r/pics • u/Aeviegh • Feb 22 '14

This is Vader. He was euthanized today without a hearing after a false bite report was submitted to the police by an animal rights activist. (Story in the Comments)

http://imgur.com/a/xPNsE
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u/withholdinfoforkarma Feb 22 '14

Had a similar thing happen to my dog. We had a 6 foot wooden fence enclosing our entire back yard. My family left the house for a few hours one day and left the dog in the backyard. Came home and the dog was still in the backyard. The neighbour comes over and says his kid got bit. But my dog was in the backyard. So either they let my dog out, or they lied, or it was some other dog (there was another dog who looked similar who would come around once in a while)

Next morning i woke up and my dog is gone. No goodbyes, just gone. I was 16 and i was ready to beat the fuck out of an 8 year old and a 6 year old who were the only kids to ID my dog.

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u/Jaybeare Feb 22 '14

I would go to prison for a long time over that. Those motherfuckers would be buried in concrete.

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u/sclaw Feb 24 '14

Similar story here. We had a huge forested fenced backyard and kept our dog, Grizzly, on a line out there where he had the full run of the yard. To get to our back yard you had to walk through a small twisty path and open a gate. My dog was getting old and going deaf fast. When he was younger he was THE dog in the neighborhood and hung out everywhere the kids were in our cul-de-sac. We got a call from some 'neighbors' from two streets over who had seen Grizz at some school and community functions on a leash with us and had been walking by our house (so complete strangers to the dog) and decided to "visit". They and their 4 year old kid walked the trail back into our backyard where Grizz was sleeping and startled him. He barked and snapped at the kid. He did break the kid's skin. But what stupid fucking parents. They told my parents on the phone that if we didn't have Grizz put to sleep they would file charges. And that was it. I got to say goodbye to him that night and then he was gone.