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Show LETTERS irritated and concerned owe much more responsibility to the citizens you represent. I disagree with your IT'S ALL UP TO YOU attitude. My dog was ruthlessly killed for an alleged attack that was never committed. If it were "all up to me" a retaliative action of a similar nature would have occured. You have defended the rights of the sheepherder; how will you defend the citizens you stand for? Editor: I am irritated and concerned by the attitude expressed by Park City's Animal Control Officer T. Hansen. In recent "letters to the editor" she takes a position of defending the "rights" of Park City's friendly neighboring sheepherders. "Rights" from my past experience which proved to be abused in a disgusting and often unnecessary exhibition of mass slayings and poisonings. How can you rationalize the unaccountable disappearances, the illegal poisonings, and the unjustified shootings of over forty dogs using an illustration like Fido's letter to the editor? I'm outraged by the narrow-mindedness of your approach. I find it discouraging, for someone who takes her job as seriously as yourself, that your only solution to these atrocities is a stricter leash law. The Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals investigates crimes of this nature, but you have not mentioned any effort on your part to contact this group. A federal law prohibits the use of strycnine, a reoccuring poison blamed for the deaths of many dogs, except for licensed pest control officers. Yet you accept .this form of torturous death as though you have no responsibility in the matter. These sheepherders are a known threat to the safety and individual freedoms of community commun-ity citizens. These men don't just carry guns, they use them. Their usage isn't "always discreet or just. As a responsible pet owner whose precious pet was irresponsibly irrespon-sibly shot last summer, I stress the urgency for an efficient method of protection. Who wants "trigger happy" offenders with in city limits? Bullets stray, poisons linger, accidents happen; have happened. I contend that the city and you |