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Somebody explain this to me
First of all, I love dogs (most of the friendly ones anyway) and have
had dogs myself, but this..... A woman has irresponsible neighbors who let their dogs run unrestrained as a day-to-day practice onto her property. After lodging 45 complaints to local animal control and police over a three-year period, with apparently no results, she decides to go the poison route. One dog dies and she's facing a felony animal cruelty charge! Of course, the situation would be different if she'd killed the dog OFF of her property. I agree that poisoning ain't a nice way to die, but what's next, a ban on HotShot and Raid? Are you gonna tell me that insects don't feel discomfort when dying from Raid? Ever watched a cockroach writhing in agony on its back after being poisoned by bug spray? On my condo property, a while back the powers that be decided to put out little lures which were to catch and poison "rodents" (squirrels and chipmunks). I was tempted to pick these traps up and toss them because I'm not too keen on poisoning these critters, but I don't think they caught many, or any, as we apparently have smart chipmunks around here, but the point is, why is putting out these traps not considered also a felony? A dog running onto a person's property can be far more annoying (and dangerous) than a cockroach or silverfish visiting. They can attack kids and other animals, not to mention get into trash cans and **** all over your lawn. I just don't get it. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met.../0720dogs.html ----- Kill ratio of Palestinian children to Israeli children 5.7-to-1, Israel's favor. Kill ratio of all Palestinians to Israelis: over 3-to-1. --------- http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html ---------- "Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." ---Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 2001 -- Cliff |
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1) Dogs are cuter than rodents and bugs
2) I don't know of anyone who has a pet cockroach |
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In article .com,
wrote: First of all, I love dogs (most of the friendly ones anyway) and have had dogs myself, but this..... Dogs are considered personal property. It is not okay to kill someone's pet in this manner. I don't know how you can compare a pet to a cockroach. Dimitri |
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D. Gerasimatos wrote: Dogs are considered personal property. It is not okay to kill someone's pet in this manner. I don't know how you can compare a pet to a cockroach. Animals kept as pets are slightly above personal property. For instance, if I took my lawnmower out on the front lawn and smashed it to pieces with a slegehammer I might get a few odd looks. If I did that to my dogs... |
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Amy Likes Pot! wrote: First of all, if someone poisoned my dog I would take revenge and it would be SERIOUS! Second, how did she poison the dogs? Did she hand feed the poison or did she leave something out for them to eat? Little kids like to put things in their mouths or even just handle them. Any poison that can kill a dog can at the least make a child VERY sick. What if she inadvertantly poisoned a small child (hell, I think they are WAY more annoying than dogs!)? http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met.../0720dogs.html I provided a link to the article for you to read. These responses are all likely from problem dog owners, from what I can see. NOT ONE of you addresses the issue of keeping your dog OFF OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY, especially if they don't want your roaming dog on it, and this woman obviously didn't. And since you seem to be so concerned with kids, how do you feel when a strange dog, owned by *irresponsible* dog owners like you, comes onto your property and attacks the child? Huh? But I see, you would "take revenge" and it would be "SERIOUS." LOL. I thought an adult or two might respond. I was wrong. ----- Kill ratio of Palestinian children to Israeli children 5.7-to-1, Israel's favor. Kill ratio of all Palestinians to Israelis: over 3-to-1. --------- http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html ---------- "Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." ---Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 2001 -- Cliff |
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"McGyver" wrote in message news:ZsOvg.14169$rT6.6091@trnddc03... wrote in message oups.com... First of all, I love dogs (most of the friendly ones anyway) and have had dogs myself, but this..... A woman has irresponsible neighbors who let their dogs run unrestrained as a day-to-day practice onto her property. After lodging 45 complaints to local animal control and police over a three-year period, with apparently no results, she decides to go the poison route. One dog dies and she's facing a felony animal cruelty charge! Of course, the situation would be different if she'd killed the dog OFF of her property. I agree that poisoning ain't a nice way to die, but what's next, a ban on HotShot and Raid? Are you gonna tell me that insects don't feel discomfort when dying from Raid? Ever watched a cockroach writhing in agony on its back after being poisoned by bug spray? On my condo property, a while back the powers that be decided to put out little lures which were to catch and poison "rodents" (squirrels and chipmunks). I was tempted to pick these traps up and toss them because I'm not too keen on poisoning these critters, but I don't think they caught many, or any, as we apparently have smart chipmunks around here, but the point is, why is putting out these traps not considered also a felony? A dog running onto a person's property can be far more annoying (and dangerous) than a cockroach or silverfish visiting. They can attack kids and other animals, not to mention get into trash cans and **** all over your lawn. I just don't get it. It is simple enough. The law permits the land owner to deal with invasion by other people's animals in the manner which does the least damage to the owners of the animals. It is very easy to put a humane trap on the land and bait it with good stuff. Then you take the trap, with dog, to the pound. The pound calls the dog's owner who bails out the dog. Then you do it again the following week. Eventually, the dog owner tires of paying money to bail out the dog and does the responsible thing about controlling the dog. The traps are inexpensive and easy to use. If the dogs in question are heavy, the trick is to set the trap in the back of a pickup or van. The animal control people will lift it out for you, take the dog out, give you back the trap. Many local animal control agencies offer the use of humane traps free of charge. And in fact will come out and set up the trap for the homeowners themselves. td |
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or you could just drive the traps, and the dogs, 100 miles away and let the
dogs out there. |
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