Comments on: Texas town approves shooting stray dogs

By: James

James — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:12:17 +0000

Correction Dog bite cost the health care system about $100,000,000 a year. In ten years, that adds up to about a billion dollars. Our health care system doesn’t need that!

By: James

James — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:09:12 +0000

If stray dogs breed, the puppies won’t be immunized against rabies. They must be assumed to be rabid. All feral dogs must be assumed rabid. Any dog roaming loose, even one that is still owned, can bite. Perhaps all dogs should be muzzled in public, unless you have a permit for an unmuzzled dog. Dog bites cost the health care system about $100,000 a year. Human lives must always come first. All mosquitos in a malarial swamp may not carry malaria, or bite a person. Still, it’s the duty of government officials to spray, or drain the swamp, or do something. All packs of stray dogs should be eradicated. Human lives must always come first. If local authorities are short of cash, the army, national guard, or volunteer hunters can be used to safeguard human life. Politicians must always put hum,an lives over canine lives. These dogs are not a wild species that is part of the “balance of nature”. They are a threat to wild animals, including “endangered species”. Environmentalists should care about that. Establish a National Dog DNA Database, so those who abandon dogs can be heavily fined, or imprisoned if their animal bites someone. a dog DNA database would make it possible to track down and fine those who refuse to responsibly dispose of their animals’ waste, polluting the environment and making people sick.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:42:23 +0000

shooting is probably a good option because what are they gonna do when they capture one of these dogs?..turn around and put it down. It makes it safer than trying to catch these dogs so they can then put them down

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.