That's a really unique looking dog though. Who knows what some whacko could have seen and decided they wanted. You would also think it would take a lot of nerve to go back into a neighborhood in Glen Burnie and steal a dog out of its backyard in broad daylight yet we dealt with a number of cases like that in Northern. Plus (and let's not go off track here people please) they do look like fancy brindle pit bull mixes, to me anyway. And there's a lot of assholes who would I'm sure just love to have a dog like that as a "status symbol" and don't really care that it belongs to someone else. Wherever she wound up like I said I hope it's not as a bait dog.
what if the dog was attacking someone? a kid perhaps...
if the dog is threatening your family on your property- it's fair game.
That page just gave me a weather overview for the area.
That page just gave me a weather overview for the area.
Well, that leaves out farm land/live stock harassment. That's residential. No one heard anything? WTF?
The pin is at the block where the owner lives, the arrow denotes the water treatment plant. Lots of fields and rural properties in between. It may just have been that someone had it with this 'pack of wild dogs' that kept coming into his property. Considering the emotional reaction you will get if you take any kind of action against a dog, I can understand why they may not be volunteering that information.
So he got so mad he shot it on the property of the water treatment plant?
Possibly the dogs were out loose and shouldn't have been, I'll admit that. But it sounds to me more like some ******* who saw a stray dog and figured he could get away with shooting her, and did.
I've met more than one person in my life who will shoot any stray dog they see when they're out in the woods. They''re generally the same kind of people who go out back and shoot birds with BB guns just for jollies and didn't have a lot of friends in school.
We know like none of that right ? Possible,even likely, but nothing we know at this point.
A couple of years ago, in a state park in St Marys Co, the park rangers collared dog got out of his kennel. This was during blackpowder season and some amish guy apparently thought that any dog in the woods had to be eliminated. Just for good measure, he also cut the dogs throat:
http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2016/0...animal-cruelty-in-death-of-dog-at-state-park/
Interestingly, his actions were not universally condemmed at the time. For the old-timers down that way, that's how it used to work. There was apparently a change in state law sometime in the last 10 years, but until then it was legal to shoot a stray. Not that I agree with it, but that kind of country-folk thinking is hard to to root out.
Well, I don't live there but having grown up in the country I can't really think of any time it was ever normal to shoot any stray dog you saw in the woods and cut its throat. I remember the case in question and seemed to me like the guy was pretty universally despised by everyone that I heard talking about it anyway. I'm sure the Amish have their jerks too though just like everybody else.
Just my .02.
The Amish treat dogs pretty much the same way farmers treat chickens. They're a revenue source only - kept in squalor, bred like livestock, and
when they can't produce any more puppies they're slaughtered.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=5572228
...sadly, nothing much has changed since this happened. Puppy mills are
still rampant throughout Pennsylvania, especially Lancaster county, which
is known as the puppy mill capital of America.