Every once in a while some city will have somebody who goes nuts and poisons animals.
ABC News story talks about a spate of dog poisonings in Portland.
The fact that some contemptible slime is playing Judge Judy and executioner is surpassed by the fact that they are causing the animals (and by extension their owners) slow, lingering torment that gets supplanted with grief when the pet dies.
And what is the cause of these callous animal murders? People on the different side of a leash law. Now, don’t get me wrong, I hate stepping in fresh dog shit as much as the next guy. That is why I like to think I am a responsible pet owner. When I walk Goliath, I always have a plastic bag with me to clean up his crap. I do that because I think that it is part of being responsible, and the fact that the city I live in, Plano, TX, has an ordinance requiring that you clean up after your pet. There is also a leash law, but I’ve never had a problem with a dog, who is well trained, being off leash.
I’ve also never thought about taking the law into my own hands to correct what is really a minor problem. Think of the time and taxpayer money that can be saved if the concept of unjust punishment was broadened. Summary execution for jaywalking and littering would surely add to the quality of life for those who don’t act as scofflaws.
I must say that if I ever found somebody that was dropping pieces of meat in an area where dogs congregate, I would probably want to force the sick fuck to eat it.
Upon review, this rant is not as full of vitriol like I had originally hoped, but believe me, I seethe with disgust for the person/s who feel justified for killing pets, just because they are off leash.
The local news has been covering this for about a week or so. The thing is, there is still no definitive evidence of what poison was used. We don’t even know for sure that someone did it on purpose, not that I’d put that past some of the crazies we have around.
The ‘stepping in shit’ argument just doesn’t work.
My dogs shit everywhere even when I have them on a leash. That’s why golf courses are so convinient. My dogs love the center of the fairway.
Ahh… I hadn’t seen that the autopsies were back yet. The latest I had heard is that vets were speculating (becuase of the symptoms) that it was paraquet.
Well, maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll be able to find the prick.
Animal murderers need to be caged with a dozen very hungry Rottweilers while wearing a well buttered leather body suit that exposes only their genitals.
Relax, just kidding.
As a matter of fact, I always clean up after my dogs, which is fairly easy since they only go in designated spots anyway.
It just really gets me going because we have those kinds of people, the kind that have a problem with dogs off leash, in our neighborhood as well. The usual argument is that the dogs are dirty and shit all over.
I usually take the time to explain to these people that their 4 year old toddler is dirtier and pisses all over as well so why don’t they keep him on a leash.
What gets me is that the hard core wackos who want to destroy or kill everything that they disagree with, alas a large number of the folks in Portland, are claiming that because some of the dogs that have been poisoned were off leash and thus violating county ordinances, deserved to die. What they fail to mention is that at least one of the dogs was on a leash when it got poisoned and that the county and city, due to pressure from these same people closed the most popular off leash area for dogs.
Now I am all for keeping my dogs on their leash when I walk them in the park near my house, but leaving poison laced meat around so that some kid, dog or other animal can die is flat out wrong. As is the idea that it is ok to kill a animal simply because its owner lets it violate some county ordinance that is blatently discriminitory. If it was, there would be a lot of dead cats around as I know I am not the only one who gets sick of them wandering all over everyones property, something that is a violation of the same ordinance that the terrorist(s) killing dogs seems to want to ignore.
Nah if the “Jailblazers” did it the dogs would all be high. Besides they all hate parquat as it is the herbicide of choice for pot hating drug warriors :smack:
You’ve got a real winner working there. Here’s another for you: In a town nearby, a family raises reindeer. These are just for show, not for food. The family makes money using them for sleigh rides for kids, etc. Last winter, some asshole pulled up to the fenced compound on a snow machine and unloaded with a 22 rifle, killing several (including one named “Christmas”) and wounding others badly enough (gut shot) that they had to be destroyed. The owner spotted the guy and gave chase in his pickup, but couldn’t catch up to him. Eventually, the little prick was arrested and is up for trial shortly. Too bad someone can’t gutshoot him so he can see what it feels like.
This is the kind of thing that boils my blood. So help me, it just might be worth it to me to pack up the rifles and the night vision scopes and spend the last precious days of this years’ vacation in portland.
