Comments on: Exactly how and under which provisions of the law is it a crime to kill your own dog with a single bullet to the head? https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Pat Zahra https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1576800 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:45:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1576800 In reply to Pat Zahra.

My apologies. I should clarify that it is the farm children I would not see changed one jot – and those were in Zurrieq.

The children in Marsa, on the other hand, were a pitiable bunch. I can’t go into detail, but if you think a fighting dog is scarred you ought to have seen some of the lashes, stab wounds and scars I have seen on their backs, arms and faces. And I was teaching in a primary school at the time.

]]> By: TROY https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1576530 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:25:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1576530 NAZI captain shoots young jewish boy with a straight bullit to the head.
The captain is a professional shooter,therfore it was not cruel.
The question here is the, WHY? Why did he shoot it?
And him saying that the dog attacked him,is simply CRAP.
So,first a dog attacks you(,his loving owner),then you attach a leash to his collar,tie him to a tree and then shoot him.
Dan bis-serjeta jew?

[Daphne – It is deeply wrong on several counts to compare the shooting of a boy by a Nazi officer to the shooting of a dog by its owner. For a start, it belittles the former action and reduces in value the life of a boy to the life of a dog, thereby also reducing the magnitude of the crime.]

]]> By: TROY https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1576509 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:15:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1576509 If he used a shot gun, it was no straight bullet to the head.

This man is known for animal cruelty.

]]> By: steve hayden https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1575988 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:44:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1575988 Completely agree with Daphne here, but I think that he broke the law regarding the use of his gun “to shoot his dog” since gun licences are issued following examinations under precise categories and for uses clearly defined by law: target shooting at a range only, hunting (shotguns), clay pigeon shooting, collector’s licence. Simply owning a gun does not give anyone the right by law to shoot and kill a dog. I can completely empathise with his situation, but…

]]> By: Liberal https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1575977 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:40:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1575977 In reply to A. Cremona.

A. Cremona,

1. Vets may legally kill a perfectly healthy animal, and often do.

2. Farm animals are not euthanized. All the farm animals that are killed for human consumption must enjoy perfect health, otherwise the government would shut the place down.

]]> By: Anthony V Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1575386 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:33:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1575386 In reply to A.Attard.

I read the news reports after reading your blog and the deed does appear to have taken place in Wied il-ghasel, limits of Mosta at a time when the place was deserted. Still a public place used by the public to go out walking or jogging. The not so old man (63) left the animal’s carcass tied to a tree to be found by the next person out for a morning walk. Did he think that vultures would swoop down and pick the carcass to bones before the next person on an island 9 x 19 with a population of over 400,000 came along? Dog also had microchip embedded allowing owner to be traced. Man lacks judgment to say the least.

]]> By: Liberal https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1575202 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:56:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1575202 In reply to Liberal.

Yes, I agree. I meant to say that it is the association most people make.

]]> By: Bubu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1575117 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:03:13 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1575117 In reply to Bubu.

I know very well what living in the natural state implies, Daphne. I have studied evolutionary biology in some depth and that made me realize that whoever coined the phrase “mother nature” had very little idea what he was talking about. And I never bought into the “natural is good” fad (and incidentally neither did I buy into the GMO hysteria for that matter, but that’s a completely different argument).

As I said in a comment on a previous post I am a realist and I do not expect the entire human race to turn vegan. After all, humans are omnivores and, in the words of Dennis Leary, “meat tastes like murder and murder tastes good”.

I see we do not agree on these points Daphne and that’s OK. I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion and I appreciate the time you put into replying to my comments.

[Daphne – Yes, I enjoyed it too. It made a change from dealing with people who think of themselves as ‘animal lovers’ because they have a cat fixation.]

]]> By: A. Cremona https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1574802 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 03:48:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1574802 Your point regarding the law makes sense. However animals at the vet or on a farm are euthanized precisely to end their suffering owing to one malady or another. More often than not the circumstances are regretful and heart breaking.

In this case the animal had a clean bill of health.

If it were so simple for this man to kill his pet dog whom he loved according to his own words, then I dread to think about the cruelty the hapless creature was subjected to during its entire life. Speculation you might say, but I’ll bet my bottom dollar.

It’s all a question about morals while the law, as the saying goes, is an ass.

]]> By: Daken https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/exactly-how-and-under-which-provisions-of-the-law-is-it-a-crime-to-shoot-your-own-dog-with-a-single-bullet-to-the-head/#comment-1574423 Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:37:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44312#comment-1574423 In reply to Carmen Zahra.

First and foremost dogs are animals and thus it is quite common to lose control of the animals. Just Google “dogs attacking children” and you will read plenty of articles. Case in point recent killing. Google Lexi Branson.

Secondly, why would this guy need to seek the police force.

Finally how are you so sure that he is lying?

Do you have proof that he’s lying?

And do you really need to justify the shooting of your own dog?

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