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"You know you can't fix this -- once she has a taste for killing, she'll do it again." Yep, and that's sad. It reminds me of a certain cruelty that truly tick

"You know you can't fix this -- once she has a taste for killing, she'll do it again." Yep, and that's sad. It reminds me of a certain cruelty that truly ticked me off about people. Sometimes when people get cute puppies for Xmas and the puppy grows, people will ditch the now-dog in a rural area expecting them to be found and grow up on a farm[1]. These dogs will turn feral and start killing small animals. Sometimes they group up into a pack and then attack larger animals (sheep, sometimes horses, and well kids). The only recourse is to hunt them down. Its a sad end that shouldn't have to happen. 1) yes, this sounds stupid when I write it but many of your fellow humans live in a bit of a fantasy land.

dbg31415 10y ago
This is accurate for the rural area I grew up. It was never clear where the dogs came from, there was a small town about 10 miles away, we assumed many of the dogs had gotten loose... or picked up some other poorly trained dogs from other ranches. But... entirely possible people were letting dogs loose that they just didn't want to take care of. The end result was a pack of 5-10 dogs that loved to chase cattle. What was always hardest about shooting those dogs was that it was hard to get in a clean shot. Typically it took a few shots to bring them down, and often you'd have to go up close to finish it off. Once it was hurt, it stopped being a ferocious animal that was attacking your livestock and turned back into someone's whimpering pet. By the point you had shot it in the back hip, and side... it knew you were coming to kill it. In the end it was confused, and hurt, and scared, and alone. Couldn't help but feel that people had failed those animals.