So now some want to lay almost no blame on the individual behind the trigger who chose to shoot and then mutilate a family pet with no history of aggression or complaints from the neighbors and instead blame the family for not following leash laws? What a shit show this place can be sometimes. Dangerous game, taking the responsibility of a deliberate shooting away from the person who chooses to pull the trigger. This garbage about running deer loses any validation since the hunter becomes a criminal when they deliberately kill the dog for it. They also took the collar in what can easily be seen as an effort to hinder any investigation, mutilated the dog postmortem, and left the scene. Please, tell us all once again how the dog owners are the real problem and not a bag of shit who pulled the trigger and makes lawful gun owners look bad.
You're making a lot of assumptions their bud...
"no history of aggression or complaints from the neighbors"
You don't know that... You have no idea what the disposition of the animal was.
"shoot and then mutilate a family pet "
You don't know that's what happened. No one does.
"taking the responsibility of a deliberate shooting away from the person who chooses to pull the trigger."
You don't know that it was deliberate. Could have easily been an accident. It's coyote too season ya know... Could have been self-defense as well.
"This garbage about running deer loses any validation since the hunter becomes a criminal when they deliberately kill the dog for it."
No one knows what happened. That was one of many possibilities discussed. But it's all conjecture. But dogs can and do harass wildlife - deer included.
"They also took the collar in what can easily be seen as an effort to hinder any investigation, mutilated the dog postmortem, and left the scene."
So much derpa derpa... You don't know the dog even had a collar on. How do you know that getting out of his collar wasn't how he got lose? You don't. You don't know if the dog was mutilated, postmortem. The only thing that is factual here is whoever it was left the scene. The dog could have attacked the shooter who first attempted to beat it back with a stick. When that failed he shot it... He left the scene because - well this is MA and he would have had his LTC yanked and his guns confiscated.... for defending himself...
Point being - you don't know diddle squat dude.