Dog shot by police, her only crime was being old - Page 15

Read the comments posted below the story too.

Doesn't sound like the first reported '10 minutes
had passed and the dog was still alive' either.

Look at the pic in the photo, a clearly very 
emaciated dog laying in the dirt. 

Nice way to let a best friend live out it's life.


I noticed neither Billie Joe or Fred were 
emaciated.

Oh great, now some lawyer will come around and pump them all up to sue. Obviously all this brouhaha is stirring the greedy pot, because they were fine letting their dog die on its own to spare an expense, just the other day. 

I wouldn't trust a word out of the Whitley's mouths at this point. I'll trust the good officers have themselves well documented, too bad that is the state of how we need to operate in this day and age. 

People are such liars.

Be4U and ladyjarhead I think it was.  My apologies for the mock.  I think the gun was jumped and your presumptions went up a bit early, but definitely not a not story. 

 

Not me, I don't change my tune. The money pockets are making noise though. Loud jingly noises. Ambulance chaser blarings too. I'm pretty sure we can keep this non-story going until a few people get their pockets lined. Betcha the old crying folks made a deal for some clicks. They are starting to make me sick, too.

Lots of ways to drag this one out even more. Every good deed goes unpunished, is the saying. The poor cop is probably thinking he could have just charged them with animal cruelty and forced the town to take their neglected dog and even so the next day, it would still be dead. 

I think the officer did the dog a favor, however, he should have known exactly were to aim to dispatch the dog immediately. Those people are wrong wanting to let the dog lay there and suffer. in October of 2000, a "hunter" poaching on our property point blank shot a two year old paint gelding of mine. The horse was apparently standing by his feed trough when the a$$hole shot him with a muzzle loader. The bullet penetrated his shoulder blade. My vet didn't know how far the bullet traveled, so opted to give the horse time to heal if he would. But one week later, with no improvement in his condition, my vet came out to put the young horse down. Living in foot hills, this ground is too hard to dig a hole deep enough to accommodate an animal that large. So, I asked my vet if he would shoot the horse, since the carcass would be eaten by wild animals, and I didn't want them to ingest the poison customarily used. I provided the gun, we led the horse to a secluded area, and one carefully placed bullet dropped my horse, immediate cessation of life. The cops investigating this needed the bullet so my vet removed the shoulder and found the the bullet had traveled through the shoulder, along the ribs and was stopped by the spine. No way could he have healed from this. So, regarding this story about the pitiful dog, a badly placed bullet is the only thing I see done wrong by the officer. I also think that the owners should be charged with cruelty.

Not knowing the whole story and realizing I will never know the whole story.  Maybe I'm just naive, but I believe most people act out of the best of intentions,  maybe lack of knowledge but still the best of intentions.  the officer after talking with the people may have felt they had lack of knowledge about responsability for an animal and felt sorry for them and therefore didn't want to charge them and increase the pain they felt for their beloved animal.  maybe the officer's lack of knowledge led him to shoot the dog in a less then optimum area.  My conclusion is they both need to be better educated.  I will not stand in judgment over either one, that would be foolishness on my part and help no one.  The owners though need to be educated about pet ownership and responsibility .  The whole situation is just sad.

I hope the Whitless family sue and the first thing the Judge does is take a look at the picture of the poor emaciated dog laying in the dirt. The cop deserves a commendation and the Whitles family should be prosecuted for neglect. Dig up the dog and do a necropsy. Get the exact condition of the dog when the cop ended her suffering.


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Ahhhhh back to entrenchment.

 

I dont change my tune! Facts already in evidence bee.... thats funny right there. :)

A thought, If we remove the drama of victimization from the thread, what might be your answers to these questions? 

If the dog was not suffering and proved to just be old... is everyone still ok with the officer shooting it? I also think Im very good at assessment of suffering, I am unable to do it from a photograph.

 

If they said they did not want their dog shot, is everyone ok with the chief and officer making that decision when he had the option of ordering them to take the dog to a vet as stated by the animal cruelty assoc. at the end of the video.

 

No one still wants to take on Abbeys refined position?

 

 If the dog was not suffering and proved to just be old... is everyone still ok with the officer shooting it? 

NO, of course not.  

I also think Im very good at assessment of suffering,

It is not just the photo, which shows a dog incapable of standing in an emaciated condition. It is the Officer's assessment, the neighbor's complaint, the original owner's agreement and the admittance they were going to let the animal die as it lays. Yes, a person being there would be able to make that assessment, IMO 

If they said they did not want their dog shot,

That is now the new $64,000 question, IF.   I believe the original version of the story documented by the cop on the scene. Point is moot.

ABBY, in a perfect world, it would be as you say, IMHO.