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Posted: 9/9/2004 3:38:40 AM EDT
Police: Puppy Shot Man Trying To Kill Dogs
 POSTED: 7:02 am EDT September 9, 2004 UPDATED: 7:05 am EDT September 9, 2004 PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A man who was trying to shoot seven puppies was shot himself when one of the dogs made the .38-caliber revolver discharge, deputies said. Jerry Allen Bradford, 37, of Pensacola, was charged with felony animal cruelty, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. Bradford was being treated at an undisclosed hospital for the gunshot wound to his wrist, said sheriff's Sgt. Ted Roy. Bradford said he decided to shoot the 3-month-old puppies in the head because he couldn't find another home for the shepherd-mix dogs, according to the sheriff's office. On Monday, he was holding two puppies, one in his arms and another in his left hand, when the dog in his hand wiggled and put its paw on the trigger, making the gun discharge, the sheriff's report said. The revolver and a rifle were seized from the home, deputies said. Deputies found three of the puppies in a shallow grave outside Bradford's home, Roy said. The other four appeared to be in good health and were taken by Escambia County Animal Control, which planned to make them available for adoption. "That should never have to happen," said Bruce Rova, director of the Escambia County Animal Shelter. "There are so many options people have. We'll try to find them a new home." http://www.local6.com/news/3716897/detail.html |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 3:39:52 AM EDT
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A .38!!!
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Posted: 9/9/2004 3:44:02 AM EDT
[#2]
serves the doucebag right, remember Dog spelled backwards is..................
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Posted: 9/9/2004 3:50:23 AM EDT
[#3]
good dog.
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Posted: 9/9/2004 4:08:01 AM EDT
[#4]
The puppy has a future in law enforcement
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Posted: 9/9/2004 4:12:14 AM EDT
[#5]
The puppies were taken to a shelter where they will be killed by other means. Same outcome, different method.
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Posted: 9/9/2004 4:19:36 AM EDT
[#6]
The puppies were taken to a shelter where they will be killed by other means. Same outcome, different method.
Riiiight... bet you a dollar that there is already a waiting list for people to foster the puppies. and the parting shot is knowing that dipshit may have to answer this question... "so, what are you in for?" |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 4:30:40 AM EDT
[#7]
and jsut imagine that you'd be able to say that your new puppy shot its previous owner in self defence. that could turn out to be the greatest dog ever.
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Posted: 9/9/2004 4:34:39 AM EDT
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+1 Serves the asshole right, too bad he didn't die. There's plenty of love waiting for him in the lockup. " Here's your cell Mr. Asshole, and here's your cellmate Tiny. Did I mention he's a dog lover ?" 
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Posted: 9/9/2004 4:38:55 AM EDT
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+2 |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 4:44:42 AM EDT
[#10]
It was pretty funny when I heard about it on the radio, I beleive he got what he deserved and he should also get some seriouse jail time, what idiot.
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Posted: 9/9/2004 4:47:16 AM EDT
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No, hes right. My wife and her friend used to work at a kennel that also took the stray animals the Animal Control picked up. Alot of animals get put down, and I'm sure these puppies do to. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 4:48:27 AM EDT
[#12]
I guess he never heard of having his dog fixed? What a dumbass, GOOD PUPPY!
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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:01:42 AM EDT
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They will now simply because they have made the news. If they hadn't, I'm willing to bet that the majority of them would have been put down. Use to do some volunteer work for a lady locally known as "The Cat Lady" because she ran a shelter with over 3,000 cats and 700 dogs before people that owned acreage around her decided they wanted to build and didn't want the shelter next to them. Her and husband promoted having cats and dogs fixed because they had seen with their own eyes what happens to unwanted animals. Their organization was called, "Life for God's Stray Animals." After the county shut them down due to the pressure of the land owners around them that were starting to build homes, most of those animals were put down. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:04:17 AM EDT
[#14]
Would that be Deputy Dog? |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:06:13 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:06:57 AM EDT
[#16]
WHEN PUPPIES ATTACK!
