Chicken owner charged after shooting dog.

[kagedgoddess]

i find it reprehensible that the dog ower says he "isn't sure" he'd do anything different in the future.if his other dog gets shot HE should be charged wih animal cruelty. someone should smack that moron. poor dog

 

[speckledhen]

If the man who shot the dog is charged with abuse, then the dog's owner should be charged with letting the dog roam off the leash. "Walking the dog" is not letting it run wherever the heck it wants to go. "Walking the dog" requires a leash. If it's in the city limits, then you bet they have a leash law.

 

[jjdward]

This is crazy!
1st: chickens not livestock(nuts)
2nd: charged with shooting firearm in city limits. Pellet gun aint a firearm
3rd: This is just crazy!!!

 

[lurky]

I feel so sorry for this chicken owner. How totally unfair. I posted in the comments on his behalf, and i hope all you BYCers do as well. Could you imagine being in his position right now and being treated as a criminal????

He needs support

 

[Mrs. Glassman]

Thank goodness I live in a "Shoot-First" State.

 

[Equus5O]

Quote:
It is a firearm.

 

[sdgdh1]

Quote:
It is a firearm.

That's an amazingly silly statement. Where's the fire? It's air powered. Is a slingshot a firearm? Words have meanings.

The dog owner should be charged, simple as that. I had a similar situation with a neighbor that let his dog off to roam the neighborhood every day. I picked it up, threw it in the back of the truck and dropped it off at the pound.

 

[Cherstin]

As someone mentioned the ordinances, I am wondering if this happened in a residential neighborhood where perhaps the chicken owner, in order to keep chickens, had to declare them as "pets" since technically "livestock" can only be kept agriculturally. Does that make sense?

Either way though, I'm sorry ... A person does have the right to bear arms, city limits or not. Are you telling me that in the limits of that city I can't shoot someone who is maliciously on my property with the intent to do damage?! I'm not sure about that whole "city limit" thing. It sort of freaks me out.

I hope there is follow-up posted as well. I'd do anything to keep my chickens safe, too BUT ... if I were breaking the law to keep said chickens on my property (as many people who live in cities are and as I am too) maybe I wouldn't be so quick to pull out my pellet gun. It's sort of like calling the police to report that the person you were buying marijuana from sold you catnip instead. Right?!!

 

[FrenchHen]

Maybe some cities are changing the rules about livestock in city limits by NOT defining chickens as such?

Edited to be clearer:
If livestock aren't allowed, but chickens are not livestock, chickens would be allowed within the city limits.

 

[insiderart]

Let's keep it civil... discussion is good.