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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can’t stop won’t stop calling chickens livestock, and now the dog had attacked people? Come on.
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I'm nearly 65 and grew up in the country. Our uncle had a farm near us. We had taken in a neighbor's older dog when they moved and it was dangerous and unrepentant. It bit me so my parents relocated it to a pen adjacent to our barn. Somehow the dog got out and then bit my much younger sister. So my uncle came over, took it out behind the barn, shot it, then dug a deep grave, and buried it with a wheel barrel full of rocks on top (so no other roaming dog in the neighborhood - or larger animal - would dig it up).

Back then, rural folks called in a vet to save livestock, not necessarily put down a dog. Dog rescues weren't a thing yet and my parents wouldn't have rehomed it anyways because they saw the older dog as a threat to children and unaware adults.

But when my uncle passed away, he didn't ask for this sad task to be included in his obituary. It's just how things were done then, but he wasn't proud of it. He simply stepped in when his family needed help.

Noem is not my uncle by any stretch. Cricket wasn't an old, unrepentant dog, but a pup in the prime of life. Many neighbors would've stepped into help rehome Cricket if Noem had only asked. [/quote]

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