Dog survives being shot and thrown into river

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A dog is making a recovery after it's owner decided to avoid paying to put the dog to sleep by hiring someone to shoot it and dump it into a river.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04 ... -a-vet-50/
I don't know why would someone be this cruel to a poor dog.

That's disgusting.

There are animal welfare charities who will euthanize a dog for free. I know this because a friend of my mom's, years ago, had a lhasa apso that was sick, but she couldn't afford to have it put down. My mom found a shelter where they would put the dog down for free. I think it was the SPCA.

Was it named Rasputin?

If the dog survived and is likely to make a full recovery, I have to wonder why the owner felt it needed to be put down in the first place. I mean obviously the dog wasn't close to death. Sounds more like they just didn't want to be responsible for the dog anymore which is sad, why didn't they just take it to a shelter where it could maybe be re-homed.

Last edited by Sweetleaf on 30 Apr 2014, 9:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Time to throw the previous owner off a bridge
Some ass in Springfield,Mo threw a dog off an overpass onto the freeway.Good samaritans scooped the dog up,took him to a vet.He survived and now has a good home.They never caught the person who did it,who is obviously a menace and still on the loose.

I once worked with a guy who talked about taking one of his coon dogs out and shooting it because it wouldn't hunt. Was gun shy. I came unglued on him. Some humans just don't get it. Dogs are resilient, and generally forgiving. I'm glad that little fella survived.

Wow seriously, that's no reason to shoot a dog....I would have wanted to punch them in the face and kick the crap out of them(not that I could do that but I'd want to)

That is how I felt at the time. We had a little shouting match. He was, coincidentally, one of those Christians who always carry a bible around with them. He actually tried to use biblical rhetoric to justify the way he treated his dogs

The culling of a litter goes on a lot more than you think. It's one thing if the b***h (the true definition of the word) refuses to let a pup nurse ( which is Mother Nature way of taking care of the weak and infirm pups), it's quite another for someone to cull a litter because it won't hunt/refuses to be aggressive/does not meet the breed standard, etc. In the case of not meeting a breed standard, the breeder will normally have the animal spayed or neutered before putting the animal up for adoption, or will offer to refund the spay/neuter fee once the adopter can prove (usually with paperwork from the vet) the surgery has been done.

Anyhow, my paternal grandfather did this all the time with his beagles. He'd "euthanize" (read shoot or poison) the dogs that wouldn't hunt. Why he didn't sell or give away those that didn't hunt was beyond me. Of course, he was a sick bastard to begin with, just like his brothers.

I guess if someone has a bnd with their animals and does it on those terms that is what has to be done but I see no need to come to work talking about it as if he is discussing what is in his lunch box. I know to some people a dog is just an amusement and dont have any affection or attachment but I have never had a dog that I did not bond with emotionally

We have people come in to the Humane Society and abandon THEIR dogs for the stupidest BS reasons. I've been tempted to tell a few of them off, but if we start doing that and word gets around people will start taking dogs to the county shelter instead. Due to overcrowding and limited funds they stand a good chance of being euthanized if they wind up being dumped at the county shelter. At least the Humane Society keeps them until we can find homes for them.

Yeah, that was my first thought, too. The article makes no mention of the reason.

Anyway, at the risk of being flamed, I'm going to say that I don't see how shooting is inherently a more cruel way to kill a dog than an injection. It's messy, of course, but surely a good shotgun shot to the head would kill anyone instantly and, therefore, painlessly? Obviously, this particular "hitman" did a very poor job of it and the owner was wrong to use someone unskilled, but as far as I know it's quite common to put down horses and cattle by shooting them, so why not a dog?

Many here will put down a horse that way,if you call the vet to euthanize a horse first you need a big hole to put it in.The injection is toxic to buzzards and other birds,the vet won't even come out unless it's dug.that means a backhoe.But,you have to know exactly where to shoot the horse.We had an old mare that was dying and my ex went to the vet to ask where to shoot the horse in the head,if you don't hit the right spot,it does not kill them.you imagine an X from the horses ears to eyes and shoot in the middle of it.

Lol that is where I'd have to intervene in nature and help that little pup be fed....so it doesn't die. Though in all my time with cats and dogs I've never seen a mother animal willfully try to prevent the weakest of the bunch from nursing. Its usually more there is a feeding frenzy of little kittens/puppies all trying to be nursed and the weakest one has trouble competing and climbing over the others so yeah in nature it could happen they don't end up getting nutrients. I also know though that Lions will sometimes eat their cubs or other lions cubs.

Uhh animal abuse/killing animals for stupid reasons really gets to me, God forbid I ever come across someone mistreating an animal...I'd likely end up in some legal trouble myself when I grab a stick or something and come at them in a rage and beat them with it and ask them how they like that.