yup. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Ray Champagne <[email protected]> wrote: > > I get that, and I should make that clear. It's just hard to separate the > two in my mind. > Controlling a population in a humane way and shooting animals, no matter > what the breed, in sport and out of spite and anger, just rubs me wrong. > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Charlie Griefer > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ray Champagne <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > >> > I'm trying to lay off the judgment, trying to understand what it is like >> to >> > be in his shoes. >> > But Erika, re-read the post. The dogs are not being shot for any purpose >> > other than displacing anger and frustration. Not for any useful purpose >> > like thinning the herd or making life safer for anyone. >> > >> > I'm finding it hard to condone this myself, no matter what it is done "in >> > the name of". >> > >> > What if soldiers were killing Iraqi babies because they were stressed >> out? >> > Would that be condonable? >> > >> >> As Jerry pointed out, these aren't dogs where the soldiers either have the >> option of going, "here, doggie doggie doggie", and giving them a treat, or >> shooting them. >> >> Yes, biologically they're the same dogs that we have here in the US as >> pets. >> But they've not been raised as pets and they do not have the disposition >> of >> pets. >> >> There may be more "humane" ways of thinning the population, and it does >> bother me to think of dogs being shot just as much as it bothers any of >> you. >> But it's a conscious effort to make the distinction that this is not Fido >> from next door. >> >> -- >> I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my >> wife. And I wish you my kind of success. >> >> >> > >
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