Comments on: Texas town approves shooting stray dogs

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:18:35 +0000

When you see stray dogs killing pets in people’s yards, they need to be shot. It takes them attacking a person before anything is done.

I wish they had the shot the stray dog policy where I live.

By: Fizzy

Fizzy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:21:32 +0000

It’s easy to be horrified if you’ve never dealt with a pack of wild dogs. They are not like the dogs we know and love. We have one currently in our neighborhood which has been terrorizing us for years. This pack has devoured all the cats on the block and killed our neighbor’s pet dog – a large chow mix. They are starving and lead a miserable existence that drives them to this behavior. More than once I have been awakened in the middle of the night to a tormenting saga of listening to them hunt and kill small animals (including other dogs). It sometimes takes 20 or so minutes for the bloodbath to stop. There is little more unnerving. They have charged my husband trying to go to his car in the morning and I worry for my kids. I only wish our city would approve SOMETHING to deal with this menace. Shooting is not the best option but efforts at trapping have been wildly unsuccessful. If anyone has OTHER suggestions please bring them to my attention. In the meantime do not judge so harshly an overwhelmed city that is actually trying to do something about this horrible problem.

By: bluhawkk

bluhawkk — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:16:43 +0000

PETA responded saying they are already looking into the situation.

By: bluhawkk

bluhawkk — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:00:50 +0000

Alerted the Humane Society and PETA to the Dallas Morning News report.

As mentioned the blame must rest with negligent or abusive individuals and an uncaring society.

With the current financial and mortgage mess, the situation can only worsen.