I'm sorry the family pet got killed but what bothers me just as much is the lack of any felt responsibility on the part of the owners. Possibly the dog just got loose from a pen or a chain and got shot but my guess is that it didn't happen that way.

I love my kids and people claim to love their dogs too but I don't let my kids roam around all aver the country unsupervised because I do love them and I don't want anything to happen to them. I do agree that no one should have killed a dog close to it's home but I still want owners to take some responsibility for not keeping their pets out of harm's way.