Killing retrievers was farmer's right

Not really a story in my mind....I would have shot them also....

I see the fault squarly on the owners of the dog, not the farmer who was protecting his livestock...

case closed..

Cry me a f'in river. Who cares already?

Dog gone farmers

i agree with uwish, covered under act, $250,000 cow vs. $300 dog.......dog is going to die.


case closed.....

...anyone from PITA wanna debate this issue?

Probably not because the people from PETA are the ones who would get their knickers in a twist.

hmmm (treading carefully) The Farmer was within his right unfortunately and he could have tried to see if they were friendly and looked at their tags "first" and called animal control" - probably didn't notice they were wearing tags from afar and only noticed the minor commotion with his animals, should he have "noticed" that they were friendly critters and not as yet done any harm to his stock, he had options - but in rural areas, it is common for wild dogs to venture into farmsteads, it is also common for people to abandon animals near farms with the thought that "a farmer could make use of them" and even abandoned animals get hungry and will attack just for something to eat. The dogs were probably off exploring, especiually being urban critters, so many smells and sights to explore in their freedom romp - however, how was the farmer to know that these were urban companion animals? It is stated in the article that he did have an option as the dogs did not harm his livestock (no where does it say it was cattle) - I wrote an article about something similar and why farmers shoot unrecognized dogs...
http://www.gomestic.com/Pets/What-Happe ... Keep.16617
or if that doesn't work visit: http://www.gomestic.com/writers/AnimalsAlone.571 (scroll down to the article on the list of my articles) What Happens to Pets Folks Can't Keep

Incorrect.



Inducing panic in the cattle indicates to me that the dogs were either chasing the cattle or scaring the cattle by their mere presence. That's harm enough. Having 1,000Kg critters running around in a panic is never a good thing.

The farmer was under no obligation to wait for any further harm to occur before putting an end to the threat to his herd.

There was some dogs that were got out near my aunt and uncle's farm. If they came after the horses they would have been killed. Most likely by the horses But if a dog every went after them in the paddocks, then no doubt I, my sister, my aunt, my uncle or anyone else would kill the dog.

Did this really need a second thread?

No, but what the hell.

It is CKA I guess............

Same goes for people

Same goes for people
I was going to say teenagers......

lily wrote:



Same goes for people

I was going to say teenagers......

gangs and packs....

My daddy said:

1 dog you have a dog

2 dogs you have half a dog

3 dogs you have no dog at all.