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Feb. 19, 2013 1:28pm Liz Klimas

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An Oklahoma high school student has received death threats and left town after he posted a picture of a pit bull he had killed with a bow and arrow on Facebook.

In addition to the picture, the post by 18-year-old Caisen Green read, ”For all you pit lovers out there. Here’s what happens when one shows up around my house.”

Oklahoma Teen Caisen Green Posts Picture of Pit Bull Shot With Arrow on Facebook

This image has since been removed from Facebook and Green’s page as a whole has been disabled for the time being. (Image: Facebook via Daily Mail)

The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the issue, but authorities said in a press release that Green has not been available for questioning as he left the area due to death threats he had been receiving, KJRH reported. Undersheriff Jason Chennault asked in the release for people to stop making threats against Green and his Green family and noted that those making threats could be subject to prosecution.

“I understand people don’t want to see animals hurt,” Chennault told the Muskogee Phoenix. “But death threats are not going to help the situation.”

The Phoenix went on to report Chennault saying that the department needs more information about the events surrounding the dog’s death.

“It’s a gray area,” Chennault said to the Phoenix. “If the dog is threatening livestock or your well-being, you can do what you have to do stop it. I’m going to do my best to get everything done this week, and we’ll forward the report to the (District 27) District Attorney’s Office.”

Fox 23 reported these thoughts from local residents regarding the photo:

“He needs to be punished the right way, and not by people doing something to him,” says Tahlequah resident, Charles York.

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“Something needs to be done and he shouldn’t be able to get away with killing a dog like that and putting it on facebook and have nothing done to him,” says Jennifer Tillison.

Fox 23 also reported that Green is expected to give a statement to law enforcement with his attorney Tuesday.

Officials with the local humane society are reported as saying they were shocked by the post but wouldn’t seek jail time as punishment as they don’t feel it would change Green’s attitude toward the breed.

“It would be better for him to have to work community service, maybe 100 hours in a facility to where he can learn and be around people who love dogs and understand dogs lives,” Humane Society of Cherokee County board member Lou Hays told KJRH-TV.

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FiscalBill
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:18pm
Not enough details to pass judgement. Fun fact: Rabid animal lovers will threaten to kill your whole family if they think you’ve abused an animal. I dont think they are kidding either.

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- banjarmon
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:28pm
  Is there a collar on the animal?? If not fair game, if there is, the owner need to be charged for not keeping his animal under control!
  
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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:28pm
  Gut shot from the side. The dog wasn’t coming at him, so unless some one else was being attacked and comes forth to testify such, the boy needs to be “educated”.
  
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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:31pm
  The dog owner also would be prosecuted (rightly or wrongly) in my state for not keeping his dog under control……was it chasing Chickens ? Kids ?
  
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- JMadison
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Pitbull on my property. It would never make it home I have 10 acres of empty fields says you will never find it either besides pets make good cougarcandy.
  
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- Face...Palm
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:00pm
  I’ve never been pit or attacked by any dog other than a Pit Bull. My friend was working on my car in my drive way and the neighbor’s Pit Bull wandered over. Without any warning he dropped, barked and charged about 3 feet from my friend. We managed to chase him off.
  
  Point is, I wouldn’t get close enough to one of those off a leash to check its friendly or not.
  
  aim, shoot, done.
  
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- GrandpaOf4
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:09pm
  I agree. Not enough information EXCEPT it was poor judgement to post this picture and that statement. I have small grandchildren around my property all the time. If I dog like that comes on the property something might happen but I’m not going to be an idiot and post the results. Instead of being on the internet I might be busy with a shovel.
  
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- mattmo79
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:22pm
  Just goes to show you how screwed up liberals are, can’t kill a dog, but feel free to murder the unborn!
  
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- horsehockey
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:56pm
  BANJARMON, good point, I can’t make out a collar in the pic, so fair game, people need to control their animals especially Pitbulls. To me, just another nuisance animal off the street.
  
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- CHEWYRUNTS
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:31pm
  Ban all bows and arrows. Can’t wait for this garbage to come out
  
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- CobraBill
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:55pm
  I am willing to bet 9 out of 10 of you could not tell an American Pitbull from an American Bulldog or an American Staffordshire Terrier or English Staffordshire Terrier.
  I have a Shepard Lab mix people swear is as part Pitbull.
  Being Prolife, abortion has nothing to do with this,Alcohol and cars kill thousands we could out law them too. Smoking kills hundreds of thousands. Why even bring this up?
  Pits do not kill 7000 people a year 1 post said.
  38 U.S. fatal dog attacks occurred in 2012.2 Despite being regulated in Military Housing areas and over 600 U.S. cities,3 pit bulls contributed to 61% (23) of these deaths. Pit bulls make up less than 5% of the total U.S. dog population.4
  Together, pit bulls (23) and rottweilers (3), the second most lethal dog breed, accounted for 68% of all fatal attacks in 2012. In the 8-year period from 2005 to 2012, this combination accounted for 73% (183) of the total recorded deaths (251).
  The breakdown between pit bulls and rottweilers is substantial over this 8-year period. From 2005 to 2012, pit bulls killed 151 Americans, about one citizen every 19 days, versus rottweilers, which killed 32, about one citizen every 91 days.
  Annual data from 2012 shows that 50% (19) of the victims were adults, 21-years and older, and the other half were children, ages 8-years and younger. Of the total children killed by dogs in 2012, 79% (15) were ages 2-years and younger.
  I don’t care what kind of dog you have, keep it on a leash and away from childr
  
