MrPoke wrote:
Wasn't there a thread on the old huddle about a guy who got a year in jail for killing a police dog and a guy who got 6 months in jail for manslaughter?
If that were the case (which I don't doubt) police dogs are sworn officers, so if you kill a police dog you are not killing a dog, you are killing a police officer. Of course you aren't going to get the same sentence as killing a person, but you are going to get a much stricter sentence than your typical animal cruelty.
The guy who shot Bosco is charged with 3 counts (I believe) of attempted murder on an officer (1 bullet hit the officer, 2 hit the dog)
But do dogs have more rights than humans? Well there are a few ways to look at that. The first answer would be a profound "no" but when you dig deeper into it there are many parallels. Animal cruelty= child abuse. Vet hospitals operate way more efficiently than people hospitals. My gf is absolutely appalled at how long they are taking to get my dad's Kidney out. She said in the vet hospital after finding the mass the Kidney would have been gone the next day. Not with people though! Or how about you can euthanize a dog to end their suffering but not a human? Is that more of a right or less of a right?
Or how about the woman who bitched and bitched about the Licking County Animal Shelter. So they have a janitor who takes the dead dogs (euthanized) to the incinerator every night. He has a big cart that he stacks the dogs on to take them over and he is an older man (mid 50's I think they said). Anyways, his cart broke and they had a new one on order, but the dogs were too heavy for him to carry. So he tied a rope around multiple DEAD dogs and drug them across a courtyard to the incinerator. This woman pitched a fit screaming animal cruelty and finally got an investigation going. Seriously?
