Texas firefighter shoots 2 dogs on his property

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12:59a, 2/26/15
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If those dogs were hanging around and harassing his show rabbits then they were for sure a threat to the rabbits. It doesn't take much for a caged rabbit to freak the eff out and die. A dog barking consistently at their cage or banging in to it will certainly do that. My daughter raised 2 pens of them for FFA a few years back and they are surprisingly fragile animals. Big money in that as well, so there could for sure be a financial impact, even if they didn't die. Raising them is expensive enough and it only takes one mark or bump on them to make them worthless for anything but meat and lucky rabbit's foot keychains.

I have no problem with someone defending their property against a couple of dogs that the owners obviously do not keep control of (especially if he has warned the owner to keep them off of his property and away from his rabbits.) The guy is a complete dumbass for posting it on social media though.

Shoot the dog, drag it off and let no one be the wiser. He brought this **** storm on himself by posting it.
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1:03a, 2/26/15
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Yeah, I see that point. Damning is the pic of dogs nowhere near any animals.
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1:25a, 2/26/15
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In reply to Helms96 • 1:29a, 2/26/15
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And as an aside, it is insanely ironic how fragile rabbits are considering how violent their mating is.
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2:02a, 2/26/15
Animals are now controlled. Problem solved. This guy is a problem solver. CJs bleeding little heart is another issue.
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2:09a, 2/26/15
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You cannot shoot dogs. Period. It's against the law.



What if they are your own dogs?
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2:29a, 2/26/15
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I. Ah-like. Dogs.


Don't care what you say.
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In reply to marble rye • 3:06a, 2/26/15
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And as an aside, it is insanely ironic how fragile rabbits are considering how violent their mating is.
They are very violent to each other when they are not mating, but when they are free range, they can run away.

When they are caged they really do freak out and their heart rate shoots up and some of them actually have a heart attack, but I agree it is pretty ironic.

Nothing wrong with a little slap and tickle and some biting and scratching IMO
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3:21a, 2/26/15
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Update: so the rabbit story was posted in the comments of the pic I posted above. That person was told to scram. A friend of the fireman tells a different story:

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Family friend Kevin Forester said Conatser found the dogs inside his barn a couple of days earlier, while they were attacking his calf, and recognized them as belonging to his neighbor.

"So he went over to his neighbor's and told him that his dogs was getting in his barn and attacking his animals, to please ya know keep 'em at home, put 'em on a leash, build a fence, do something," recalled Forester.

The friend says Conatser told him the neighbor didn't care. We left messages with neighbors in the area, but haven't heard back.


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Conatser is a volunteer firefighter with Union Valley. Union Valley Fire Chief Edward Ragsdale says Conatser realizes he made a mistake. "He says he apologized and he's guilty of posting this on Facebook. He's young and he recognizes what he did was wrong."

But the internet posting has resulted in the department receiving death threats from as far away as Europe. But Chief Ragsdale said all of the comments weren't bad. "We've had comments all the way from England, Portugal, Canada, a lot of them negative. I would say for every negative comment, I'd say we had five in our favor."

Conatser contacted Chief Ragsdale Wednesday and asked that he be removed from the department rotation for now, because of the threats.


So earlier the UVFD said he had been removed from the department per their policy.

If true, he acted within his rights, but odd that he isn't talking to the news unless an attorney told him not to.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/02/25/firefighter-social-media-post-of-dogs-shot-sparks-outrage/
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4:40a, 2/26/15
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What kind of grown ass man has show rabbits?
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5:33a, 2/26/15
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He forgot the three Ss - Shoot, shovel, and shut up.
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6:55a, 2/26/15
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Yeah, get some fecks, man. Come on
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In reply to shafter • 6:56a, 2/26/15
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What kind of grown ass man has show rabbits?
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7:05a, 2/26/15
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I like to fight dogs until death
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In reply to marble rye • 7:16a, 2/26/15
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Here is the original post on FB:


He probably got cabin fever from being trapped inside by the snow storm.
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In reply to marble rye • 7:19a, 2/26/15
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Irresponsible pet owners are aholes, but imagine if these dogs' families have small kids
Life lesson. Perhaps those kids will learn to keep their dogs on a leash.
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7:22a, 2/26/15
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It's hard for me to care about any of this.
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7:23a, 2/26/15
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If that dude shot my dog in his yard over a ****ing bunny, you can consider that bunny rabbit dead.
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7:24a, 2/26/15
If some dude killed my ****ing bunny because I shot his dog over my said bunny you can consider his house on fire.
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In reply to Human • 7:26a, 2/26/15
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It's hard for me to care about any of this.


Yup.
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7:26a, 2/26/15
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God dammit I'd be coming for you taken style after that feller. You protected the wrong bunny.
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7:28a, 2/26/15
And I'll be waiting for you Saw style, mother ****er. You'd be walking into the wrong sadistic *******'s house.
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7:33a, 2/26/15
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But the internet posting has resulted in the department receiving death threats from as far away as Europe.

Lets see...bleeding heart gun fearing European vs. Texas man with a gun and itchy trigger finger. That should be interesting.
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In reply to cisgenderedAggie • 7:42a, 2/26/15
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And I'll be waiting for you Saw style, mother ****er. You'd be walking into the wrong sadistic *******'s house.
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7:45a, 2/26/15
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Wtf is a show rabbit?
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In reply to GigEmBevo • 8:11a, 2/26/15
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Have animal control get the dogs first


There's no animal control in my county. City shelter won't take animals from outside of the city limits.

Shoot, shovel, shut up.
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In reply to Max06 • 8:22a, 2/26/15
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Have animal control get the dogs first


There's no animal control in my county. City shelter won't take animals from outside of the city limits.

Shoot, shovel, shut up.
Yea for cowardly acts.
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8:26a, 2/26/15
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Fetal attraction
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In reply to Max06 • 8:27a, 2/26/15
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Shoot, shovel, shut up.

Coincidentally, this is also the advice Border Patrol gives to ranchers in South Texas.
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8:27a, 2/26/15
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Read somewhere he wasn't even letting the owner of the dogs come and get the bodies.
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In reply to Ragoo • 8:31a, 2/26/15
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Wtf is a show rabbit?

Expensive stew
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In reply to Ragoo • 8:34a, 2/26/15
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Wtf is a show rabbit?
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In reply to CanyonAg77 • 8:42a, 2/26/15
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Wtf is a show rabbit?
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In reply to Ragoo • 8:59a, 2/26/15
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Wtf is a show rabbit?
If you have ever been to a county livestock show, you will see lots of show rabbits. Besides chickens, they are the least expensive animals to raise.
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