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On the one hand, crazy missing and what a weird set of circumstances, on the other hand, most people have never and will never have to put down a dog for something besides old age and won't ever understand.
I'm fairly confident she is a giant piece of crap, but there's a large reader base that lived their entire life inside the burbs that wouldn't ever be onboard with putting an animal down yourself. People that have never watched the young friendly doggo run a cow to death or similar. It's sad and infrequent but it happens.
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Bunch of experts here thinking it was our cows he was running to death. Or that we could have afforded to replace them, or that Mr doggo nicely comes back when he's called and stops running animals in the middle of a field. It was unfortunate, dangerous, and a rifle problem.
Changed the wording to make it clear this was not a little puppy at the time.
I'm rural and had a dog ol'yellered once—he loved kids, tolerated women, and would do his very best to rip the throat out of any man. I understand that sometimes the dog can simply not be allowed to go on. But man, I can't wrap my head around expecting a shock collar to work as training, and then calling it a day after it attacks some chickens. A young dog with a prey drive might not be suited for working, but could easily be somebody's pet. It would have cost so little to give it a chance to have a good life.
Our son and his wife have a Malamute who, as near as anyone can tell, is a Poodle racist. He's totally OK around people, kids, and other dogs... UNLESS the other dog is a Poodle, he LOSES HIS SHIT.
We love you anyway, you racist fuck!
Somewhat similar situation here. We tried for more than 4 years with a dog that we got when she was 2 that had been surrendered back to a shelter. Incredibly strong reactive prey drive and crazy high anxiety, and we suspect trauma from her first home. We did everything we could to give her a safe, comfortable, and secure home. Fantastic with kids and most women, could become somewhat more comfortable with men working through a specific process. But if you invade her turf without prework, it wasn’t good. But it was clear she didn’t have a good quality of life and she was a significant risk.
Working with our vet to eventually put her to sleep was incredibly hard and I still feel like we failed her. We made sure her last days were good ones though, and she went out feeling love.
Well yes, you killed the dog because it was too much work for you.
For someone who has no idea the amount of active work, training, and therapy we did with her, you can fuck straight off with your anal-derived opinions and judgements you massive fuckstain.
Of course I'll judge someone who took an animal from a shelter then killed it because it was no longer convenient. You're the same as the person in the news article, just slightly more eloquent.
So... Don't put the dog around your cows if it wants to play? Seems like a really fucking simple solution.
Did you consider rehomng that puppy to a home with no cows? How is your first instinct to a dog living in a situation its unsuited to, "pull out a shot gun and blast it. Twice". Putting the dog down should really be a last resort.
It does indeed suck and you never forget every one of them. But I'd rather take the responsibility than put that on someone else.
My dog once crawled below my neighbour's chicken pen and killed 2 chickens.
Do you know what we didn't do? Kill the dog.
What did we do? Just buy him 2 new chickens of his choosing.
We now have a happy cute dog, and my neighbour still has chickens. He has never again killed a chicken.
A few years later a wild animal entered the pen and killed all of his chickens, but that's another story.