Chesco sheep owner charged in killing of two dogs

[Xithras]

39. That's just it...

...it was vaguely written, so everyone applied their own experiences to it. People were arguing with each other over different things.

For what it's worth, for those of us who actually have lived amid farms and ranches, it's really not an "extreme scenario" by any stretch. While I had to recently move back "into town", I'd estimate that 2-3 dogs a year were shot on my old road in exactly that situation (not 2-3 by me, but 2-3 between the dozen or so farms on the road, annually). It's a tragically common situation for farmers and ranchers with land that is outside of town, but still somewhat close to it. People dump their dogs in the countryside, the dogs go semi-feral, and the farmers and ranchers have to intervene to protect their animals. This happens every single day in this country, and the "fault" lays 100% at the feet of the cruel assholes who dump their animals in the country to "set them free". They're not setting them free...they're consigning them to a cruel death by slow starvation, car bumper, or a farmers bullet.

Many of us jumped to that scenario, based on the vague original article, simply because it's such a common occurrence. I was wrong...I'll admit it here, and I admitted it in that thread. Once the FULL story came out, it became perfectly clear that this guy had no reason to shoot the dogs, and that he should be prosecuted for doing so.