On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:32:50 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:00:48 -0500, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. -- An animal shelter on Bainbridge Island is
seeing more and more animals arriving with gunshot wounds, and the
shelter's director says the disturbing trend needs to stop.

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There's a side to this story that's not being told. Obviously these
dogs had either been abandoned by their owners or allowed to run loose
in the wild. Either way it's a bad thing. Dogs running loose in
the wild revert to their natural instincts and form hunting packs
which prey upon wildlife and sometimes humans. Shooting is probably
the appropriate cure, and is sometime conducted by DNR officers if
caught hunting in packs or acting agressively. The real crime here is
that they were obviously shot with an inappropriate weapon or by
someone with a bad aim.

I'd guess that many if not most of these dogs end up being euthanized
by the animal shelter people.

And what has caused this sudden onslaught of wild dogs? Bainbridge
Island is not a Tennessee hollow with trailers scattering the
landscape. It's an upscale bedroom community a ferry ride away from
downtown Seattle.

It's the legitimacy of guns being on the rise, along with our ever
shortening sense of patience in this country for things not going the
way we want.

Quick answers are real popular here in Merica.