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Rex B wrote:The charges should be public record. No one knows what they are?
It remains to be seen whether they will stick once the furor dies down.

cb1000rider wrote:

TVGuy wrote: The story you posted was over a week old (the one I linked to was current as of yesterday), it seems that the investigation proved it was not in defense of livestock.

It's trivial to justify... There must be something else going on.

Rex B wrote:

TVGuy wrote: Since there is no mention of harming livestock, this isn't "satisfying public outcry". This is enforcing the law.

"According to a family friend, the incident happened at Tim Conatser's barn. That's where the dogs allegedly attacked Conatser's livestock and the property-owner shot and killed them.

Family friend Kevin Forester said Conatser found the dogs inside his barn a couple of days earlier, while they were attacking his calf, and recognized them as belonging to his neighbor.

“So he went over to his neighbor's and told him that his dogs was getting in his barn and attacking his animals, to please ya know keep 'em at home, put 'em on a leash, build a fence, do something," recalled Forester.

The friend says Conatser told him the neighbor didn't care."

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Rex B wrote:A good friend of mine kept guinea hens at his home. They ran in his unfenced 2-acre yard and never got close to the property line. Then a new family moved in nearby. Dad was a cop at a nearby large city. They had two large purebred dogs they were real proud of. Of course, my friend started losing a chicken or two shortly after, finding them mangled but not eaten. One evening he heard a commotion outside and saw both those dogs in his back yard, each with a chicken in it's mouth. He stepped outside and drilled both dogs with his 30-30. Then he loaded up the dogs in his pickup, drove to the neighbors house, dropped the tailgate, and said "Here's your dogs. You owe me $XX for the chickens they killed". He got paid.

It's long established in common law that if an animal is on your property attacking your livestock, you can kill it. The owner of that animal (if any) has no recourse.
This guy made it into an International Incident with his FB post. Now the local law enforcement are bound to investigate it, and try to find something to charge the guy with - just to satisfy the public outcry. Expensive lesson, that.

Kawabuggy wrote:middleageruss has it right. This guy failed in the very basic tenant of shutting yer pie-hole after solving the problem.

When I hear the animal lovers crying about the cruelty perpetrated on their beloved pet I want to ask them, and how do you feel when the same pet is hit & killed by a car because YOU were too stupid to secure your pet? Is it any different? Because a car hits it we like to call it "an accident". But when someone shoots it, it's a felony. Hmm... End result is the same, and either way it could have been avoided had the owner done THEIR job.

I'm not advocating shooting peoples pets but I am advocating placing responsibility on the pet owners for controlling their animals.

EEllis wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:Mistake #1 : Committing a felony (alleged)
Mistake #2: Bragging about it online.

Only a felony on the third offence. TPC 42.09

Sec. 42.092. CRUELTY TO NONLIVESTOCK ANIMALS. (a) In this section:

(b) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:

(1) tortures an animal or in a cruel manner kills or causes serious bodily injury to an animal;

(2) without the owner's effective consent, kills, administers poison to, or causes serious bodily injury to an animal;

An offense under Subsection (b)(1), (2), (7), or (8) is a state jail felony, except that the offense is a felony of the third degree if the person has previously been convicted two times under this section, two times under Section 42.09, or one time under this section and one time under Section 42.09.

The photo on Conatser's Facebook account showed two dogs, apparently shot to death, with the message, "Somebody didn't put any truth my warning. Keep your damn dogs on your property."