this is pretty common in rural living situations. people will let their dog roam, but know if it goes too far it will die by unintentional poisoning, getting hit by a car, or shot for harassing livestock. i doubt animal control would even come out for a loose dog, sure as hell wouldnt when i was rural living.
A little background on the dogs owner. He owns two dogs who he has routinely allowed to roam freely onto neighboring farms where these dogs have killed neighbors chickens multiple times. Not saying the dog deserved to get shot but that dog killed multiple chickens because he failed to contain his dogs like he should. Sad story all around.
Edit: the source is not hard to find. This happened in mississippi. I can't post due to reddits rules. It's also of note that the same owner had posted on his own social media about his dogs getting out and allowing his "wolf hybrid" dogs to roam.
An unfortunate facet of rural life. The owner’s Facebook gives a lot of detail, and it’s clear he had failed to contain his dog for quite a while and it led to the dog killing livestock. In rural areas, animal control often can’t be assed to deal with stuff like this, or just straight up doesn’t serve some areas.
This guy probably just did what the owners of the killed livestock were waiting to do themselves. It’s sad for the dog, don’t get me wrong, but the SSS rule reigns supreme with farmers and ranchers once it escalates to killing livestock or even going after them. Quite frankly, the owner is lucky to have gotten the courtesy of a letter and the returned collar.
Small livestock attacks regularly turn into large livestock attacks. It was only a matter of time before this dog went after someone’s cows, pigs, horses, etc, and got multiple animals seriously injured, caught up in fencing, etc.
AncientMight on December 18th, 2019 at 01:11 UTC »
this is pretty common in rural living situations. people will let their dog roam, but know if it goes too far it will die by unintentional poisoning, getting hit by a car, or shot for harassing livestock. i doubt animal control would even come out for a loose dog, sure as hell wouldnt when i was rural living.
technotunacasserole on December 18th, 2019 at 03:49 UTC »
A little background on the dogs owner. He owns two dogs who he has routinely allowed to roam freely onto neighboring farms where these dogs have killed neighbors chickens multiple times. Not saying the dog deserved to get shot but that dog killed multiple chickens because he failed to contain his dogs like he should. Sad story all around.
Edit: the source is not hard to find. This happened in mississippi. I can't post due to reddits rules. It's also of note that the same owner had posted on his own social media about his dogs getting out and allowing his "wolf hybrid" dogs to roam.
Edit 2: not lost on a hike but allowed to roam... ... https://imgur.com/a/3cMq6PZ
arusenti on December 18th, 2019 at 05:37 UTC »
An unfortunate facet of rural life. The owner’s Facebook gives a lot of detail, and it’s clear he had failed to contain his dog for quite a while and it led to the dog killing livestock. In rural areas, animal control often can’t be assed to deal with stuff like this, or just straight up doesn’t serve some areas.
This guy probably just did what the owners of the killed livestock were waiting to do themselves. It’s sad for the dog, don’t get me wrong, but the SSS rule reigns supreme with farmers and ranchers once it escalates to killing livestock or even going after them. Quite frankly, the owner is lucky to have gotten the courtesy of a letter and the returned collar.
Small livestock attacks regularly turn into large livestock attacks. It was only a matter of time before this dog went after someone’s cows, pigs, horses, etc, and got multiple animals seriously injured, caught up in fencing, etc.