Target, the Afghanistan hero dog. Killed.

Should the moron who did this atrocity be put in jail and sued for every last penny he has?

  • Yes! Definitely! Not a doubt in the world.

    Votes: 27 67.5%

  • It wasn't a big deal, let him go.

    Votes: 13 32.5%
  • Total voters
    40
I gotta say, voting second. You are all radical. This is like the Salem Witch trials with a mad mob wanting to kill a single person. While back then it was false and now this is true, a lot of you people are getting worked up for nothing. Why hadn't the dog had a collar on in the first place? While I do think the dog was a war hero and all, he should've had a collar on or something among the likes. I don't mean to troll but calm down, seriously (and yes, I agree he should have some sort of fine and be fired from his job though). And just because this has happened a thousand times over and you haven't done any means to point that out but you're pointing this one event out? Really? Pathetic. Hitler loved animals by the way. And the doctor's intention to harm the owner? You sir are just...wow.

And, as the saying goes "Heroes are remembered but legends never die." Lets just call that dog both.
 
I don't care if it was a hero dog or not, it doesn't matter to me. The guy should be fired, get some jail time, and sued, but for every penny? I picked the first option because I would hate this to happen to my dogs, not because the dog was a hero or because he should "burn in hellfire". All dogs should be given a few week period on the shelter before being put down(dying strays should just be euthanized, but healthy ones should be there for a few weeks and there should be a newspaper article for all fouond strays in the local shelter, but thats just my opinion)
 
Dude, it showed him going to pick up the collar on national television!!!

I garuntee most of you people sit around and say, "God, the overpopulation of dogs is horrible! Why don't you do something?" Well, he did. He created us to stop it.
 
It wasn't actually a purposeful murder/killing or whatever you want to call it, so shut up with the 'burn in hell' parts. Many dogs die every die in Afghanistan, and all over the world. Maybe some are good dogs and have kept people from being hit by cars and the like. Why aren't they discussed? They might save lives. More lives, maybe. And yet we don't hear of them.

This is just another case in a hopeless bunch of cases about mistakes and idiocy.

The man should be fined, maybe. Not much. Not sued, nor fired. He just did the wrong thing by accident. It happens everywhere. I could do stuff by accident that involves me getting banned, say, and despite that everyone gets angry with the mods for doing it. Loads of peope get banned in similar circumstances. They just don't get the limelight to be patronised over.

That was just an example.
 
This shouldn't have happened, and is a very sad and depressing story. This is really one of those things that makes you wonder about some people.

In a way, it was the owners' fault for not having any sort of identification on the dog, and not paying enough attention to her, resulting in her escape. If she ran away at night (the article doesn't specify what time of day it was), why would they have Target sleep in their yard unattended?

In another way, it was the unintentional killer's fault for "putting the dog to sleep" six days too early. Even if it was an accident, they should have payed more attention.

These tragedies, like others have said, happen all over the world to humans (I mean in car accidents, wars, etc., not in pounds) and animals alike. Some go unreported, and some do even greater feats than Target. So why is this so special? I don't mean to sound like I don't care or heartless (because it really does make me very sad), but why?

And the poll should be changed. Also, saying the person who did it should "be sued for every penny they have" and should "burn in hell" is very extreme. If it happened to him/her, would that make you feel better? I really hope it wouldn't.
 
On my last post I was a bit to over dramatic. Anyway, to get to the point it actually is slightly the owners fault. Although, I don't put ID on my dog. Just a collar. Anyway, the "unitentional killer" somehow mixed up the numbers of two dogs. Sadly, he picked Target. He should have payed a boat loads more attention. Thats a serious job, and just being lazy and not double checking is really not good. You have to make sure.

Also, the reason many people think this is special (which I feel it is in a way) is that this dog was loved by not the just a smaller family, but the entire United States for helping us when others wouldn't. I'm not saying ordinary dogs aren't fantastic, because they are. They can understand people more than anybody else. I'm also not saying a persons death is less than what happens to a dog. The reason I feel this is a bit more special is that many people know this dog, and more people get hurt. By now the entire country knows about him and everybody gets hurt.

Also, about the poll, there should be a middle option. This way the option won't be overly extreme or less than he deserves. He should however be fined. He should have checked more carefully. He wasn't doing his job the best he could've. When your killing something like a dog, you have to make sure if your doing it or not.
 
He had her on a leash, and, like I said, it showed them picking up her collar ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

And anybody on here who thinks that nothing much should happen to teh euthanizer, what goes around comes around. I'm not the one your have to answer to.
 
Let's round up all the babies to go and get him then :)

But that's a good point. We have all made stupid mistakes at points.
 
Guys, accidents happen. It says, in the article, that the WRONG DOG was picked out. Target was not purposefully chosen to be euthanized. MISTAKES HAPPEN.
You've made a mistake before. It may not have cost a being its life, but everyone still has the capacity to make mistakes, and that happens. Should the man who administered the euthanizer be fired? Probably. I don't know about anything past that legally, but I'm sure he didn't have bad intentions when he killed this dog.
Don't get me wrong. I love dogs, I have a dog, I would hate to see any dog killed. But there's a point where we start valuing the life of animals too highly. Take, for example, Donte Stallworth: he was arrested for DUI MANSLAUGHTER WHILE SPEEDING. He KILLED a HUMAN while driving drunk. He served 24 DAYS in jail and received NO LAWSUIT. Put this into perspective: a man accidentally killed a DOG (while doing nothing that would incapacitate his judgement, eg drinking), and you want him to be put in jail and be sued for every last penny he has? Not a chance.
 
