smroadkill15 said:
I'm not sure what to really do. I want to try and make amends with the neighbor at some point. Pay any vet bills or get him a new cat or something. Personally, I don't really think a dog killing a cat is worth putting the dog down. Or course I'm being bias. I know my dog doesn't like cats and this is why we don't have one in the house. It would be different if the dog attacked another dog or person. He would be put down immediately. All I'm saying is, every animal has their natural instincts. Cats kill small animals all the time. Imagine if his cat killed a neighbors bird. Would you think he would put the cat down? Probably not.
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Just based on this paragraph alone it seems pretty obvious you couldn't care less about what happened to your neighbor's cat and only care about whether your dog will be put down because of it, and if that's the case than that is a disgusting attitude to have and you shouldn't have had a pet in the first place then.
1. You write "or get him a new cat or something" as if it's something that can easily be replaceable like a new shirt. For all you know he could have had that cat for so many years and lived most of his life with it and grown a huge bond with it during that time. Well that bond and love he had with it are gone now because of your dog, him getting a new cat isn't going to just fill that empty spot since it's not the same.
2. You wrote in another post in this thread that you "know your dog would never attack any person or child" but the fact of the matter is that you don't know this. If your dog is gonna kill a cat then it could easily try again with anyone else it sees. It reminds me of how I think I remember there being something about how if a bear in a circus attacks or kills a human then they put it down because it will see how easy it was to do and will try it again.
3. @ bolded: Fucking hell, I already mentioned before in this post but talk about you not giving a shit about a cat being dead because of your dog. You basically say that just because you see cats as worth less than dogs and that is why you don't think your dog should be put down because of it. Just because you think less of cats doesn't mean your neighbor feels the same way. It reads like you're trying to make it seem like the neighbor is being unreasonable for perhaps being upset that you killed his pet, which he has every right to be or to say that your dog should be put down.
It's your dog and you are 100% responsible for its actions since you chose to adopt it and be its owner, and since a cat is now dead because of it that means you cannot ensure that you can keep control of your dog or how it behaves.
Personally I think once an animal kills something like another pet or attacks something or someone to the point where it almost killed them then it should be either put down or taken away since it presents a risk that it will attack another thing again in the future, perhaps a person or small child after already attacking one thing and seeing how easy it was. So yes I think your dog should be put down then or taken away then.