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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:14:14 AM EDT
[#17]
Give me a break. Felony animal cruelty? He was putting down some dogs. Something that happens to millions of dogs and cats every year. A .38 in the head, quick and painless. It sounds like he even tried to find them homes. At least he was taking responsibility, instead of dropping them off in your backyard, or at the shelter, where they would have met the same fate.
P.S. They were just dogs. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:20:35 AM EDT
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What you forget is that in todays amerikka, animals have more rights than people |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:21:46 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:52:53 AM EDT
[#20]
A 38 huh? I bet the guy's only other gun was a 10/22...
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Posted: 9/9/2004 5:58:23 AM EDT
[#21]
*Ahem*. I'm arowneragain, and I approve of this post! |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:04:25 AM EDT
[#22]
My thoughts exactly. I remember a day when a man would have been commended for doing this instead of turning them loose to starve. What a crazy politically correct world we live in. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:07:18 AM EDT
[#23]
I approve of it as well. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:07:29 AM EDT
[#24]
Maybe if he had been responsible and had his dox fixed... no puppies. You guys favor abortion on demand for women who are too irresponsible to use birth control?
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:09:17 AM EDT
[#25]
This ass wipe is gonna find out in jail the true meaning of "doggy style"!!!!
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:09:26 AM EDT
[#26]
Your argument is weak, Hiram. In case you haven't noticed, there is a slight difference in a human child and a dog. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:09:44 AM EDT
[#27]
I agree as well. I am a pet owner, both large and small. There are times, when the responsibility of the owner is to solve the problem himself. We don't know how/why he had these puppies. He tried to find them a home, and then euthanized them, the same as a shelter would do. TRG |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:10:51 AM EDT
[#28]
+1 |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:26:40 AM EDT
[#29]
No my argument is not weak... its taking a life because you weren't responsible enough in the first place to prevent it. The fact of the matter is as an animal owner you have a responsibility to either fix your pet, isolate the bitch when she is in heat, or find homes for the animals if your irresponsibility led to their birth. In the very least take them to a shelter where they will be euthanized humanely. And no, taking puppies one by one and blowing their heads off is not humane. Not if they are scared shitless by a loud explosion and witnessing their litter mates get offed.
How positively human, locking one dog under your arm while you blow another's head off mere inches away. If puppy is in left hand and was able to hit the trigger of pistol in right hand, it means said pistol was likely pressed against its head... and where is the other puppy... oh yeah, scared to death and clamped under the asshole's arm waiting for his turn to be offed. If you own a pet, than take a little fucking responsibility and fix the animal unless you intend to breed it... and if that is your intent, do it responsibly. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:31:42 AM EDT
[#30]
yep, I'm ordering my fine puppy vest today 
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Posted: 9/9/2004 6:35:05 AM EDT
[#31]
.jpg) TRG |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 7:07:36 AM EDT
[#32]
That's aboout how I feel. I don't see the crime. He didn't put 'em on a grill and torch 'em or anything. He put them down. Maybe he could have done other things but they are just animals not human children. I love dogs too, but I don't see the crime. Hell the hillbillies I grew up around didn't waste a bullet, they just put em in a sack and toss it in a creek. I have more issues with slowly drowning them than with putting them down instantly. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 7:24:47 AM EDT
[#33]
Yeah, God forbid he should drop them off at a shelter and they give the dog a shot and it falls asleep and doesn't wake up... INSTEAD, clamp one pup under the arm while pressing a pistol to the head of another one inches away... get shot in the process and make all gun owners look like incompentent idiots.
OR BETTER YET, DO THE FUCKING RESPONSIBLE THING AND SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR PETS! |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 7:34:49 AM EDT
[#34]
The only assholes I see are the ones in LE who feel it is there "godly mission" to charge the guy with felony counts.
The rest of you who think that he should go to federal "pound me in the ass" prision or be executed are just plain wrong. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 7:48:53 AM EDT
[#35]
Cha-CHING. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 7:55:08 AM EDT
[#36]
Some of you people are amazing.... you believe in gun rights and personal responsibility.... and when this man (however gruesome the task) was exercising BOTH.... you want him imprisoned??? YOU MAKE ME SICK!
