Re: Skinnywater & mattttt25
Jay, I am a dog lover. I prefer dogs to people, so does my wife. However, I think you may be being a little hard on Skinny. In many rurual areas stray dogs are delivered out there by people who don't want them. My parents live out in the sticks and dogs are dropped off out there often. What the human flotsam that abandons dogs fail to realize is that dogs, unlike cats, are no longer able to survive in the wild, they are too domesticated. Now Skinny has several options on how to deal with stray dogs. He can chase them down, capture them (which can be next to impossible) and carry them to the local Humane Society, where they will get fleas, kennel caugh, hook worms etc before being put down. Or he can leave them to wonder and die a slow and agonizing death of starvation. Or he can put them down himself.<br /><br />What he is doing is hard, and may be seen as cold hearted, heck, he may be a cold hearted SOB for all I know, but he is keeping them from mateing and creating more unwanted dogs, he is keeping them from starvation, and he is putting them down in a fairly humane manner if he is a decent shot. I could never shoot a dog. It isn't in me, but I could shoot a person (home defense, protection of someone in danger, etc.) and sleep like a baby, but dogs? No way, that would haunt me till I died. But I don't think it is fair to judge Skinny so severly when he may be doing the dogs a favor. It is sad that there not enough good homes for dogs, and there are far too many crappy homes for dogs. At least my four puppies are loved and appreciated.<br /><br />Just my .02
