I know you said you may be desensitised due to your rural upbringing but the extreme lack of empathy you’re displaying here is bordering on psychopathic. Or maybe you’re just one of these weird people who ragebaits/plays devil’s advocate in every thread and then has a sook about it when you are rightfully called out.
Queensland police issued a statement on Monday saying that at about 3.40pm on Sunday, police in a marked vehicle left an address in Mill Crescent in Mount Isa “at low speed”.
Even assuming there is no local vet with regular opening hours on a Sunday afternoon, it is entirely possible that there were emergency/after-hours options available. By their own admission, the car was moving at a “low speed”, which indicates they were not in an emergency situation themselves and had the time to assess the situation properly and provide assistance to the owner. That would obviously include discussing the available options with her first, and possibly transporting her and the dog to somewhere like a local vet if that was an option.
Additionally, the owner’s grandmother is quoted in the article as a witness so it’s complete speculation from you that there was no adult there to discuss these options with on behalf of the child, or that there was no adult there to transport the child and the dog:
The national broadcaster reported the 15-year-old’s grandmother, Sharlene Boddy, as alleging police fired three shots before Smokey died, and questioning why officers shot the dog at the scene rather than transporting it to a veterinary clinic for euthanasia.
According to the statement, a “supervising officer attended the scene within three minutes” to find the dog “showing obvious signs of trauma injuries and was in distress”.
“The decision was made to euthanise the dog immediately to avoid further suffering for the dog,” the statement read.
But they did none of this. Again, by their own admission, the police made the decision within 3 minutes to shoot the dog without consulting anyone from its family. The fact that you are trying so hard to defend this says a lot about your personality. Trying to take the moral high ground and pretending you know anything about the potential impacts of witnessing the violent death of a pet, when you admit that you are desensitised to all of this, is cringe as fuck and embarrassing. Please think before you type up this inane dribble.
I know you said you may be desensitised due to your rural upbringing but the extreme lack of empathy you’re displaying here is bordering on psychopathic. Or maybe you’re just one of these weird people who ragebaits/plays devil’s advocate in every thread and then has a sook about it when you are rightfully called out.
Even assuming there is no local vet with regular opening hours on a Sunday afternoon, it is entirely possible that there were emergency/after-hours options available. By their own admission, the car was moving at a “low speed”, which indicates they were not in an emergency situation themselves and had the time to assess the situation properly and provide assistance to the owner. That would obviously include discussing the available options with her first, and possibly transporting her and the dog to somewhere like a local vet if that was an option.
Additionally, the owner’s grandmother is quoted in the article as a witness so it’s complete speculation from you that there was no adult there to discuss these options with on behalf of the child, or that there was no adult there to transport the child and the dog:
But they did none of this. Again, by their own admission, the police made the decision within 3 minutes to shoot the dog without consulting anyone from its family. The fact that you are trying so hard to defend this says a lot about your personality. Trying to take the moral high ground and pretending you know anything about the potential impacts of witnessing the violent death of a pet, when you admit that you are desensitised to all of this, is cringe as fuck and embarrassing. Please think before you type up this inane dribble.