i'm really happy that the guy who shot your horse
had to pay for it. now THAT was gall!! i'm afraid if it had been
mine i'd have beat him down and then i'd have been the one in
jail.
we could sue him and in our county you sue for three
times the value but i didn't want his money. it won't bring those goats
back (they were nice goats but their value to us was as pets). i was just
determined he wasn't going to continue to let those dogs run loose. if
he hadn't gotten rid of them i would have sued as it seems the only way you can
get through to some people is through their pocketbook. i guess those dogs
are now tormenting someone else somewhere.
patty in georgia
Man does not have the only memory, The animals remember, The earth
remembers, The stones remember, If you know how to listen, they will tell
you many things.
My beloved endurance horse was shot several years ago by a
neighbor. This neighbor shot him because he would lean over the
adjoining fence and was mashing it down there. Never said a word about
making the fence taller or that there was a problem, just got his gun.
My vet (legendary Todd Nelson, Tevis vet) came out and we did surgery in the
pasture with no anesthesia, that's how stoic this horse was. He was shot
in the neck, we dug down and couldn't find the bullet. Later xrays
showed that it ricocheted off a vertebra and changed direction, so we left it
there. He had a lump in his neck for the rest of his life. He was
a cow horse in his early years and I am sure that he would brag at ridecamps
about the bullet in his neck... ;-)
We pressed charges and the judge we got in Auburn was a horse
lover. He did time in jail, paid the vet bills and a fine, and had to
complete "anger management" classes. :)
Can you press charges? At least for your vet bill? Maybe in
civil small claims court?