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- travis reynolds
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:07pm
  I saw kill his ass. The kid murdered this dog, so murder him
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:05pm
  If a Punk like this killed my cat because it came on to his property, He would not be running from the Authorities. He would be running to them for protection
  
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- Captain Crunch
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:24pm
  I am a dog lover. My $2200.00 vet bill to save my mixed shepard is proof of it. This is truely a pathetic thing this person did to that dog. But what is even more pathetic is how people get all upset over animals being mistreated but could give a snot rag full of excrement less about the millions YES MILLIONS of human babies we let be murdered….BUTCHERED….by the abortion industry. AMAREICA YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!
  
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- destin0873
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:23pm
  I agree. But if any animal is on my property and shows any aggression, I’m shooting it. If the owner of said animal shows up on my property and shows aggerssion and I feel threatened, he’s shot too.
  
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- 1947
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:42pm
  That boy needs HELP …. you do post things that
  
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- Gorp
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:32pm
  @ CobraBill: I really don’t care what they look like. I am an animal lover from way back. However, if any dog comes at me with ill content they are fair game, so to speak. I don’t really care what animals come onto my property as long as they have good intentions, like most of the dogs in our neighborhood. I had to put my GSD down this past Fall but sort of adopted the Lab he played with. Daisy lives two doors down and comes over all the time for loving and treats. And she gets them both. Her “parents” don’t mind either. But like I said, if a bada$$ dog comes onto the property it’s fair game.
  
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- JohnofOregon
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:07pm
  @fiscalbill,
  I agree, not enough info.
  
  Fun fact: pit bulls go for the crotch. A lot of liberal mens get their start this way.
  
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- guitarspook
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:55pm
  Fun fact: The Dog was gut shot, with an ARROW. This means a slow moving animal facing broadside. Attacking a someone? really? Yout telling me you would defend yourself in a high stress, fast paced situation with a bow and arrow? Anyone rooting for this animal cruelty douchebag should be gut shot with an arrow as well. That beautiful animal perished SLOWLY. Pretty damn sure i wouldn’t defend my family or property with something as “accurate” as a bow. How many duck or pheasent hunters use bows? This picture is worth a thousand incriminating words. $100 bucks says the DA is going to beat this douche like a drum. If an animal needs put down use your local vet or if necessary a high powered and well placed shot!!! I love animals and give them the respect God expects of his creations. They feel pain same as you or I!
  
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- puravida56
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:11pm
  I agree, not enough info to pass judgement. That said, Im hope this kid doesnt have an AR. He has no common sense and enjoys killing things.
  
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- t00nces2
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:24am
  Travis, you cannot “murder” an animal. People are the only lives that can be “murdered”.
  
  Pit Bull breeds are trouble. They were bred as anti dog breeds and instinctively protect their perceived area from members of “packs” other than their own… Be that a dog or person. Pit Bull owners will trash me, but I have been around many, many dogs, and many pit bull breeds are very tweeky.
  
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- Anamah
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:27pm
  Here we have a sociopath, a sick individual with violence and maybe murder in his future… Some people choose deny the fact that this is an abnormal and very sadistic behavior.
  
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- rp454
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 5:41pm
  The problem with pit bulls is usually the stupid owner who thinks it’s cool to teach the dog to attack.
  
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- evolved pagan
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:16pm
  I have always considered myself a conservative but after reading so many ignorant comments regarding the ugly, cruel, and sick shooting of a pit bull, I am beginning to think the liberals might be right about conservatives. I might be a liberal. That might be hard to choke down, but not as hard as being lumped with this level of insensitive stupidity. I have lived with dogs all my life. I have kept from 6 to 12 at a time since 1972. I love my dogs and keep them in, but on two occasions someone has broken my locked gait and let my dogs out. Should they be shoot? They don’t wear collars because that is unsafe and they are in my secure yard. Add to this that a pit bull or part pit bull wondered onto my parents, my 80 something parents, yard after being abandoned and they took her in. You could never find a more loving trustworthy dog. Should she have been shot because of her breed? She had the biggest heart I have ever seen. They lived safely with her for the rest of all of their lives and so did their little dog and so did my small dogs. One thing I can assure you of is a teen who behaves like this by killing the dog and posting it, did not do it because the dog was doing anything wrong. He is sick and will probably go on to kill people in the future. Animal abuse is a good indicator of future human abuse (killing). So for all of you fools that don’t have enough evidence, there is no moral excuse for this act including posting this sick photo. Tthat is all th
  
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Schmuckatelli97
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:18pm
Pit bulls have been over bread and inbred for so long the breed as a whole is a lost cause. I don’t care if the one that you or your friend has is nice and sweet. There are exceptions to every rule. However, with all of the issues surrounding the breed they should all be eradicated as a public safety measure.

