Chicken owner charged after shooting dog.

[gardencricket]

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I LOVE LAW AND ORDER!!!!!!!!! LOL All of them, I would definatly watch this one.

I also agree with horsejody, her officers would be perfect!!!

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

It just twists my knickers that some people believe that dogs have a God given right to go where they please!!

I don't ask for much. If your dog can not be trusted around my children or animals.... keep it off my property. That's all.

I will tell you if I notice your dog showing agression toward my children or animals.

If you decide that it is more important for your dog to have it's freedom than for my children and animals to be safe... I will kill the dog. It is just that simple.

I will feel badly that I was put in the position of ending the life of what might have been a wonderful pet..... because YOU refused to be a responsible pet owner.

This is a standard I live by. Take a look at one of my own dogs. She no longer has her freedom since she took to killing chickens.

 

[texasgal]

Exactly!! I'm soo glad you said it, because I try to avoid these kinds of threads .. lol. So .... thank you!

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[gardencricket]

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Agreed, I am just antsy to see how this all turns out.

Welcome Mr. Harris, and when you can post please let us know how your doing.

 

[Boyd]

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I LOVE LAW AND ORDER!!!!!!!!! LOL All of them, I would definatly watch this one.
I also agree with horsejody, her officers would be perfect!!!

I still think ya'll should get mad city chickens for a lil chicken humor here

 

[MysticScorpio82]

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I couldn't have said it better myself!

 

[LaSombra]

we had a dog that kept getting out. We had one of those invisible fences (shock collar) for her and everything. She still got out. She figured out she could run through it. We tried our hardest and were buying the materials for a physical fence when she finally disappeared for good. We figured where she'd gone and it was confirmed when some people found her shock collar in the woods that a cougar got her.

Dogs should be kept at home, not only to keep them from being a menace, but to keep them safe as well. In the city (and the country too), cars/trucks are a danger to them.

That said, I don't blame the guy for shooting the dog. It could have killed his chickens. My neighbors' dogs got loose and killed another neighbor (my aunt)'s banties, killed three of them. She didn't shoot the dogs but I wouldn't have been surprised had she done so.

 

[flakey chick]

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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..

So the area has so much trouble with loose dogs chasing chickens that they decide to pass a law against shooting these dogs. That is scary and scarier still they would take that route over actually increased enforcing their existing animal control laws.

 

[fowltemptress]

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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..

So the area has so much trouble with loose dogs chasing chickens that they decide to pass a law against shooting these dogs. That is scary and scarier still they would take that route over actually increased enforcing their existing animal control laws.

If that's true, than that IS scary . . . poor Mr. Harris. All that I've learned from this is to not try and be a good citizen by calling the cops.

 

[cmjust0]

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According to the Oregon Revised Statutes page -- and as near as I can tell -- that particular law was last amended in 1975.

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It is true, and it is troubling to say the least.

The really odd part is that it specifically prohibits "the killing of any dog" engaged in chasing, wounding, etc., within city limits.. It doesn't say "you can't shoot" -- it says you can't kill.. In other words, it's not even about firing a gun in city limits...it's about not killing a dog for chasing chickens in city limits.

I got to reading the rest of Oregon's dog laws, and lemme tell ya...they're really heavily biased toward giving dogs and owners lots and lots of "do-overs."

For instance, the dog owner gets a right to a hearing, even if the dog is caught red-handed. They even go so far as to mention fecal testing, to see if any "evidence" comes out (beaks, feathers, etc) in order to determine whether or not the dog actually killed something...even though they don't often actually eat what they kill. And, hey, if the dog owner doesn't like the results of the first hearing, they can appeal for another.

If, after all that, the dog is found to have been killing, wounding, or chasing livestock, a whole host of other factors are brought into play to determine what happens... Like did it chase, or did it wound/kill? Has it wounded/killed before? Blah blah blah..

In most cases, state law even says that a livestock killing dog should be re-homed to a place where it's not a threat to livestock..

Long and short -- Oregon's laws REEEEEEALLY favor dogs over livestock.