Honey, a 40-pound boxer, may be put to sleep because two people reported bites and another broke his wrist jumping out of Honey's way. Apparently this means the dog should be put down. Wow. Read the N&O story here.
I hate to see animals harmed. I also hate to see humans in danger. But there has to be a better solution than ending the poor dogs life. Make the owners get the dog trained. This way everyone wins. Neighbors will be safer and the dog lives. Maybe training should be a condition of owning a pet in the first place to avoid this type of thing. I don't know. I had a German Shepard when I was a kid and she used to bite me! I was done with pets after that! But if my family would have trained her things would have been different.
What should happen to Honey?
please help us save Honey our Boxer
Honey our boxer has been in a cage without being walked or removed from her cage since december 16. We found her lying in urine on Sunday with no response to our visit, until we went into the cage and she began crying while my daughter was visiting her and would not stop. We hired a behavioralist to take honey out and paid her $250 to assess her and she tried everything possible to make Honey aggressive but she could not. We know Honey is not dangerous, she is only behaving this way under an electric fence at the location in Raleigh. We do not live in wake county any longer and honey does not behave and has never behaved agressively toward anyone, only chases along our 3 acre electric fence line in Raleigh, protecting her area. We have offered to spend the money to send her to obedience training and good citizenship training, and no longer bring her to wake county, as we no longer live in this county. We have offered to build her a fence which no one has ever asked us to do, we have offered to muzzle her and keep her on a leash at all times, but this is not good enough for wake county. Mr. Batton, the county attorney, says he must destroy the animal, and he has no choice.
Please help me save our family member, honey, who in wake county is considered of no more value than the rug lying on my floor, just a piece of property!