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- txannie
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:32pm
  The breeder that pretty much started the breed back in the late 1800′s had his best stud kill his 2 year old nephew, even though the child had been around the dogs since birth. I found this out after doing research on the breed to see if it would make a good farm/ranch dog. Evidently this breed has had a penchant for attacking any time it feels like it from day one. Anyone that thinks they can breed this tendancy out is delusional. As for this instance, not enough info to make a judgement and anyone calling for killing a person because of a dog is also delusional.
  
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- Granny58
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:17pm
  It’s a pity, but I agree with you.
  
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- AMickey1126
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:31pm
  Is ignorance bliss for you?
  
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- Skinner
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:46pm
  Nearly every vicious dog attack has been from a pit bull. Although I dont know why this story is on the blaze.
  
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- horsehockey
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:04pm
  TXANNIE, Amen to that, Pitbulls are dangerous, latent or not, anyone who thinks otherwise is daft.
  
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:17pm
Pit Bulls should be outlawed ! They kill more people than Guns ! I would have done the same on my property – I have children to protect and these things are dangerous.

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- Stoic one
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:47pm
  KUPO
  
  False dichotomy
  
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- tyuchic
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:48pm
  point of clarification. i think the point was about “guns”.
  
  “guns don’t kill people….bla bla bla”.
  
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- Mapache
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:17pm
  He must have read it on the internet somewhere, 7,000 people yearly killed by pit bulls in the USA!
  
  Now I hope Socialistslayer feels stupid.
  
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- CobraBill
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:30pm
  Guns don’t kill, people kill.
  
  Together, pit bulls (23) and rottweilers (3), the second most lethal dog breed, accounted for 68% of all fatal attacks in 2012. In the 8-year period from 2005 to 2012, this combination accounted for 73% (183) of the total recorded deaths (251).
  The breakdown between pit bulls and rottweilers is substantial over this 8-year period. From 2005 to 2012, pit bulls killed 151 Americans, about one citizen every 19 days, versus rottweilers, which killed 32, about one citizen every 91 days.
  That’s 251 total killed by all dogs in seven to eight years.
  Hardly anywhere near the number killed by people using guns.
  
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- cgnick
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:43pm
  If you do kill one, pick it up and dispose of it. Don’t post it on Facebook. This kid was not to smart.
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:10pm
  If we could save just one child.
  
  The lives that would be saved by outlawing pit bulls…
  
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- castuslonginus
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:33pm
  Maybe the kid had a reason to kill the dog, just because he was shot in the side doesn’t mean a thing. The animal could have been aggressive before and came back. If it had no collar,he may have been a throw down,doesn’t take long for one to become feral. I live in a rural area( or it used to be) and folks that didn’t want a dog will just drive them out into the country and turn them loose. If you can’t take them to the shelter, or someone else doesn’t want them,it’s better to put them down. A bullet behind the head and it’s over. Do not turn them loose on the countryside,very cruel.
  
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Ted Sheckler
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:17pm
If he has livestock around his place he was well within his rights (in Oklahoma), I have done the same thing (in Oklahoma) but not with a bow a I did not post picks of it that was dumb

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- Taitatron
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:47pm
  Ted Sheckler, How is business at the Pit Bull emporium? Linger Longer.
  
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- Ted Sheckler
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:56pm
  It’s going great thanks for asking. I just got a shipment of cabbage patch kids in, you see after we sharpen the dog’s teeth with a file.
  We then hide little treats in the cabbage patch kids and smack the dogs over the head with the cabbage patch kids, and tell them no and tell them to behave.
  That way when you take them home the dogs wont eat the misses shoes.
  I am also looking for testers to see if they have peanut butter allergy’s you see I only sell grade A certified non allergenic pit bulls at my Emporium.
  
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- smokie
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:14pm
  Is no one wondering how one arrow took this dog out? Ever see a video of police shooting a pitbull. Bullets are like Lays Potato Chips to these dogs, they just don’t stop at one.
  
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- TH777
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:17pm
  @Evolved: I can’t wait until you “evolve” into a human being with intelligence and a heart. Think that will ever happen? I don’t.
  
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Just_Us2
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:16pm
Kill a dog…the media and dog lovers go nuts….abort millions of kid..meh. We live in a sick world when the death of a dog raises more anger and ire than does the death of a baby.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:23pm
  Too much common sense in that post. Scale back, it can hurt the uninitiated.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:24pm
  False dichotomy.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:30pm
  Kupo please enlighten. I love dichotomy’s wrapped in riddles of enigma with tarragon.
  
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- Just_Us2
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:42pm
  False dichotomy – you are either more upset about the dog dying over babies or, you are less upset. It either gets more attention or it doesn’t. To have a third option of equality would be ignoring factual evidence. Therefore, your assignment of a logical fallacy is itself and logical fallacy.
  
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- Evolved
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:09pm
  They’re not babies, idiot. The vast majority of terminations occur before the fetus can survive outside the womb. Therefore they’re still parasites. Yeah, let’s not give people a choice and force everyone to carry every baby. You want another 50 million on Medicaid?
  
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- Granny58
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:19pm
  not only that, but I have an abuse and (finally) killed cat on my facebook page urging people to keep their eyes open for the perps (who freely show themselves). a little outrage over that would be good too. outrage over cruelty is always appropriate.
  
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- malbro
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:31pm
  Who’s baby are we talking about???
  
