Let me lay out a scenario for you Mibba, okay?
Say you're home alone, and you decide to go out to feed your horses and the outside cats. You go on to the porch and find a rabid dog, and guess what, it has a kitten in it's mouth. Pretty obvious that the kitten is dead. This dog begins to growl and bear it's teeth at you.
What would you do?
I don't want to hear about how it's animal abuse if you hit the dog with a shovel. Would you risk your life trying to run back to the house to call animal control and risk getting bit by a rabid dog? Or would you hit it with a shovel to scare it off from hurting any more cats or your horses? Not to kill it, just to get it off your property.
If it were me, I would hit the thing with the shovel.
And guess what? The dog got shot anyways. Animal control found it in another person's yard, attacking their cats and they shot it, point blank.
I don't care who you are, if you were in that situation and fearing for your life, you'd do the same damn thing.
I am utterly disgusted with some members on this site. It sickens me that when I was having a shitty day, people said "Oh I'm sorry, but that's wrong."
That was my boyfriend's mother. She was home alone, and her phone was in the house. It wasn't smart of her to walk out without her phone, but it's her own yard. She's had stray dogs come in before and kill their cats. Thankfully, none have attacked the horses, but they have had three cats, not including the four kittens that died yesterday because of stray dogs coming into their yard. Most of them having owners who are too lazy to keep tabs or keep them on a chain or leash or whatever.
You know what? It might have been wrong. But would you rather hit the dog with a shovel or get mauled and possibly be disfigured and have scars everywhere for the rest of your life?
I don't hate dogs. I have two of my own. But it kills me when people preach about animal rights and how it's wrong and this and that, but if they were in my boyfriend's mother's situation, they would do the same damn thing, but their actions would be justified somehow.
And the simple fact I had someone sit there and tell me it was irresponsible and stuff that the kittens had been out in the yard. I don't live with my boyfriend. Nor can his brothers and mother, who all work, be outside 24/7 to make sure the kittens were okay. They sure as hell couldn't bring them inside, because they had fleas and probably worms and with them having two inside cats already, the fighting would never stop. They were six weeks old, of course they're going to follow their mother out of the building and into the yard, what else are they going to do?
Only one kitten out of five survived. Let that sink in. Four kittens. Four kittens we had homes for. Four families we had to call and let the parents know that the kitten they wanted to get their child wouldn't be coming home. Four kittens we were getting ready to worm and de-flea and de-tick. Four kittens I loved to fucking death. And when I was having a bad day, someone told me that "oh I'm sorry but it was extremely irresponsible and the kittens shouldn't have been unsupervised" and whatnot.
If you don't like my opinion, I don't care. I'm getting this out. If you don't like what I say, then don't comment, because it is 4 in the morning and this has been bothering me all day and night. I have to get up in 5 hours and make sure the one kitten that did survive is okay.
If you say anything rude or disrespectful about my boyfriend's mom, I advise you to not. I lost four kittens yesterday. They were like my own because I sat there and saw them the day after they were born. I named them, fed them, held them and loved them. If it were any of you, you'd feel horrible too. And to have people on top of that calling my boyfriend's mother an animal abuser because she was scared for her life? No thanks.
As Sunny said: : It could be rabid and ready to attack an entire city and they'd still think she was
wrong for hitting it. Unless they're in the situation, they'll always choose the animal."
Like I said, if you don't like it, don't comment. I'm not checking the comments anyway.