It’s not that simple. It’s an animal that is barred from being a pet because of the fear of rabies. I’m not defending what happened, but that’s the law. The offender brought it on that innocent animal by keeping it.
This is coming from someone who had a ferret as a pet in the mid 1980’s in rural Georgia. It was illegal. They were illegal because they were predators of chickens, one of the major food commodities of the state, and still are. Mine was female. Female ferrets go into heat twice a year, and will not go out of heat unless they mate, and it can kill them. We had to take her to a neighboring county to a sympathetic, empathetic vet to get her hormone shot to trick her system into thinking she was pregnant. We all knew it was illegal, and knew the risk.
TL;DR: The officers did what was required by law, not out of malice.
Even if it had rabies at the time, seems seems like excessive force to treat the guy like a drug dealer or like it was the gator incident at the bottom of the article.
Also not sure how Harris/Trump has any impact on this.
It’s not that simple. It’s an animal that is barred from being a pet because of the fear of rabies. I’m not defending what happened, but that’s the law. The offender brought it on that innocent animal by keeping it.
This is coming from someone who had a ferret as a pet in the mid 1980’s in rural Georgia. It was illegal. They were illegal because they were predators of chickens, one of the major food commodities of the state, and still are. Mine was female. Female ferrets go into heat twice a year, and will not go out of heat unless they mate, and it can kill them. We had to take her to a neighboring county to a sympathetic, empathetic vet to get her hormone shot to trick her system into thinking she was pregnant. We all knew it was illegal, and knew the risk.
TL;DR: The officers did what was required by law, not out of malice.
That was great info you gave.
Even if it had rabies at the time, seems seems like excessive force to treat the guy like a drug dealer or like it was the gator incident at the bottom of the article. Also not sure how Harris/Trump has any impact on this.