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- Bodacious_Boedi
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:38pm
  Flawed logic. Embryos and the fetus aren’t sentient/aware/conscious. Of course, you’re going to tell me you scrawled graffiti and your mom’s phone number on the inner wall of the womb when you were gestating?
  
  I’m pro choice and I’m not even a woman. I’m a dog lover who thinks this kid needs a beating that’ll leave him time to reflect in his body cast.
  
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- Kumo
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:01pm
  What a waste, the kid should have contacted some fresh off the boat Koreans or Chinese instead of posting a FB pic. They would have made a couple of meals out of it.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:30pm
  We are talking about the babies the parasitic Devolved wants to abort by way of fluffy Pit Bulls.
  
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- tomcat11767
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:18pm
  Evolved,
  When I meet the human being that was never an embryo, then I will believe that abortion is not murder.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:40pm
  MorsiEngineer69 you managed to work Jews/Israel into a dead Pit Bull story? Morsi approves. You are eat up with it. In a parallel, were you just a dog, you would be looked over until you expired in a non humane way. Keep barking.
  
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- midcoastmainepatriot
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:04pm
  Devolved…..posting for @ a week now…….Welcome Troll….Now go back to moms basement… or the Huffpo ….you’re not wanted here………or anywhere else on Earth……SCREW !!!!!!!! You worthless F$#K
  
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pma_guy
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:12pm
So, is this worse than barack obama and his liberal henchmen murdering babies in and out of the womb?

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- txannie
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:20pm
  Good point.
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:47pm
  ..NO… Murdering unborn & born children is definitely worse, but how you compare this story to that is beyond me ???..The people making death threats are most likely dog lovers (like me) so what makes you think that they are all liberal–commie –baby killers ?????????
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:54pm
  .
  btw…..yes i’m a dog lover but i wouldn’t make those kind of threats to this idiot
  
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Stoic one
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:11pm
Other than the sensation highlights…… I really do not have enough information to have an opinion . Perhaps the Blaze can do the due diligence on this story and give us a FOLLOW-UP story say next week? Most of the folks I see posting here day in and day out will most likely be THRILLED , as I would, to have the COMPLETE story …say next week?

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- circleDwagons
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:24pm
  Sorry Stoic One. The Blaze is not very good on follow ups. I’m still wainting on what ever happened to the lady in Georgia that was blowing up toilets in her back yard.
  
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308btsp
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:10pm
Self defense is one thing. But posting this saying this is what happens to pit bulls that come on my property is something else. That is one sick individual.

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- KevINtampa
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:26pm
  I think it raises a needed awareness.
  
  Not trolling, I mean that. As a dog owner people need to know dogs are animals and if you don’t control your animal bad things will happen to it.
  
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- whatdoibelieve
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:25pm
  What if that was a dog that has harassed him in the past? What if it is a dog that has attacked him in the past. He may have just be posting it out of his frustration of having to deal with a potentially dangerous dog that some neglectful owner was able to keep control of.
  
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KevINtampa
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:07pm
I’m the biggest dog lover there is. My dog is sweet and wouldn’t hurt a fly. That said, if she wondered into a neighbors yard and that neighbor shot her it’s my neighbor’s prerogative; and my dumba55 fault for not properly minding to my animal.

I’ve taken the time to introduce my dog to my neighbors so if she ever does show up on their land they are aware of who to call and that it’s not a stray or sick animal.

I understand why someone would shoot a dog on their land or in their neighborhood. My sister was attacked by a pit bull that bolted out of it’s owner’s house while he was taking the garbage out. At the time she was walking a 3 month old in a stroller down the sidewalk across the street from the house. My nephew was fine but my sister took over 300 stitches to her leg and arms before the animal was pried off of her. She now carries a snub nose .38 +P. I guarantee if she sees an unfamiliar and unleashed dog anywhere near her she’s going to shoot it.

While this kid posting this on FaceBook might seem tacky, at least it raises a needed awareness. It is not his job to go outside to see if this animal is sick or dangerous. It’s on his land and he isn’t Caesar Milan. It is his prerogative on his land to shoot first and not place himself in potential danger.

This is a lesson every K9 owner should respect and never forget.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:21pm
  Well said.
  
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- Kupo
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:26pm
  Shooting a dog to protect your safety or property is one thing. Posting a photo on FB as some sort of macabre e-trophy is something completely different. This kid is pretty twisted. I have little doubt that he got a thrill out of killing it.
  
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- joex51
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:26pm
  the only point that makes any part your argument valid is you sister was attacked by a Poorly trained Animal… never mind what breed it is… to shoot an animal that roams on your property and is not menacing at all, is wrong (unless it is for food)… so what your saying is animals never get confused or lost… roam around looking for a friendly face… what your advocating is that if some poor lost FRIENDLY dog looking for some help to find it’s home walks on to someone else’s property it is OK to blast it for no apparent reason… and you call you self a dog lover? you might love your dog because you have taken the proper steps with it but by not thinking of all the possibilities it indicates you are not a “dog” lover….
  
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- seanscythe
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:32pm
  @ everyone complaining about how cruel this is STFU!
  
