Chicken owner charged after shooting dog.

[cmjust0]

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Based on what? I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure state laws trump city codes, and if there's a state law specifically written to prevent the killing of dogs who chase chickens in the city...I frankly don't see the code holding up.

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No, not just that...

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...animal abuse, also.

Now that I'm seeing the state law, though...I'd be willing to bet the "chickens are not considered livestock" part has something to do with ORS 609.150 (3)..

 

[MysticScorpio82]

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According to Wikipedia (...so who knows...

), Redmond was incorporated on July 6, 1910. So, it would appear that Redmond is, indeed, an incorporated city.

Moreover, according to the letter Jody got back from the DA's office, the DA seemed more concerned with the firing of a weapon within city limits than with anything else. Assuming the DA and Police Dept. know where the city limits begin and end, that would mean Mr. Harris killed a dog for chasing chickens within the corporate limits of a city...which would seem to be an extremely direct violation of ORS 609.150 (3).

And when I say extremely direct, I mean...it looks like the law was specifically written to prevent Mr. Harris from specifically doing what he specifically did...

Like..very specifically...troublingly specifically....eerily specifically..

I'm not so sure about the part I bolded in your statement, only because it is my understanding that a corperate limits of a city would be a business district or downtown area. City limits just means within the city in general. He shot the dog on private property, not in coperate limits, which according to their law is legal.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but if you do correct me, please explain and give good definations. Lol I want to learn, not just be told "you are wrong".

 

[Boyd]

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please please please?

 

[NYREDS]

It's astounding how people through this thread have extrapolated the dog's behavior, based only on the presumed fact that it was on Harris' property when shot. Without anything to support it we've read that the dog was probably jumping on the coop, barking and it was even a danger to children. The dog's owner has been demonized beyond reason.
In the mind of most people in this society a dog can be very special, almost like a member of the family. Again, for most people, a chicken is just a chicken. No different that the ones that come in a bucket at KFC. In this society we eat chickens but we don't eat dogs. The relationships just aren't the same.
IMO Mr Harris sounds like another word for donkey.

 

[cmjust0]

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Well, the Oregon Revised Statutes page search function seems to be down right now... Otherwise, I'd see if I could find how they define 'corporate limits.'

My understanding, however, is that when a city incorporates, it's the entire city. The incorporation is basically how the city is constituted...it's the 'definiition' of the city, if you will, kinda like the US Constitution is the 'definition' of the US.

If I'm right -- and I'm fairly sure -- the 'corporate limits' are what us non-incorporated-city-dwellers would recognize as the city limits, and vice versa..

In other words, interchangeable terms.

Someone should certainly double check me, though..

 

[WalkingWolf]

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Mods please don't close this thread because of insensitive people. Sometimes it is obvious that the intent is to shutdown a thread. Even after warnings these people insist on trolling.

 

[cmjust0]

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No, I presumed it was running around the coop based on the fact that the dog's owner stated that his dog was running around the coop in the little flyer thing he passed around.

He didn't say walking...he didn't say sleeping...he said running -- and he owned the dog.

 

[horsejody]

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Mods please don't close this thread because of insensitive people. Sometimes it is obvious that the intent is to shutdown a thread. Even after warnings these people insist on trolling.

Yes, let's keep it open.

 

[GaNewChick]

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To the core ~ it really doesn't matter whether he shot a dog, coon, or snake. I will be surprised if they drop the charges.

 

[Rillion]

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No, I presumed it was running around the coop based on the fact that the dog's owner stated that his dog was running around the coop in the little flyer thing he passed around.

He didn't say walking...he didn't say sleeping...he said running -- and he owned the dog.

That's true, but I wonder how he could've known? I mean, I thought the time line was that his dog went missing, he got in his car to go look for it, and ended up at Harris' house to see Harris talking to a police officer after shooting the dog. Gapp wasn't present when his dog was shot, so he couldn't know what the dog was doing.