Reply #74: Understand that I do love dogs.

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In quite a few states it is perfectly legal to shoot dogs. In fact, under the proper circumstances in my own state, I can make a dog owner shoot his own dog or go to jail.

I have put down several strays before. People have this bad habit of abandoning dogs that do not fit their lifestyle. The dogs may have grown too big, be an outside breed, clash with the curtains, etc. The problem is that they dump them off in the country on the assumption that fluffy will either find a good home or be able to survive in the wild.

We do not have big "Dog disposal site" signs in our yards and are not in the dog ranching business. Those dogs are not our problems. Most of us already have all the dogs we can handle. When forced, we have a habit of solving problems with animals with a firearm. That two cent stray is not worth the cost of an eight hundred dollar cow and barely worth the cost of a bullet. A dog that runs cattle is a dead dog, even if it is my own.

That being said, I have no major issues with the dog shooting itself, just how piss poor it was carried out.

Praise the dog, pet it, make it happy. A slice of bologna tossed on the ground will fix the dogs attention and give proper aspect to it's skull so that when the dog is shot, it is instant death. There is nothing worse than an animal dying in fear and pain.