In Scottsdale, a sniper will shoot your dog if you don't clean up the poop...

[Jack & Coke]

from:http://www.azcentral.com/community/s...shot11-ON.html

Dog shot at condo complex after 'threat' by sniper

Dave Seibert/The Arizona Republic

Emily Bittner
The Arizona Republic
May. 11, 2004 05:38 PM


"I don't feel safe living there, I don't feel safe keeping my dog there," says Laura Middleton, with Bomber.

SCOTTSDALE - When Laura Middleton came home from work last Friday, she found her dog Bomber lying on her bed, whimpering.

Then she saw the hole in his left side, torn open by a pellet gun, she said.

Middleton, 22, and other residents at the Casita Real condos at Indian School and Granite Reef roads were papered with fliers last week signed by someone claiming to be "the sniper" and warning them that their dogs would be killed if their waste wasn't cleaned up.

"First you just freak out and get a little hysterical," said Middleton, a waitress. Eventually, she took the dog to a veterinarian and Bomber is recovering from his wound.

Police are investigating the shooting and the flier distribution, said Detective Sam Bailey, a spokesman for the Scottsdale Police Department. The Middleton files weren't immediately available, he said.

Middleton, who called police when the fliers were first put on residents' cars a week ago and again when her dog was shot, is worried that police and her homeowner's association aren't doing enough to stop other shootings.

"I don't feel safe living there, I don't feel safe keeping my dog there," she said. "Every noise that I hear, every move my dog makes, I am awake."

The fliers, typewritten in all capital letters on white paper, address all dog owners in the condo complex.

"I am sorry to say effective immediatley (sic), your dog will be shot on the spot if you do not pick up his dog (expletive). I will be in a bush/a tree/car/van/window. Consider yourself warned!!! I am sick of looking at dog (expletive) all over this property. It's simple. Your dog will live if you pick-up (sic), die if you don't."

The notes were the first Middleton heard of anyone's displeasure with dogs at the complex, she said.

"Just about everyone in that complex has dogs," she said. "This has never been an issue that I know of."

[taylor492]

Leave it to some one in snottsdale to pull some crap like this. If someone ever shot my dog with a pellet gun, id go postal.

[Cryer]

So is this just one apartment complex, or is it some guy roaming around shooting dogs?

I say someone lure him out with a dog turd a shoot him...

[Thordic]

Hey, I got an idea.

Clean up your goddamn dog****.

[taylor492]

....or i'll shoot your dog!!! looks like we found our sniper ^^^

[Loud Tim]

that is some real sound reasoning shoot the dog because the owner didnt pick up the poo.

[Crighton]

that is some real sound reasoning shoot the dog because the owner didnt pick up the poo.

Yeah well your dealing with top shelf intelligence when the morons willing to post fliers and then go about pelleting gunning dogs to start with.

[Cryer]

I dont exactly like dog gnasty strewn about either, but there are other means of dealing with it... Say, complain to the landlord/landlady... Or even the pet owner.

I know most complexes here in CollegeStation actually have "business fields" for pet owners, with poles you can leash you dog to while they do their thing.

[Jack & Coke]

The bastard (sniper) should be locked up in a cell full of daily fresh hot stinky doggie poo poo.

I honestly can't think of what venegence I would unleash if someone shot my dog...

[Cryer]

The bastard (sniper) should be locked up in a cell full of daily fresh hot stinky doggie poo poo.

I honestly can't think of what venegence I would unleash if someone shot my dog...

It's not vengence...

Its punishment

[Chris42050]

that is some real sound reasoning shoot the dog because the owner didnt pick up the poo.

Thats exactly what I was thinking. This guy needs some help. How does he know which dogs poo is who's. He must have a lot of time on his hands to be sneaking around in bushes and stuff waiting for dogs to poo and then shooting them when the owner doesnt pick it up. Some people have waayyy to much time on thier hands. This guy needs to get a life.

[Dryden]

Here's an idea: Why doesn't this dog-poo hating fool like, uh, move to a complex that doesn't allow pets? It's darn near impossible to get into apartments/condos that allow any pets, let alone dogs. So why does this idiot live in such a place, when the woman interviewed even stated that just about everyone there owns a dog?

Geez, sounds like something my gumpy old grandpa would do ... move to a place you hate just so you can complain about it and shoot the neighbors' pets.

[Jack & Coke]

I dont exactly like dog gnasty strewn about either, but there are other means of dealing with it... Say, complain to the landlord/landlady... Or even the pet owner.

I agree.

Also, if the sniper knows which dog to shoot (assuming this was not a random shooting), he could probably figure out where the owner lives.

If the doggie poo poo really upsets him, how about collecting it in a bag and dumping it in the dog owner's yard (or smearing it all over the dog owner's front door).

...there are always alternative methods to send a messege other than resorting to despecable acts of animal cruelty.

[Thordic]

I'd rather shoot the owners than the dog, the dog didn't do anything wrong. And if you use the right pellets, it doesn't do much damage

My point is, if you own a dog, clean up the goddamn crap. There is no excuse for leaving your dogs **** all over the street. The town is not your dogs toilet.

The dog can either **** in your yard, or you carry the plastic baggy.

Otherwise, you get snipered.

[shartley]