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Emperor1956 -> RE: "Dropping off" an animal ... (2/21/2009 2:32:49 PM)
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FR: What do I think, Firmhand? Well I am so glad you asked.
I think you are ignorant, selfish and ultimately in fact cruel to these dogs. You are an animal abuser. And your arrogance has you clothing it as something "humane".
Let's parse this out. You have read above the arguments (well made) of your ignorance in dumping the animal "in the wild". You are simply pushing your problem on someone else. I don't need to repeat those arguments. However, you are also selfish, in that you are choosing to salve your weak-minded conscience by claiming that you are being 'moral and respectful'. In fact, you are shirking responsiblity and selecting out animals to suffer, with no regard for their future. And you are cloaking your cowardice in your self-justification. Why don't you simply sell the "excess animals" to a testing lab, or better yet, a dog fighting club? Then you can be your badass macho self and make some money too! The outcome for the animal -- likely misery -- is the same.
But worst of all, you are abusive. No one else has focused on your oh-so-manly comment: they were dangerous, or could not be trained to respect the physical integrity of the children, they were put down locally (usually with a 9 mm). So, first, as one shooter to another, why a 9mm? There is no reason to use a round that big, with that much muzzle velocity, to "put down" a dog and in fact it is very possible that the dog will not die a humane, painless death. Bet you couldn't wait to kill something with your pistol. But you had to make sure your admiring little chickadees who read your every word on CM knew you used a BIG MAN's gun, didn't you?
In fact, only a cruel person (or maybe a psychopath?) would shoot a dog to euthanize it. Dogs survive head trauma amazingly well. Can you swear that EVERY animal 'disposed of' this way died immediately? I have worked in animal rescue for over 20 years and I have had "dead" dogs with head trauma wake up after being shot, clubbed or hit by a car. They aren't at all healthy, but they aren't dead. The only ethical and humane way to euthanize a dog is to use a drug cocktail administered intervenously, or to use a gas/decompression chamber. But, hey, Firmhand, that would take all the fun out of it, wouldn't it?
Normally I ignore these posts. But congratulations, you have disgusted me into telling you exactly how I feel. Now if you care to atone for your considerable wrongdoing, you'll make a sizeable donation to an AHSA-affiliated animal shelter in your area. I'd say about $5000 would begin to erase the stain. BEGIN to. And THEN post the cancelled check, and maybe you could lecture us all on your morals?
E.
PS: Kiyari, we do rescue here. Current count is 3 dogs, 1 cat, 3 birds. We do have one purebred, purchased cat (our last breeder-purchased animal before we decided that it was unnecessary to support animal breeding, although we both love purebreds). Unfortunately there are now enough reckless "animal lovers" that even papered purebreds can be found in shelters and rescue societies. (and my profile is available on here...but oddly you need to type in 'Emperor'. Dunno why, but CM never fixed it so I could have the same name in two places.)
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