their dogs at home? At least it sounds > like a quick death, and they didn't suffer. Where are the dog owners > accountability in all this? While it would have been a wiser decision to keep their animals under close supervision, there is no freaking way the pet owner should be _accountable_ for someone else's cruelty. >> Wonder why the owners didn't keep their dogs at home? At least it sounds >> like a quick death, and they didn't suffer. Where are the dog owners [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >supervision, there is no freaking way the pet owner should be _accountable_ >for someone else's cruelty. Sure blame the owners!! The people that did it are not responsible. That is the way people seem to think today. Nobody is responsible for their actions anymore!!! That is why the world is in the shape it is now-days!!! >>> Wonder why the owners didn't keep their dogs at home? At least it >>> sounds like a quick death, and they didn't suffer. Where are the dog [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > their actions anymore!!! That is why the world is in the shape it is > now-days!!! I just asked. But unless that person stole the dogs out of the owners yard, there IS some culpability on the part of the owners. What ever happened to leash laws and keeping your dogs at home? Dogs here are routinely shot for chasing wildlife/deer/calves/sheep etc. If a dog runs loose, farmers shoot them. Then they report their loss to the dog warden, who then tracks down the dog's owner if possible. And fines the owner, both for having the dog running at large, and for damages. I know I certainly keep my dogs at home, because I know if they ran at large, they would certainly be shot by area farmers. If that happened, I would be apologizing to them, as well as rubbing my wounds over the loss of my dogs. I would have no one to blame but myself. If you love your pet, you keep them home! If these dogs were taken from their homes, and transported away and shot, that's a whole nother ballgame! What you didn't offer was the whole story or enough information. The part where the dog's legs were tied together was certainly suspicious. But you only gave a part of the story! Poor sensational reporting. >>>> Wonder why the owners didn't keep their dogs at home? At least it >>>> sounds like a quick death, and they didn't suffer. Where are the dog [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >yard, there IS some culpability on the part of the owners. What ever >happened to leash laws and keeping your dogs at home? Most places around here in Michigan (Which is where the incident happened) have no leash laws which I wish they did. We have more dogs running loose around here then "Carters has liver pills"!!! >... If you love your pet, you keep them home! IMHO, it can't be expressed more honestly, factually or any simpler than that. Leash laws and maniacs aside, the world is just too dangerous to allow pets to roam freely. There are probably some folks who consider this dog killer a genuine problem solver. Regardless of anything else, we have a responsibility to protect the animals in our care. It baffles me that some folks put forth so much effort to protect inanimate objects, yet allow their animals (and very often their own children) to run at large. A dog's life is too short; their only fault really. >>... If you love your pet, you keep them home! > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > A dog's life is too short; their only fault really. Yep, you can add politics, you can add all the excuses and dressings, finger pointing and blame, expectations/fairy tales, but it all boils down to accountability. When it's all said and done, the safety of your beloved pet centers around the person who loves them, protecting their well being. If you find them disposable, then you find excuses to allow for lapses in their well being, considering them tradeoffs and risk allowances. If you love your pet, and find those risks unacceptable, then you keep them home. It's just that simple. > >... If you love your pet, you keep them home! > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > It baffles me that some folks put forth so much effort to protect inanimate objects, yet > allow their animals (and very often their own children) to run at large. Well said! jw > A dog's life is too short; their only fault really. In the same line of thought, we as pet owners/companions are responsible for our pets whether we let them outside in our yard at 2am and they start barking or they get out the door or theyard. WE are repsonsible for their wellbeing! >> >... If you love your pet, you keep them home! >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >> A dog's life is too short; their only fault really. > In the same line of thought, we as pet owners/companions are > responsible for our pets whether we let them outside in our yard at > 2am and they start barking or they get out the door or theyard. WE are > repsonsible for their wellbeing! You are right. I live in the country, with no neighbors close, but barking carries for miles. I make sure my neighbors, no matter how far, have their peace and quiet broken by my dogs. > I make sure my neighbors, no matter how far, have their peace and quiet > broken by my dogs. I have a neighbor like that...  SignatureJohn Hasler john@dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA >> I make sure my neighbors, no matter how far, have their peace and quiet >> broken by my dogs. > > I have a neighbor like that... oops.... I mean don't Sorry bout your neighbor! > oops.... > I mean don't We figured thats what you meant :-) But it sure was funny! Papa |
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