We don’t know your husband, you, or the laws of your particular city so the answer is: How the hell could we possible know the answer to your questions?
What makes you think this happened at all? Did you find the dog’s body buried in the back yard, or somewhere else? Did he confess?
iamadoglover - you need to think about your own safety here. You should call a good friend or relative, and get somewhere safe. It might be a relative’s house. It might be a hotel. If he threatens you directly, you should consider finding a secure women’s shelter, where he can’t find you.
Then you can contact a lawyer who specializes in family violence and work with him to safely get this guy out of your life. The shelter will have referals for you.
I know you’re furious. I don’t blame you. But you need to be careful about threatening a violent person with criminal charges.
We don’t know the man, the dog, the woman or the situation. Putting a dog down with a gun is no more or less violent than taking a dog to the vet and having him euthanized. The real issue is why did he not tell her he did it. He may have underestimated her grief or response. The dog may have been a pain in the ass. We just don’t know.
I’m very sorry for your loss, Ms./Mr. Glover.
Another vote that rural sensibilities and laws are very different from suburban ones.
Without knowing a lot more about the case, and with better credibility for the “facts” provided, IMO the OP is pretty much a Rorschach blot and most posters are simply spouting their pre-conceived notions about blots.
Well, the accepted version of that is “sent him to a farm upstate” and even that only works on little kids.
You don’t just disappear the dog without at least bringing up that the dog needs to go and making an attempt to get rid of it by other means.
Like everybody else said, if your husband got rid of a pet in any way, or says “I did it” to get you to shut up about a legit lost pet, without talking it over first he should probably stop being your husband.
I have a feeling this thread is going to end up printed out as evidence in iamadoghater’s murder trial when the OP mysteriously disappears. Or maybe HoneyBadgerDC’s trial when their SO goes missing.
I guess it depends on context and has been beaten to death already. Personally, I do not want to live with people who doesn’t respect animals. Some people go as far as not trust them, but a lot of this is depending on culture/upbrining.
However, if you’re talking about shooting pets without any ill wills (if you can put it at that). When I was in Alabama (don’t ask), farmers who have too many puppies have to shoot the extras. In chicken farms, you have to kill disruptive roosters that peck and scratch other hens to death.
But I do think city pets are sick because they eat unnatural diet (dog foods in bags) and are inactive, a lot of times are not very useful and smart compared to farm dogs. I never had to wash the dogs since they swim and wash themselves, I never ever seen their poops since they cover it up, and they catch snakes, sniff out rat holes and dig them up, and scare away eagles.
Oh, that’s ok, if he did shoot her it would be no different than admitting her to hospice care, so there’s no need for her to worry about it.
I’m having a hard time taking this thread seriously.
If I had to guess, I would think it’s just a (bad) joke.
We know that men shoot their spouses and children so often that it barely even makes the news. The situation is that he has a gun and thinks that killing is a solution to a problem.
Bullshit. One leaves you with blood and brains spattered everywhere. The other is leaves you with a dog that went to sleep.
If he shoots animals because they’re annoying, it’s only smart to avoid annoying him further by talking to police. The OP should make sure she’s in a safe place before pursuing any legal options, including divorce.
I know it’s politically correct to say that gun users are always responsible and it’s not fair to worry about male domestic violence, but you know what they say about the biases of facts.
Rural sensibilities do not okay shooting your wife’s dog and letting her spend months looking for it.
Seriously, those of you that are sure the OP’s husband is just a Good Old Boy with a different frame of reference–imagine that Good Old Boy shot his best friend’s dog and then hid the evidence. Do you really see that being shrugged off as insignificant in “rural” circles? That’s the kind of thing people get shot over.
We’re not sure of anything-there are no details to go off of.
A friend of mine told me how his childhood dog got overly aggressive one day and mauled his face. When his father came home and heard about it he was livid. He took out his gun and shot the dog in the head. Then his mother was livid because his dad didn’t take the dog outside first.
And that is all true. He actually did tell me that story.
That’s understandable, and he didn’t lie about it.
This is a whole different issue.
We’ll be lucky if we get one more post from the OP. It’s one of those threads.
Yes he confessed. Dog was perfectly healthy…and loved. He just didn’t want the dog anymore. Waited till I wasn’t home…took him out and shot him.
It’s probably conversion, or property destruction, assuming it wasn’t actually his dog.
You don’t live in Reno by any chance?
Then call your local ASPCA. They will know a lot more about your local laws than we will.
Well, then, you have other issues you have to deal with.