Would you shoot it?

[bgrafsr]

Bill, my close, late friend Mike Bray was an LEO for the city of Blue Ash. He was called to respond to a deer having been struck by a car. When he arrived the deer had two broken legs and was trying to get up. Mike called Animal Control but it would be an hour before they could get there.

It was tearing at him so he took his service 9 and shot the deer in the head. It didn't die so he shot it again. Again, it didn't die but was in more agony. Mike ran to his cruiser and grabbed the 870. It dispatched the deer.

Mike was so shaken that he sat in his cruiser and wept until A.C. picked up the carcass. He was beating himself up for not using the shotgun first.

I never did like having to dispatch animals, no matter what they were.
Got a call one evening of a Cocker Spaniel that was hit by a car one street over from where I live. Got there and the poor thing was really torn up badly and suffering. No way a Vet could have done anything for it. I dispatched it with my Service revolver a few minutes before the owners showed up, stating the dog had gotten loose. I told them it was suffering too much and I decided to put it down. They understood, but it didn't make me feel any better.
A woman in a house across the street yelled at me for shooting the dog (she called me a murderer too), and I told her to also shut up and go back in the house.

 

[Model52guy]

Probably not, couldn't find any good recipes for Panther Gumbo. I'm sure there are some, just couldn't find one.

 

[Rule3]

You were siting inside your house and not any danger, then went outside. If you shot it you would be arrested and face Federal and State prosecution. Would not be a smart thing to do.

Some guy in S Florida was outside with his kids (his back yard) a black bear was raiding the garbage can. He took the kids inside, went and got his 357, went back out and shot.killed the bear. He was prosecuted.There was no reason to shoot it.

Panthers (4 legged Cougars) are not "man eaters" out at night stalking people
The proper way to kill them is have a developer cut down 1,000 acres of native woodlands, force the Panther out into the streets and run them over with you car.

 

[Golddollar]

8 or 9 years ago, a man with a privet zoo released his animals before killing himself, it made national news. ALL those animals, were captured and or destroyed!Ivan

I remember that.

 

[Doug627]

The way you described the animal loping it made me think of the mad dog in the movie "To kill A Mockingbird." That dog scared the **** out of me.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Ivan, I remember the Zanesville exotic animal incident in 2011. Incredibly sad. Among those euthanized were 18 Bengal tigers.I also remember the vitriol unleashed by animal rights activists against LEO's who inherited and had to deal with a clear threat to the public.No one went home happy that week.

That night, I was laying in a hospital room! I had been unconcise for 4 days, I stayed up all night watching the story unfold! The 11:00 news had a story of the first deputy on scene. He is walking around trying to find anyone to tell him what was going on. An Adult Grizzly Bear comes around the corner! He pulls his service weapon and shoots and kills the bear!

We are always asking, "How much gun to kill a bear?" the answer is 40 S&W! But that was a "pet" bear hungry at dinner time. Not a wild bear with 'death or die' on his mind!

Ivan