Shot a pest, not a predator, but the neighbour is irate.

[doodlers]

I refuse to take you seriously. GTFO of a chicken forum and go join some kind of testosterone-fuelled hunting forum. There's a better place to discuss what a major homo you are.

 

[4H kids and mom]

I just have to add one more comment. I can see giving only one warning when you are talking about a $100 animal like a dog or something, but a horse can run anywhere from $500 to $2000 or more! Dont know about you, but thats not something I could afford to loose. Not to mention, the poor owner (who may have been rude) is crying tonight because you STOLE her pet away from her.

If it were MY Horse, I'd sue the shooter for the cost of the horse, and for pain and suffering, and anything else I could think of, and I garauntee you OP.... YOU were wrong and SHE WILL WIN.

Please Mods, take this thread away. Please. Its too painful to read anymore.

PS...I didnt really mean shooting dogs is ok! I love dogs!

BUT, I dont like loose dogs that eat chickens...

 

[TreyClark281]

well i think that you are a little to over protective for your 50 ACRES!!!!!!! you have 50!!! come someone riding on the fence what is wrong with that. i think you are like a crazy cat lady that doesn't want anyone to touch her cats. get over it, it's a horse a beloved horse think if your prize winning chicken got loose one day (with out your control) and wondered into a neighbors yard and they shot it your beloved racing chicken! how would you feel????
wouldn't you want to press charges? for all of the times that your chicken won races? what? come on don't you feel any guilt?
i bet that horse was a part of the family to those people.

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

From another Canadian LRTC, with some background in SPCA work I can tell you that your not in the right here, and no the Police would not be the ones to charge you. They would enforce the law only if the critter was ownerless, or if you were the owner. It will be up to the owner of the horse to have you charged and you will be informed of same by the Crown, or the Police, or by Sopeana when it happens.

You can't defend vegies. The law allows you to defend livestock. Salad is not livestock. Also your responsible to fence OUT critters from gardens so unless you can prove she intentionally put her horse onto your property, opening a gate or such it's your fault it is there.

You will likely be paying the cost of the horse (and it will be whatever the owners says it can be as you can no longer prove it's not a star jumper or whatever) and her emotional suffering. You may also be charged with cruelty. Hard to say there, they might have to prove that the horse felt pain or was scared prior to death.

Sorry but I think your totally in the wrong here. Her riding on your property and the horse being loose one day have nothing to do with each other.

 

[Jsto]

I don't generally indulge in these hot threads, but there's just something sticking in my craw. Where you're from/have lived or what meat is acceptable to eat has nothing to do with the post at all. It's about shooting to 'dispatch,' as you so coldly put it, someone's pet for munching on your garden ONE TIME. That was no first warning. The horse's owner riding on your land and the horse showing up on it's own are two completely seperate instances.

The fact that you find it okay to shoot to kill a PET that was NOT threatening your livestock is disgusting. That was not the only choice at all, which is what makes the whole situation sickening. It has nothing to do with being a horse lover or not, it has to do with being compassionate not only to the animal, who was doing nothing wrong in it's mind, but to the owners. You used that animal's life as a message. How much more cruel can you get?

For the record, I don't condone shooting ANY animal, pet or wild, unless it is absolutely necessary in order to protect your animals, so you can't throw that argument in my face.

I hope it was worth the bills you're going to have to pay when they sue the pants off of you. Because there's no way in hell they aren't going to win.

 

[panner123]

Well if you have read any of my posts, you know my two best friends are Smith & Wesson. If any critter gets after any of my animals, chickens, dog, cats, cattle, I send it to a better place. Now if it is a human or some critter that is more of a pest, I have a special load for my shotgun, it is caled "rock salt". This is what you should have done. But now that the deed has been done, I believe you may be in a looooonnggggggg legal battle.

 

[Sharona]

I have a question - let's assume the owner never rode on your fence line and the first episode was an escape just like this instance? Would you have shot the horse today? or did you shoot the horse to punish/prove a point to the owner because of her attitude?

I understand wanting to protect your property but I don't agree with the extreme measure. If the horse was destructive or dangerous that's different but he was only doing what his instinct taught him to do.

I just spent some time reading through your previous posts and you seems like a good person that made a bad judgement call.

I'm afraid you will be paying the price financially and she'll be paying the price in heartache.

 

[DuckLady]

No matter what we might feel here, we don't allow flaming.

LCRT, you know better than to post crap like this without expecting feedback.