On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 04:17:56 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

If you ask a neighbor to control its dog and the neighbor refuses, then yes.
It is equivalent to molesting your daughter. I do NOT agree that the
neighbor should be shot. However, you must realize that by refusing to
cooperate, the neighbor has made a request.

No he hasn't. That's YOUR choice. He's not the one with the problem,
you are.

He has asked you to bring all
possible legal forces to bear on him as quickly as possible.

Key word: Legal. Killing his pet is not justified, unless that pet
attacks you.

If you do not
honor his explicit request, then YOU are a bad neighbor.

Why? He made no such request, despite your somewhat warped opinion to
the contrary.


It's your job to
involve the police, animal control people and courts immediately, the goal
being to remove the animal from the home, extract a huge fine, and cause as
much heartbreak as possible at the loss of a pet.

So you like inflicting pain on other people? I believe in giving back
too. If you killed my dog, lets just say that your land would soon
become unable to sustain life for the next several years....... And
then where would you be? Right, just where you are now, in an
apartment.


Remember: You are honoring
the neighbor's explicit request. As a side benefit, you will help his
children learn something which he was too stupid or lazy to teach them -
owning a pet involves work.

Yes it does. But it is not your place to teach them.

Dog owners like that really don't want to own pets. They probably get dogs
because someone else in the house wanted one, but was also too lazy to care
for it correctly.

That much is true in many cases. But it's still not your place.


In rural areas, it may be safe and legal* to shoot the
dog. Obviously, it's your responsibility to do just that, to honor your
neighbor's request.

Safe maybe, legal no.


Dave
http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj