Chicken owner charged after shooting dog.

[Boyd]

lurking and waiting for the 13th of July

 

[joebryant]

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I would be thinking that I was an idiot and an irresponsible owner if it had been my dog. I would be very sorry for causing the death of my beloved dog.


Me too.
I have two Welsh corgis that I don't think would kill chickens; they are afraid of mine; however, I don't know what they would/could do elsewhere. Dogs not only kill chickens, some kill some children.
Mine get out of the yard sometimes and stray. FORTUNATELY, neighbors have caught them and called us, BUT if they had been threatening to others' property/person, I would understand if they got shot/killed.

EDIT: BTW, wonder who the dog's owner would blame if the dog had gotten run over.

 

[WalkingWolf]

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I would be thinking that I was an idiot and an irresponsible owner if it had been my dog. I would be very sorry for causing the death of my beloved dog.


Me too.
I have two Welsh corgis that I don't think would kill chickens; they are afraid of mine; however, I don't know what they would/could do elsewhere. Dogs not only kill chickens, some kill some children.
Mine get out of the yard sometimes and stray. FORTUNATELY, neighbors have caught them and called us, BUT if they had been threatening to others' property/person, I would understand if they got shot/killed.

EDIT: BTW, wonder who the dog's owner would blame if the dog had gotten run over.

He would have had the police charge the driver with Vehicular cruelty to animals, and unlawful use of a motor vehicle in the city. I have a funny feeling that this man has some kind of influence with both the city and the media to get this special treatment. Even with the chicken owner being charged their was absolutely no reason not to charge the dog owner. And the tv station completely stayed away from the fact that the dog was a animal at large. I am not sure if that city has a ordinance for that but the fine is usually higher than a leash violation. The difference is for one the dog is off leash in presence of the owner. The other the dog is let to roam to become a community nuisance. The animal at large code can be levied for any animal though, horses, pigs, cats, and yes chickens.

 

[citrusdreams]

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The fact that this was a completely one sided story didn't escape me. The dog owners were in fact breaking leash and animal-at-large laws according to the ordinances I read. Even if the arresting police officer didn't know about the livestock ordinance, or the rights of the dog owner to protect his property, he should very well have known about the leash and animal-at-large ordinances and should have arrested TWO parties, not one. Charges should have been filed against BOTH sides, if any. And that's why it's so important for us to support Mr. Harris by writing and following up. Make the story known wide and far so that the law enforcers know that eyes are watching their behavior. It's obvious the dog owners have the law in their pocket, which is just unbelieveable to me, but that's the way it is sometimes I guess. I'm just glad I live where I live, and that private property is respected as such, or I couldn't live here. If I were Mr. Harris, and this didn't get completely straightened out, I'd be moving to a better place.

 

[Brindlebtch]

Police are not law experts and most do not know most of the laws where they live.

 

[MysticScorpio82]

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That's kinda scary....

 

[flakey chick]

One irony that does not escape me is that dogs make trouble because their owners do not spend the time needed with them. That's why we got chickens! We knew we weren't home often enough to have a dog or cat, but the chickens get along just fine with little attention.

 

[Kung Foo Chicken]

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Ain't that the truth!

 

[G Wiz Ranch]

LEO's are people too. There are too many laws for any 1 person to know without using a written guide with lots of amendments. I know for a fact that they will site someone KNOWING the DA will toss it out, just to keep peace with the "victim". I can image that this POS dog owner threw a tantrum and the LEO's just wanted to get the hell out of there to deal with real criminals, so they cited the shooter with two “minor” infractions.

I know of an example to this. Long story short, there was a SVP (sexually violent predator, child molester) that was being housed in a rural area. A neighbor shot at a “squirrel” and the bullet hit the car of one of the security guards that was assigned to “protect” the SVP (no joke). The sheriffs HAD to site the shooter for something, so they sited him for shooting too close (within 150 yards) to a dwelling. They did this KNOWING the home was well over a 150 yards away, the case got tossed by the DA. While the sheriff is no doubt that empathetic to the security guard, I am sure they are also empathetic to the neighbors that have had this SVP put in their neighbor hood. I am sure that the “shot” was like a “shot over the bow” as a message to the SVP, however the shooter didn’t understand who owned the car.

 

[Boyd]

I agree. The laws change much too quickly for Law Enforcement to keep up with them.. They use the law of common sense for the most part...... and the most part they are correct. They probably knew the citation would be thrown out after the DA reviewed the file, but they had to do something otherwise 4 and 5 letter'd acronomynym'd organizations would be beating down his door.

McMansion people need to be appeased. Judges have broader shoulders and are immune to politics in many cases. That's why the DA and LEO's let them decide, not the spear carriers.