  This “Dog” is not a pet anymore than a tiger raised from a cub is. I’m sick of all of these Pitbull lovers whining about how they are only bad if the owner is bad. I’ve seen to many times and to many stories of how that is pure BS. The Pitbull was in his yard, I’m sure it wasn’t the first time. I have a little girl and my own yard if she would have been playing in the yard and this animal came into it, it would have killed her. Quit Judging this kid, yes he shouldn’t have posted it on facebook but that’s his only mistake. This breed of dog is dangerous, they are like a light switch and just because you haven’t had a problem with yours doesn’t mean it won’t go off as it ages or the situation. I have two dogs that I keep in my yard at all times and behind a 6′ fence, I had neighbors letting their dogs roam our subdivision and one of them is a Pit. I carry a gun with me around my home because it’s a large dog and the owners attempt at keeping it locked in his yard is poor at best.
  
  Dogs are good if they have good owners, but this breed is worst once they snap the damage they do is horrible. You ever try to get between them if a cat falls near them and you will loose more than your arm. I seen a small child playing with the family pet and when the kid fell the dog sprang to pin him down and started wrapping it’s mouth around the kids head. Luckily we were able to pull it off before he was hurt.
  
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- iglooanne
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:03pm
  Can I hear an amen? This story and another thread (baseball one) were ripe with comments about how “sweet loving and dedicated” pit bulls are. I for one am sick and tired of so called dog lovers excusing away their breeds bad behavior. Any dog can turn and attack a human or other animal. That being said, there are definitely breeds that are more predisposed to aggression than others, many of them are bred for just that purpose. Why do herding dogs nip and bite more? Because they originally were bred to do that (to sheep and goats)! Why do rots and dobermans bark and bite? Because they are working dogs bred to guard things! Why do bull terriers, pit bulls and bull dogs bite hard and hold on? Because they were bred to grab BULLS’ noses and hold on! Why do my Vizslas and Weims retrieve fresh cat poop? Because they retrieve and they like the taste!
  I am a dog lover who has told my neighbors that if my dogs ever escape their electric fence and act aggressive they should be shot–it is not worth their children getting bitten or attacked.
  I have shot two of my a**hole neighbors dogs (after 4 years of warnings) after they chased my horses and killed my cats. I would do it again in a heartbeat too.
  A dog that is running loose is a dog that is dangerous. All you bleeding heart dog lovers try and tell my children that their favorite barn kitty, pony or rabbit, on our own property, was worth less than some moron’s loose dog need to get your head out of your butts.
  
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jungle J
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:06pm
pit bulls are like you may have known one that was friendly but when you turn your back or a pack of them show up….you know

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- naughtycal
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:24pm
  I know dozens of pitbull owners and not has a vicious dog. Fact is pits are some of the most playful dogs you’ll ever see. The breed has been around for over a century Petey on the little rascals was a pit. Animal is what its handlers makes it.
  
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karen162
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:04pm
Wow. If the Gov’t were to ever misuse the NDAA, this is how I would do it. Post a graphic picture of an animal killed. Put up an incriminating post on a now defunct Facebook page, and presto. You’re gone and no one cares. Too easy.

Not saying that’s what happened here, but every day I can think of more and more ways the gov’t could misuse power in the future.

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- KevINtampa
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:23pm
  Good point.
  
  People don’t realize that under NDAA you disappear. No one, and I mean no one, knows why you are gone or if you died.
  
  We had a gentleman here in the bay area disappear last summer while kayaking. They found the kayak but never found a body. He was known by friends to be incredibly paranoid about the government and had told people “they” were after him.
  
  People just assumed he developed delusions and the common consensus is that he drowned, which is most likely the case, although he was in shape and an experienced swimmer and kayaker. BUT with something as evil as NDAA, there’s no telling if he was actually picked up, it is POSSIBLE. Under NDAA there’s no lawyer, phone call, or notice. You simply disappear and local authorities search for you because they are not told either, family with out any answers misses you, someone else is plugged into your job and you are gone. That is the power last year’s NDAA gave our alphabet soup agencies. I really don’t think people have grasped the severity of it, or the potential psychological effect it will have on families with missing persons. When someone goes missing the mind can go into some really dark places in search of hope.
  
  Welcome to Amerika, home of the subject and land of the slave.
  
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- karen162
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:47pm
  KevinTampa,
  
  Tragic story, I do hope they find the man. Your point has been made by countries many times over throughout history, but people here in this country think nothing like that could ever happen. Perhaps it never will, if we stay vigilant like our Founders warned us. But, we do need to get repeal some dangerous legislation that has been passed, that’s for certain.
  
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00100111
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:03pm
Death threats huh? Say it ain’t so. You mean the loving, tolerant, accepting liberals are threatening death on someone who did something outside of their world view? If the dog encroached on his property because it was left loose and off leash, he was in his rights to terminate the dog. Posting the picture may have been classless. If he intentionally sought out a pit to shoot, there’s a problem, but if it was on his property and became threatening, then he was within his rights. Heck, cops shoot dogs just because they woke up that morning and got a wild ****.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:50pm
  This story will get 200 posts and one about the stock market or inflation/devalued dollar with get 30.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:49pm
  266 posts at last count and sequestration looming…1 dog, 1 dumb teen, vs 800k jobs. Fun times.
  http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/operations/283981-pentagon-tells-congress-it-will-furlough-800k-civilian-workforce
  
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MR_B
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:02pm
Does anyone here actually know what happened here? Before we hang and quarter this person we should find out if there was cause for his actions. As for posting this, it was very tasteless and opened himself up to ridicule and discuss.

