The following was posted in another thread and I consider it to be probably, the most bizzare story I have encountered here on SDMB. And I felt it was worthy of it’s own thread.
“Years ago, some dogs came into an inclosed area of our back porch and tried to eat one of our cats. Fortunately, the cat was so fluffy, so the dog just sort of “gummed” on its fur until we got there to chase it away. There is no doubt, however, that had we not come when we did that the dog would have killed our cat.”
"The next day the dogs came back. We were prepared. My sister had an insulin injection (she’s a diabetic) ready and she shot one of the dogs with it. We have every reason to believe that this shot killed the dog. "
That said, death by poisoning is NOT the way I would have handled it. Even thought dog’s owner’s were at fault, and the dog was a dangerous nuisance, it should have been put down humanely, if at all possible. What was done was cruel, and demonstrably so. If an animal poses an immediate threat to another life, then it needs to be dealt with as such, which means the threat needs to be removed immediately and finally. The injection was by no means an immediate solution, and though the dog ran away, there’s no way to have known in advance that it wouldn’t just turn around and go crazy on the people present. They put themselves in danger without removing the immediate threat to the cat they were trying to protect.
Heck, I know not everyone has a gun, but a shovel to the head would’ve been more humane that an insulin injection.
What exactly is your point by resurrecting this, County? Trying to inflame the animal lovers because it didn’t get a rise out of them the first time? Seriously, I love my dog like a child. I am an animal lover to the extreme(no, not that extreme, you sickos!). That having been said, I wouldn’t hesitate to kill a dog were my animals or my family at risk of getting hurt.
An attempted crucifixion of his family’s actions when the details are hardly known is in bad form, indeed.
The sun is shining, the birds are singing and now there are *two *threads where folks can check in and tell us they’d ‘do the same thing, goddammit,’ how many are burried in the back 40 and what would be their weapon of choice.
I know, I know, I should have known better than to open the frigging thing in the first place.
We could turn this into an evangelism thread while we’re at it - What Weapon Would Jesus Use? I’m thinking Jesus would forgive Pookums for attacking the cats, then cap him in the head with a 9mm auto loaded with hollow points.
Curses. My post was eating. Suffice it to say that according to http://www.drugs.com/insulin.html, insulin poisoning is a terrifying death. I’d strongly advise other people not to do this.
Gee, thanks for your input. My point is stated above. I find injecting a dog with insulin to stop unwanted behavior a bit bizzare to say the least. I consider it to be going a bit further than calling animal control, hitting the dog with a shovel or leaving out ex-lax or even shooting a dog with a gun. I further believe that any dog who would allow the injection would pose little threat.
Oh, and with regard to “bad form,” well gentle reader, you ain’t Judith.
Little threat to humans. That the dog allows people to handle it doesn’t mean it isn’t going to attempt to kill the cat again. I mean, it already tried once.
I agree that injecting the dog with insulin was a fucked up way to kill the dog, but not doing anything at all would have resulted in a dead cat.
THIS thread is gonna get wished into my cornfield.
I closed the other thread for a reason. I’m gonna close this one too. I’d better not see ANOTHER damn thread about the same or similar subject pop up again.
