Tawaki wrote:
@Sweetleaf
That dog was not under the control of his owner. PERIOD. It's not up to the cop to play nice. I can get a citation for a $500 if my dog is unleashed and a cop is around. If it happens enough, the police take the dog away. If my home owners insurance finds out my dog is not under control, they will drop my coverage due to liability reasons. I can get evicted because my lease says I must have insurance coverage.
In a city, not too far from me, a woman was mauled to death by two Lab/German Shepard mixes, which some jackass couldn't control. The dogs would hop over the fence. The police killed one of the dogs, and are looking for another. The owner is up on manslaughter charges.
I jog carrying bear mace because morons don't train their dogs. People who by large sporting/working breed dogs and keep him in little suburban yards. Those animals were breed to work long, hard hours. Joe Critter Six Pack doesn't do sh** with them, so the dogs chase game, and run the neighborhood.
Do I think the cop needed to cap the dog? Probably not. The law is on his side. I know Idaho lets you cap dogs running loose, and you don't need to give a warning.
The owner is flat out ignorant, and the dog paid.
In the States, animals are considered property. If your horse, dog, pig, goats..whatever are out loose and being a PITA, the authorities have the right to kill them. You may get a second, third chance, you may not. I'm sure this isn't the first time Idaho dude's dogs were running loose. I'm bet he's more hacked that now he's part of family lore, "Remember the birthday party, when the dog got loose, and the office shot the dog..."
Because killing an animal that gets loose or that the owners are too much of morons to keep them on their property is the best way to solve the problem. See there is just nothing about such a policy I can agree with....now if the animal is being aggressive and hurting/killing people or something it might be reasonable....but shooting an animal just for wandering around loose seems way excessive. I think typically lose animals around where i live are either returned to their owner by whoever finds it if there is a collar with an address or phone number or they get taken to an animal shelter.
Don't know what a PITA is.
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14 Feb 2014, 11:55 pm
Let's be glad an unruly toddler didn't try and bite the officer.