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Berbel73
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:01pm
This kid needs to be institutionalized now as it is a well known fact that most serial killers start out by killing and torturing animals when they were children, and this probably isn’t the first time this kid has done such a thing to an animal.

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:13pm
  maybe the dog owners should have kept their dog under control. A pit bull running free is not safe for anyone. That said, this kid is a complete moron for posting this on facebook.
  
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- whatdoibelieve
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:05pm
  Wow, lets just lock him up without knowing all the facts. Better yet, lets just make up facts and throw them out there while we are at it. Let’s flip it around. Ever consider that maybe this dog had attacked him in the past and the reason he seems so happy about killing it was because he was finally rid of the menace?
  
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- Berbel73
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:52pm
  @whatdoibelieve, did you read what this kid posted? Obviously not. Give me a break if you think that this kid didn’t take pleasure in killing this animal, his posting says it all. Well when this kid in the years to come goes on a rampage and kills a bunch of people what excuse will you come up with then?
  
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- whatdoibelieve
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:21pm
  @Berbel73
  
  You make a lot of assumptions in life. Yes I did read what he wrote. Dumb idea to post it on Facebook but your assumption of his motive is premature without all the facts. What if he didn’t actually shoot the animal? Many have suggested that the wound doesn’t look like a normal arrow shot. What if the dog attacked him several times in the past? Maybe his response is out of frustration with the dog. There are too many “what-ifs” to come to conclusions without the facts. Same thing happened to George Zimmerman, remember? If it was a wild hog instead of a dog would you feel the same? Because in my opinion, a wild dog and a wild hog have the same value… virtually none.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:01pm
Dogs take after their owners. They become what they are taught. That’s why man has been using dogs for thousands of years. It does not matter if it is a pit bull or a poodle, a hunting dog or a show dog. They respond to the pack. If a dog goes bad, there is an ‘owner’ behind it somewhere.

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Cavallo
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:57pm
It isn’t WHAT he did, it is WHY he seemed to do it. It seemed spiteful and cruel. If he had posted the exact same picture and stated instead, “This Pit Bull came on my property and menaced me. Please, if you love your dogs, as I love mine, keep them in your own yards and collared and neutered.”

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- Xanderson
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:02pm
  Well said!
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:57pm
  I used to live in Brownsville TX until a similar scenario occurred when a Chihuahua came after my ankle and I got the crossbow out on the lil bastid. Turns out, they fit in a tortilla just right.
  
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- whatdoibelieve
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:58pm
  ” It seemed spiteful ”
  
  First, this is why I hate facebook. Second, like everyone else is saying, we don’t have all the info. What if the dog had been on his property before. I had a pit bull kill my caged pet rabbit after it shredded the cage. I know the dog and if it ever came back into my yard I would kill it without hesitation with a smile on my face. I bought a gun specifically for that scenario. Maybe a bit spiteful, but I am not going to take a chance that my child is next.
  
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huey6367
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:55pm
He is blaming the dog for poor owners of these wonderful animals. Pit bulls are very friendly but protective animals. The owenrs of these animals are the ones to blame. the owners should be locked up. The animal doesn’t know any different.

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:15pm
  friendly until they rip your arm off.
  
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- nonofmybiznez
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:57pm
  Or attack my dog while we are walking on a leash. I carry a big stick and bear spray but its the first bite that can kill. I don’t like strays. Keep yur dog on a leash or in yur own yard and there will be no problems like this.
  
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Rowgue
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:51pm
If the dog came onto their property they had every right to kill it. Now if he went out in the woods and hunted the thing down or something that’s a different story.

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- TotallyNotATroll
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:01pm
  The fact that he published the picture with that caption indicates to me that he probably wasn’t just defending his livestock or his property. You don’t act like that unless you are a) an idiot probably needing institutionalization, or b) a psychopath.
  
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- joex51
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:09pm
  are you stupid? apparently so making a statement,, that you have no facts to backup… if the animal did not threaten anyone or anything on the property he has the right to shoot it? really? last time i checked there is NO Pit-bull season anywhere in this country….. thats the same as saying because a deer was walking through the yard he had the right to shoot it, hell a salesman walking up to the door on his property think before you post….
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:45pm
  Salesman and dog/pit have zero parallel. Private property and known vicious breed perhaps have a recipe of a different flavor. Not enough facts, and yes, the punk was over zealous in his pic and posting. Perhaps someone local to the story can post a follow up to see if the 18 yo punk got his just dessert of 20 Easton arrows in his ribs for killing a dumb aminal for this dumb story.
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:15am
  I could really care less about the legalities of it. It’s an animal that is known to be vicious and attack people and other animals. It’s no different than if a bear or a wolf was stalking your property.
  
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Ash_Kiker
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:49pm
dumba** kid… he needs some serious help… like a beating!

