This just makes me ILL! How could this vet remain in practice. I wish we could go to the trial and throw things at him, like BRICKS!

This just makes me ILL! How could this vet remain in practice. I wish we could go to the trial and throw things at him, like BRICKS!

This just makes me ILL! How could this vet remain in practice. I wish we could go to the trial and throw things at him, like BRICKS!

Oops sorry for the multiple posts!

I'd like to offer another perspective.

There is a sign by where I live that says that dogs that worry or harm livestock can be killed.

My sister (in another area) let her dog run free. One of her neighbors told her that if her dog was found chasing the neighbor's horses again, the dog would be shot.

Trespassing with intent to harm justifies death. See the polices response to the previous time the vet killed a dog. The dog had killed 7 rabbits.

Before you laugh at the thought of a keller dachshund, remember that they were breed to hunt badgers. If a dachshund decided to go after chickens or rabbits that were in cages, the dachshund would be able to kill them. So the question is, was the dachshund "worrying" the chickens and rabbits? If it was, then the vet was justified in killing the dachshund.

How would you feel if a neighbors dogs was going onto your property and chasing your cat around? It is your property, and your pet. It is the other owners responsibility to control their pet. If they cannot, then their pet will suffer the consequences.

Sad but true.

Byna, had a pet dachshund named Sausage (we didn't name him).

Nothing justifies beating an animal to death with a mallet. Nothing!!

If my neighbor's dog was attacking my dog, on my property, and the only thing I had handy was a mallet, I sure as hell would kill my neighbor's dog with it, and not feel the least bit sorry afterwards.

Listen to me all of you.

Nothing justifies the death of a pet in any inhumane manner.

I do not care if a certain breed of dog was 'meant' to herd or hunt an animal, I do not care if it ate some fucking chickens or rabbits, especially if those animals were meant for food means. If it was a family pet (chicken or rabbit, it would be another story)

'Worrying' an animal is MUCH different than ripping it apart in the lawn and munching away on it.

Anyone who leaves an animal outside is asking for it for something eventually to happen to it. There are more ways to get rid of the problem than bashing an animal with a hammer and killing it.

So stop acting like a bunch of fucking neandertals and look at it in the persepective that a VETERINARIAN killed an animal in an INHUMANE manner. Thats what the story was put up for. Not for all of you to feel justified that a dog got whacked with a hammer.

If you feel you have to off an animal with a hammer or hang it or whatever, that makes you really pathetic.

Inhumane? What about the inhumanity of the dog's attack? Have you ever seen a dog ripping apart a cat before? It's not like the dog walks up, bites the cat once, and poof, Frisky's in kitty heaven. And it's definitely not like the dog is going to drop the cat and run away with its tail between its legs the minute you tap him on the head with a hammer.

If you don't have enough "inhumanity" in you to kill an animal to protect the people and pets you love, then I feel sorry for you.

People, especially those who work with animals, should know better than to act inhumanely regardless what they are presented with. They know animals don't have that knowledge. They also know that animals should be helped, and that if one has to die it should at least be as low pain as possible.

Excuse me but I will say this ONCE more. I AM A LICENSED VETERINARY TECHNICIAN!!! I have been in this fucking buisness for 10 fucking years. I am LICENSED IN 2 STATES and the Vice President of VALVT (Virginia Association for Licensed Veterinary Technicians) I think I know humanity towards animals MUCH more than you.

How dare you ask me if I have EVER seen a cat get ripped up by a dog. OF COURSE I HAVE! I HAVE SEEN WORSE. I have seen animals so fucked up you wish they came into your hospital dead so you do not have to put them to sleep- humanely.

You have NO idea what I have seen. I have worked in animal shelters and in private medicine. Now I specialize in feline only medicine.

So don't tell me what I have not seen. Buddy, you don't know the first bit of it.

I am MORE than humane. You only become PATHETIC when you STOP caring.

I am stunned by most of the replies on this issue.
Sherri seems to be the only female to post and she agrees with us. Do men just not get it, although I know Scott and Jeff would never, never hurt an animal like that.

My mother was always a lifelong liberal. Even to this day she refuses to have guns anywhere in the house, because she still believes guns are evil.

When I was four years old, I was attacked by a neighbor's dog that jumped over the fence into our yard while chasing a cat. I don't remember much of it, but I do remember that I made it out practically unharmed, because my mother was there... and she found enough "inhumanity" within herself to strangle the dog to death with her bare hands.

If she hadn't been willing to protect me, I would have died. If she had tried to protect me, but hadn't been willing to kill, the dog would have killed her first, and then me.

I suppose I can only hope that Olivia never gets attacked.

Yeah, she won't be. I'm just that careful around animals. Now I know where you get your anger and nastiness from.

Enough Ellen! No matter how careful you are around animals things like the attack on Tatterdemalian can happen. That is still no excuse for what happened with the Vet in Houston.

Excuse me? My site. My opinons.

My daughter-in-law, I agree with your opinions on this subject just not the harshness.

I can believe what I read! You two are making a good pair! Of clowns, of course. You ... technician, have you ever had lamb chop? Have ever ate chinesse buffet? How about a good steak? Well, listen miss (or mr. I don't know because your name is feminine, but your vocabulary realy belongs to the Neandertal), learn that I worked in buchery for 25 years, and I know that there isn't any unhumanly killing. OK? Every killing under the sun starts and ends with humans. Did you watch Animal Planet in the last couple of centuries. Well find out mrs. that the animals fight each other until one of them gives up. And the fight is over. Humans, though go all the way to the end. Yea , kill those bastards Iraquis whose actions are against the reform. Why? Because we all want supremacy. The same thing in the veterinarian case. On either part of the story you put yourself, you are right. By the way, as a personal opinion, I never ate a dog, but I enjoy eating chicken. So, killing a dog...who cares? Kiling 7 chicks...I do.

Talk about being a cave man Gene. Being a butcher is far different than being a vet.

I knew you will hit the person not the argument. The only detail that your slow mind missed is that working in a butchery doesn't make me the butcher, miss (or mr...). And now back to our subject; I already wrote a positive letter to the wrongly acussed vet, assurring him of my personal support. If neccesary I will travel down there to organize a peaceful protest. Do you wanna come over and play?? I would enjoy the debate. Long live KFC, long live Chicks!

Go ahead and organize your personal protest. To each his own opinion of the case.