Dog kills baby sea lion in Laguna Beach

[Kimberly]

A case study on hypocrisy

A congressman's step daughter's dog kills a BABY SEA LION, possibly the cutest animal on the planet, and one would naturally assume DUers would want severe punishment for the perp and the congressman. Like the death penalty or life imprisonment. Public flogging and property confiscation. And there should be plenty of speculation on the daughter doing it on purpose because rethugs like violence and hate animals with the thread getting hundreds of responses.

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 04:55 PM

Star Member The Straight Story (40,483 posts)

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Dog kills baby sea lion in Laguna Beach
  
Dog kills baby sea lion in Laguna Beach
The American bulldog is owned by a step-daughter of 


LAGUNA BEACH An American bulldog owned by a stepdaughter of                           attacked and killed a baby sea lion in Laguna Beach on Saturday, officials said.

One of            adult step-daughters was walking the dog with a friend at 1:42 p.m. when the dog knocked her down and got away, said Sgt. Eric Lee of the Laguna Beach Police Department. That's when the dog attacked the sea lion at Goff Beach, he said.

The dog belongs to               stepdaughter, who lives in Texas, said Jen Bluestein, a senior adviser to Americans for Responsible Solutions, a political action committee launched by                       .

               and her husband,                                                , were not with the dog at the time, Lee said.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/dog-501061-beach-sea.html

Of course, this being the DUmp, everything depends on that letter behind your name.

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Sun Mar 24, 2013, 09:43 PM

Star Member Honeycombe8 (17,127 posts)

11. Well, you can own it, but not walk it on a leash. Still, it can happen.
 
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I was certainly in control of a cocker spaniel I used to have. But he took off from me as we were walking thru the front door to go outside on our walk...the leash just slid through my hand. He had never done that before. He was running to bark at another dog walking in front of our yard. No harm done. Dog owner very angry despite my apology and no harm done. I got to my dog quickly, and all he was doing was barking at the dog walking by. My dog was a cocker spaniel..not an attack dog.

So accidents do happen. Still, it was my fault that I wasn't holding the leash in a way to prevent that. I have other dogs now, and I always hold the leash at all times in such a way that that won't happen.

Just sayin' that this is not a perfect world. Accidents happen. But the owner is still responsible.

Horrible thing to have happened.

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Sun Mar 24, 2013, 09:55 PM

Star Member bluedigger (9,641 posts)

13. I agree that accidents do happen.
 
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I don't know the particulars of this incident as I wasn't there. And control can be either physical or verbal, or hand commands even. Certainly nobody is perfect - I've dropped my dog's leash a few times, but never had her pull it out of my hands. (I take that back - same thing happened as you described - I got caught awkwardly leaving the house when she ran to say hello to a passing dog as we exited and banged my knuckles on the door frame.  ) I've also seen her ignore deer when she was off leash - she isn't very aggressive. The key is to know your dog and be prepared for what it will do. This wouldn't have been a story if it wasn't for the Gifford's connection.

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Sun Mar 24, 2013, 05:59 PM

olddots (786 posts)

4. The Orange County Register manages to to mention Gabby Giffords
 
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in a story she has nothing to do with .

 Yes it was dumb to walk a dog like that near other animals if you aren't strong enough to handle it but the winger rag didn't need to involve Gabby Giffords ......well it needed to sell papers .

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Sun Mar 24, 2013, 08:17 PM

Star Member Marrah_G (21,373 posts)

7. Sad story
 
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I don't see a villian here. The dog was doing what dogs do. Maybe they need to rethink who is walking the dog and maybe some additional training because it's a powerful dog.

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Mon Mar 25, 2013, 04:15 AM

Star Member Live and Learn (1,368 posts)

29. Am sure the dog owner felt terrible about it.
 
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Accidents do still happen, believe it or not.

In the meantime, humans legally kill not only sea lions but may other animals and other humans every day.  

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Mon Mar 25, 2013, 04:41 AM

Socal31 (1,065 posts)

30. Nature.
 
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Not pretty, not something I personally would want to see. However, I surely wont blame a dog or a human for it.

 

And that's most of the thread, not counting the argument over whether the dog was a pit bull or not. If you click the link, the congressman is Gabrielle Giffords. Just imagine if the daughter was a Romney, Rubio, Rand or any other Republican.

[Ptarmigan]

Hypocrisy runs deep. 

[98ZJUSMC]

 

And tomorrow, Baby Sea Lion gets eaten by a killer whale.  It's life, idiots.  It's chock full-O-reality.  Learn to deal with it while we privatize all your indoctrination centers and defund all your unions.  

Oh, wait...you're doing that yourselves, aren't you?

Faster, if you don't mind.

Hypocrisy runs deep. 

Kinda surprised they didn't find a way to blame:

A). Palin
B). Cruz
C). Bush
D). Jooooooooooooz
E). Cheney  (they have 24 more business hours to do so)

[DumbAss Tanker]

Good.  Too bad it wasn't two or three harbor seal pups, though.

 

[GOBUCKS]

I'm happy to be a couple of thousand miles away from California, but I've heard that sea lions have become the nastiest, smelliest, most plentiful and destructive vermin coastal property owners have to deal with in California, aside from their fellow Californians.

The moonbats have all kinds of laws that even prevent property owners from shooing the damn things away.

They sound like the geese on our golf courses. People who have to deal with them don't mourn when one, or many of them, dies.

[NHSparky]

Of course, if this had been Jenna or Barbara Bush walking the dog, the DUmmies would be calling for GWB to be frog-marched to the OC County Courthouse post-haste.

Which, by no small coincidence, is the same jail to which Al Gore III was taken for speeding over 100 mph IN A PRIUS, and was then bailed out by his sister and driven off from the jail IN A MASERATI.

[Kimberly]

I'm happy to be a couple of thousand miles away from California, but I've heard that sea lions have become the nastiest, smelliest, most plentiful and destructive vermin coastal property owners have to deal with in California, aside from their fellow Californians.

The moonbats have all kinds of laws that even prevent property owners from shooing the damn things away.

They sound like the geese on our golf courses. People who have to deal with them don't mourn when one, or many of them, dies.

So the sea lions are protected? Sounds like the daughter is getting special treatment if the average person would be fined or arrested for killing one.

[AprilRazz]

They just left it on the beach.

**Warning for some blood**
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGBWZLRr1Eg&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]

[JohnnyReb]

So lets outlaw pit bulls....oh!....some places already do.....so lets outlaw sea lion pups....I know, outlaw guns because if he had been allowed to take procession of that AR15 immediately this would not have happen. He would have been out shooting a theatre some where instead of walking a dangerous dog.

Hey, it'll make perfect sense to some DUmmies.

[Ptarmigan]

Time to ‘ban dogs’? Vicious assault dog belonging to Mark Kelly’s daughter kills baby sea lion
http://twitchy.com/2013/03/26/time-to-ban-dogs-vicious-assault-dog-belonging-to-mark-kellys-daughter-kills-baby-sea-lion

[JohnnyReb]

Time to ‘ban dogs’? Vicious assault dog belonging to Mark Kelly’s daughter kills baby sea lion
http://twitchy.com/2013/03/26/time-to-ban-dogs-vicious-assault-dog-belonging-to-mark-kellys-daughter-kills-baby-sea-lion

I can only have a 10 round magazine....OK....you can only have a 10 pound dog.