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- txannie
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:19pm
  After reading the comments here, it amazes me that people actually think the guy should automatically be punished in the same manner he dished to the dog. Talk about jumping to conclusions….no one even knows why he did it. If it was attacking, he’s justified. If it wasn’t, he needs to be fined, but killed over a dog? Good Lord, what in the world is this society sinking to when the nation that stands as a symbol of freedom and justice has jackrods that don’t even ask a question before judging…over a dog!!! Yes, I have dogs…and cattle and chickens and cats and rabbits and goats and I guarantee you that I will use a .45 long colt on any dog that steps on my property with intent to molest any one of them or my grandchildren or myself. You want your dog to be safe, keep it at your home. Don’t expect a farmer/rancher to wait and ask a doggie if he/she is friendly when they see a strange dog. Even if they are friendly, they may be diseased. Strange dogs and cats don’t belong anywhere near healthy animals and people and there are all kinds of reasons to keep them away. But killing someone just because they killed a dog? Unbelievable.
  
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Xanderson
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:48pm
This is sick.

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Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:47pm
As I watched the Pit Bull next door, attack my 83 year old neighbors poodle, get shreaded before her eyes, I am reminded of it here. The owner hid his pit bull so animal control couldn’t get ahold of it. I have two golden retrievers that are rescues. If my dogs are outside, in their yard and a pitt bull comes in my yard, it will bear the full weight of a magazine of 30, 223 bullets. I will not try to sue a pitt bull owner for mauling my last golden retriever’s leg, for vet bills….Why? Last year, while watching three pit bulls coming up my street, no collars, they came after me in my yard and injured my dog and the owner of the dogs wouldn’t pay for it. He told me it was too bad for me. I just want to let him know that what happened to his dogs was too bad for him.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:52pm
  Over bred inner city status symbols now in the burbs. Situation dictates. #4 or plain buckshot, or Hornady coyote load work very well.
  
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- MDECKER
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:53pm
  You mean blowing a whistle or moving to a, “safe zone”, wouldn’t do the trick?
  
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- Xanderson
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:56pm
  If any animal threatens the well-being of you or your pets then I am 100% with you on doing “whatever it takes” to stop it. This story may be missing some details but if the kid just killed this dog for a cool thing to have to post on his Facebook page then he needs help.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:09pm
  X- well said. Killing for joy is sick. Flat out, usually only libs do that post joy. I digress. No one should kill what they won’t eat. Pits on the other hand can and do bring down rather large game (2 footed) on occasion. We are missing part of the story as usual. Pieces like this get the knee jerk emotional responses the writer was looking for. I detest being put into the situation of dropping a dog- it is a hard but necessary thing sometimes. I you chose to own an inner city status symbol, do it properly or someone will perform the 3 S’s: shoot, shovel, shut up.
  
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- joex51
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:16pm
  then your just as bad for using excessive force after the fact… not the animals fault it was trained by an *******…. so unless you killed every pitbull he owned it is going to happen again…. as for watching the dog attack another dog and not take a video or call Animal control/police with the video… a video would be probably cause and allowed them to get a warrant and confiscate the animal… he might of been charged with harboring a dangerous animal…. then call his home owners insurance company and see how quick they cancel his account….
  
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- Obama Snake Oil Co
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:41pm
  Joex….details. When the pit hit the poodle it took it less than two minutes. I thought a dog had gotten hit by a car to walkout. I was too shocked by what I saw. Details, this was he third dog the pit had killed in the retirement area where I live. All were small dogs and one was dragged away and killed. The owner made chase but couldn’t out run the pit. Details, the owner of the pit had no homeowners, he was rentor. Animal control was contacted by most of us in this neighborhood and we were told we couldn’t do anything about it in my county.
  Details, when another pit attacked my golden retriever and tore up her leg, it cost me 980 dollars at the Raleigh Vet School. I am told, if the dog comes into my yard and shows any agression, I can take it out. Based on my experience with how often this happens, I will dig more holes. Also understand, we don’t have a leash law so the dogs can move rather quickly. When my neighbor’s dog was shreaded apart, I was not armed, I am now.
  One other thing to mention. The last golden that had her leg injured had myastenia gravis and was the test dog that led to the cure for MG in humans by Roche Pharmaceuticals. The injury required emergency response since she had no immune system to fight infections due to the drug. If you can imagine the complications of the situation, she was the only test dog of ten to make it past the FDA required trial test. If she would have been killed or died, humans wouldn’t have got the drug.
  
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- polarized
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:24pm
  One’s guilty, they’re all guilty. Hmm.
  My daughter has a rescued pit. She’s a wiggle worm who carries her ball everywhere. My dogs don’t like to play with her because she’s rowdy and slaps them with her paws, not because she bites. I’ve never heard her growl. One of the sweetest dogs around children and other animals since my black lab.
  
  It’s a the dog and the owner. I can make a poodle mean if I worked at it….
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:47pm
  Polar
  A standard poodle is one of the most dangerous canines there is. If trained properly. People don’t get pits usually for anything more than one upping the neighbor and as a status symbol of some sort. The pounds are over run with them. Why? Why do most home owner’s policies say no to pits? Contact your policy holder when you get a minute. I witnessed a daft deputy empty 2 mags of .40 cal around a nice fluffy pit that got over sensitive to a bunch of kids on an inflatable gym and it/pit saw everything as a threat. Up until the kids fun times, it was a fluffy ball carrying lovable mutt. Sure. To each his own, but stats are there for your perusal, or not. One of the best dogs I ever knew was a pit, but it was a working dog and the owner, owned it.
  