No offense, but everyone voting the second option is sick.

If it wasn't for this dog, we probably wouldn't be here right now. Now I don't think he should be sued for every last penny he has, but I do think this guy should get into some serious trouble. This dog was a hero, not some random dog off the streets. Someone should get into trouble.
 
pokemaister899 said:
No offense, but everyone voting the second option is sick.

If it wasn't for this dog, we probably wouldn't be here right now. Now I don't think he should be sued for every last penny he has, but I do think this guy should get into some serious trouble. This dog was a hero, not some random dog off the streets. Someone should get into trouble.
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So basically you're saying that every other dog that lives on the street may die and you don't care about them, while this dog ''saved'' one guy's life? Do you realize how pathetic you sound? An example I used earlier; police dogs die, if not, every day, they have saved multiple lives, why don't you make a point about that? A dog is a dog, what you call a ''hero'' may not be a hero to all of us (actually this dog isn't even a hero compared to the definition of a hero). Anyway, dogs die every day, get over it. If you really care about them you are not posting here but you would be out in the city or wherever trying to save and help dogs the best you can.
 
No offense, but everyone voting the second option is sick.
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No offense, but everyone voting the second option is sick. But no offense!

I just have to remind you of what bacon wrote, (you did read the thread, didn't you?) The life of an ordinary civilian carries the same weight as that of a soldier, and animals should be treated the same. Dogs are euthanized early on numerous occasions, across the country. Go fix that, if it's what matters enough to throw a guy in jail for 10 years!

The notions that the executioner should serve a 10-year prison or burn in hell are also very irrational. The person just makes a living at the pound! How would you like to find out that after a mistake, you now have to serve 10 years in prison, because you've unknowingly killed a "hero dog"?

... and people at the pound hate the police/military, so they killed the dog early? Really??
 
The guy should be fired or fined, and nothing else. I find it completely ridiculous that anyone should suggest that this person should be "put in jail" and "sued for every last penny he has". The owner is also partially at fault for not having an ID tag on the dog and also for allowing it to escape in the first place. I seriously doubt any legal action will be taken at all, and rightly so, because this person made a mistake, and while it did result in the dog losing it's life, it definitely cannot be compared to killing a human and it definitely was not intentional.

In all honestly, people comparing this dog to a human is utterly pointless. Yes, it did save a US military base in Afghanistan, but it still can hardly be compared to a human. It would be a totally different case if a human had done it instead, he/she would have had a choice to make and would know all the potential risks, and would truly be a hero. The dog just acted based on instinct like nearly any other dog would have... so it was more of right place, right time rather than heroics. Due to that, it is absurd that this dog should be put higher than any other dog. Do you think that if the same mistake had been made on anyone else's pet, people would be suggesting that we put this person in jail etc etc? Obviously not. So this case should not be any different.
 
^lol
pokemaister899 said:
If it wasn't for this dog, we probably wouldn't be here right now.
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Where would we be? Dead? I don't think so. This one dog didn't save America from a national disaster that would have killed us all. If it wasn't for this dog, who knows what would've happened? More likely than not, the suicide bomber would have been deterred by the 2 other dogs anyways.
 
A dog hs 10x the endurance of a human being. A blast strong enough to destroy the surrounding area and two other dogs surely would of killed a squad of guys who have explosives with them. (Grenades, their bullets, etc.)
 
It's not like the dog had a big flashing sign that said 'Hey, I'm a hero. Don't put me down!'. To the guy who you call a 'killer', he just saw it as a normal dog. Don't act like this is a beg deal. These sort of things happen all the time in animal shelters. The only reason it's brought up now is because the dog was a hero. In all seriousness, it's kinda the owner's fault too. They didn't have any tags or contact info on him. That's common sense. No tags or info gives the shelter rights to put the dog in the shelter. It was a mistake. We humans make them everyday. There will most likely be no legal action taken.

There are much worse things involving euthanasia, like Free-bullet. There is even worse things than that:
In some instances, animals euthanized at shelters or animal control agencies have been sent to meat rendering facilities, to be processed for use in cosmetics, fertilizer, gelatin, poultry feed, pharmaceuticals and pet food. The amount of phenobarbital in dog food may have caused dogs to become less responsive to the drug when being euthanized, though a 2002 FDA study found no dog or cat DNA in the foods they tested. They theorized that the drug found its way into dog food from euthanized cattle and horses. They also stated that the level of the drug found in the food was safe
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This hero dog that died suffered the fate so many other million dogs have had.
 
pokemaister899 said:
No offense, but everyone voting the second option is sick.
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Oh, no offense taken! Seriously. I enjoy being called sick. From this comment. I can just picture the dog pulling a "Underdog" scene and saving the US from nuclear warheads. Judging from the posts on this thread though, it would be safe to assume that nearly 75% of those who posted believe this dog actually did do that.
 
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