 So its ok for the GOVERNMENT to take his animals, lock them in a cage, then KILL them at the end of the week.... but it's CRIMINAL when he takes the responsibility on himself???? Some of you people better wake up and figure out what you stand for. A whole bunch if hypocracy running rampant in this thread. 
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Posted: 9/9/2004 8:03:32 AM EDT
[#37]
Chewing bubblegum...? TRG |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 8:05:39 AM EDT
[#38]
The guys a dipshit for allowing his dog to breed.
The guys a total fucking moron for allowing a puppy to shoot him. JACKASS!!The guy was just putting down unwanted puppies, nothing wrong with that, although there are better ways of doing it. Civics lesson 101: Who makes the arrests? Who upholds the laws? Who charges the accused? Who makes the laws? |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 8:07:18 AM EDT
[#39]
Spaying and neutering your pets is wrong because you remove the decision of the animal of whether or not it should have babies.
The story does not tell of how the country bumpkin got the puppies, I would guess a drive off dumping of a pregnant bitch, now he is stuck with puppies no one wants. Stupid gun handling, a burlap sack with a brick into the creek would have worked as well. They are his property to do with as he sees fit. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 8:15:26 AM EDT
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Reading an awful lot into this aren't you? Drive-by dumping of puppies? You have a source for that, or are you just talking out of your ass? So, not his pregnant bitch, but the puppies are his property to do with as he wishes? Man, you never fail to let me down with your posts. 
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Posted: 9/9/2004 8:17:43 AM EDT
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Yeah, I get a little excited from time to time. :-) People need to figure out what they believe in and be consistent. Think things through a little.  I do have to say, the guy is a dumbass for poor gun handling... without question.... and got the punishment he earned himself for that. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 8:22:22 AM EDT
[#42]
My godly mission would have been to take the puppy down at gunpoint, submit to the DA for a murder one, strap a 4 year firearm bitch on his sorry ass, and then PC him in the cat wing of county.  
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Posted: 9/9/2004 8:25:45 AM EDT
[#43]
 Oh fuck!! HAHAHAAAAA |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 9:02:17 AM EDT
[#44]
This guy is a dirtbag and if I see him on the street, I am going to knock the living shit out of him.
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Posted: 9/9/2004 9:08:37 AM EDT
[#45]
I'd get that little pup in a heartbeat. Would name him "Shooter".
What a good boy.  - CD |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 9:28:01 AM EDT
[#46]
The guy doesn't sound like a genius to me, but as much as I love dogs, I don't see anything wrong with putting the puppies down himself.
Let's face it, most dogs that go to the pound probably end up being put to sleep. As long as the puppies don't suffer, and as long as he's not enjoying himself (puppy target practice) I can't really find a crime in what he did. Hell, maybe he was practicing for the police academy. I think you have to kill at least 7 puppies before you make Sergeant.
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Posted: 9/9/2004 9:39:25 AM EDT
[#47]
Jesus Christ... read the article... he had one puppy under his arms, another in his left hand, his right hand pressed against the dog when the pistol was tripped and he shot himself. So... what exactly do you think that puppy under the arm was going through... locked tight and probably scared... his or her littermate inches away with a gun pressed to its head ready to end it. I don't see how a pistol going off inches away from the dog waiting in the wings for its turn to die could be scary or inhumane... nope not a fucking clue.
Let's see, take it to the pound and it dies as well... but a vet tech gives the dog an injection and it goes to sleep. Not traumatic for the dog, certainly not painful... but no, he had a gun and an attitude and figured he would be a man by blowing some puppies' heads off. He is an asshole, and I hope that wound gets infected and he suffers long and hard. I hope he does do a little time, and I pray to God that somebody shows him how little love God has for those who would treat an animal like this. |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 9:57:13 AM EDT
[#48]
 TRG |
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Posted: 9/9/2004 10:05:53 AM EDT
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Reading a little bit into the story I see? Remember your 'response' to Dave H? "Reading an awful lot into this aren't you? Drive-by dumping of puppies? You have a source for that, or are you just talking out of your ass? So, not his pregnant bitch, but the puppies are his property to do with as he wishes? Man, you never fail to let me down with your posts." You are such a hypocrite it is hilarious! 
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Posted: 9/9/2004 10:08:46 AM EDT
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 TRG |
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