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Landon410
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:46pm
a dog is not a person, or equal to a person….. that being said you shouldn’t just kill someone’s dog!
they should punish the kid, and they should arrest everysingle person that made death threats to the kid

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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:54pm
  I have met dogs twice the person some people are. There are dogs that are worth 10 times what some people are worth.
  
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- ZX12R
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:56pm
  In this case, I think the dog might have been of more value on the earth, than this kid.
  
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- whatdoibelieve
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:32pm
  @Cavallo, @ZX12R,
  
  Wow, you make those judgments without any details of this case. What if the dog was dangerous? Just because he looks cute and cuddly dead doesn’t mean he wasn’t dangerous. I have seen stuffed baby lions at the local hunting store. They look cute and cuddly too but I would never want to be within 30 feet of them.
  
  Serious question: How on earth do you equate the value of a person to that of an animal? I honestly don’t get that at all.
  
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RightUnite
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:42pm
You S.O.B. You deserve nothing less than what you did to this dog!

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- redfish52
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:52pm
  Don’t know the whole story and don’t really care. But there are questions that need to be answered. Did you kill the animal because he threatened you or someone else? How did you happen to have the bow on you when the dog showed up? Who owns the dog and why was it loose? Lots of questions need to be answered. If he did this out of malice he needs to be punished but I’m sure by now he has his story straight. I will say right off the block that he is a royal douche and a stupid one at that for posting on FB….Dumb***.
  
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- RightUnite
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:00pm
  @REDFISH… Amen… Couldn’t agree more.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:07pm
  That I think is the rub. The post he made seems spiteful and cruel. Almost a “Ha Ha.. I killed your favorite type of dog, suck it”
  It’s not what he did but the intention behind his action that seems to have people angry.
  
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- whatdoibelieve
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:33pm
  Did you say the same thing about George Zimmerman? Just wondering…
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:05pm
  @whatdoibelieve….George did the world a favor and rid us of another baby making thug…thanks George.
  
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- whatdoibelieve
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:23pm
  @redfish52
  
  Don’t get me wrong. I believe that Zimmerman was justified. I especially didn’t enjoy his execution in the media. I would like to see some care taken with this story since IMHO, it is just a dog.
  
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Fubared
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:41pm
Marinate in a good jerk rub and send it to 0 on a stick? Curried? Cherokee County seems apropos to the situation though.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:16pm
  LOL, Reminds me of when a unit I was in was supposed to go to Panama for training. A friend of mine who had just returned stateside warned me to watch the Panamanian boys selling strips of “BBQ beef” on a stick (yeah, just like Jose Jalapeno). His warning was you would be lucky if it was just monkey meat. That mission was OBE and we did not go. I recommend that you make 0bama feel at home and ship it in a satay peanut sauce.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:29pm
  Holy mackerel -anything in satay has my vote. Even snake, and I hate snake on principle. Pit in satay may not make us too many friends here. Dog peeps can be rabid about their breed of choice and vehement in defense where rational thought is concerned. Sad story-but satay has me wanting Indian or Thai now!
  
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fdraiden
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:35pm
He should suffer the fate as the dog!

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- wolverine
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:43pm
  You are out of your every loving mind after seeing Pit Bulls in action I believe there ought open season on oit bulls running loose
  
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- etddavid
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:44pm
  Why not…that sounds like a logical and sane reaction in such a case.
  
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- Warphead
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:15pm
  Wol ver jack***. I think they should declare open season on pathetic ignorant morons. Oh wait, They’re about too.
  
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- whatdoibelieve
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:34pm
  Just curious if you came to the same conclusion about George Zimmerman? I say, lets wait till we have all the facts before we execute people (even figuratively.)
  
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- Schteveo
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:53pm
  I live in a rural neighborhood, full of small children, a number of teens and few elderly couples. My kids are grown, but my grandsons are here several times a week. I keep a couple of goats as pets they keep the undergrowth down in the wooded parts of my lot.
  
  Last fall, a pit bull got into my paddock and mauled one of my goats. One of my neighbors saw it happen, and later that evening we even found out who owned the dog. Turns out it was a guy, who was dealing drugs from a travel trailer, through the woods, behind my house. He had the pit bulls, in a fence around his trailer, to keep out his ‘competition’.
  
  When he was arrested, his ‘competition’ knocked down his fence with a truck, which let the dogs out, to roam free. Yeah, I said dogS, there were two, when all was learned. Luckily that day, ONLY a $40 goat was mauled. But I’m a firm believer that ultimately the goat had to be put down, because I didn’t put my animals in a secure place.
  
  Having said that, and to all you Pit Bull lovers, what is it, about breeding and inter-breeding you DON’T understand? Although these dogs were not originally bred to fight, that’s been the use for almost 40 years now. More than that, the breed is dangerous, compared to other breeds, studies have proven it.
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  All I could think of that day, was that it was actually good that the goats were out there behind my house, in the woods. What might have happened if the dogs had found a CHILD or one of the ELDERLY people
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:55pm
  Yep, I’m in the country too. Normal dogs are trained not to tresspass with a BB gun. Pits, no training.
  Only mistake this guy made was posting a picture.
  
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