It is about time that the way our animals are treated here in Laurens, SC by those that are suppose to protect them come to light. There is more to come. Much more.
Obviously the reporter nor the public defender live in a rural areas and have to put up with roaming wild dogs. Bless your hearts. Officer Brown helped me on several occasions with the criminals who litter on roadsides. The littering, animals running wild, etc are the illegal, “nefarious” activities the reporter and public defender should be concerned about. Too bad Officer Brown is no longer here to help the law abiding citizens who care about their community.
Bottom line is if the actions of the officers were something that they themselves would arrest and charge a civilian for doing. Then how wld u justify the officers not facing the same consequences. They are bound by the same laws as anybody else. They are supposed to be anyway. Guess not.
YOU ARE CLUELESS! These dogs had been an absolute nightmare for my family and our neighborhood for almost a year! These dogs have killed countless pets and I watched them drag a dog right off of his owners’ deck! By the grace of God, that dog escaped. You should have seen them when they ripped my neighbors’ cat in half…they were not harmless. They came at my husband TWICE, they came at me, growling and snarling, and I was in my own back yard. And yes, that one dog had an old collar on, but had been running with a pack for a YEAR prior to this. A YEAR! They did not walk into someone’s back yard and open fire for no reason! YOU ARE LITERALLY TRYING TO MAKE ANIMAL CONTROL LOOK BAD. We call that SLANDER where I come from. You have one very small part of this story. Why haven’t you talked to me, or my neighbors? We could enlighten you as to the truth. These dogs were not friendly, they were not dogs that could be rehabilitated. I absolutely love animals, and I am usually the first person to stand up for an animal. Not this time. Not after being face to face with these dogs. I have worked with dogs my entire life, these were no longer domesticated animals. Just because a bear lays in your yard and takes a nap, doesn’t make it harmless! They were wild and they would do whatever they needed to in order to survive. These dogs had us held prisoner in our own home! We had to “be sure” the dogs were not around just to take our dog out in his own yard! Animal control came out EVERY TIME I CALLED! They tried to resolve this peacefully, they tried to work with us. They set traps for weeks in my back yard, the dogs literally walked past the traps. They tried to stake out the dogs, and they also tried to find where they were bedding down. All to no avail! These dogs moved just like a pack of coyotes; they would run into heavy brush to avoid being caught. Dogs run fast, very fast, you have to be able to shoot when they are still, if at all possible. You should have seen them when they cornered prey, they worked the area together, they would corner it. then they would move in from behind. Imagine them coming up on you, your grandma, your child. It would not be a nice way to die. You would have been the first person to beg for these dogs to be killed, had they attacked a child. Please, stop making up news and start reporting facts. This is the most one sided, incorrect, and misinformed news story I have ever heard. You should be ashamed of yourself for reporting fake news. I stand behind these officers 100% for their THOROUGH investigation and follow through. I thank these officers for shooting these dogs.
Sincerly, Patty McNerney Laurens Resident
You don’t shoot a dog with buckshot at 30 yards and leave it to go and suffer and then you don’t just get back in your vehicle and leave without making contact with the landowner and then when a member of the community shoots a dog that is killing their animals you go in charge them what sense does that make?
Squishy123 (the original) December 14, 2023 at 2:05 pm
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a hysterical woman. From the video, there was no attempt by the heroes to even try to capture these three vicious animals as they laid in the grass sunbathing as armed strangers approached them.
Laurens County has brought this problem on themselves for YEARS! Animal control REFUSES to pick up or take in stray dogs claiming their shelter is full so they can claim to be a “no kill facility” to the public. In the meantime they’re leaving dogs on the streets starving to death, getting hit by cars or shot. These strays are unaltered and unvaccinated which means they’re breeding adding to the problem. Eventually dogs WILL turn feral and run in packs of wild dogs trying to survive by eating or killing anything they can find because nobody is taking care of them! Strange they can write a citation for animal cruelty or no up to date vaccines when basically the county is doing the exact same thing! It’s NOT the property owners responsibility to deal with stray animals when we pay taxes for animal control! Check out Laurens County Sheriff’s Animal Control page on Facebook! They come out, take pictures wherever strays are found, LEAVE them there with NOBODY taking care of them then post them on their facebook page saying if this is your dog contact us so we can help you get it home? State law REQUIRES food, water and shelter for pets and you can actually be arrested for animal cruelty! How can the county not be held accountable for deliberately leaving starving animals on the streets without food water or shelter? There was recently three goats killed in the city that was all over the news which turned out to be a pack of dogs that killed them. What will it take? A child getting mauled or tons of lawsuits against the county where people got hurt? DO YOUR JOB that our taxes PAY you to do Laurens County!
Here is the bottom line. For a Sheriff who has championed himself and his Department for handling animals with love, care, and affording them ANIMAL RIGHTS, he sure did not live up to the official mission. He has always been quick to call regular citizens SCUM, MORONS, LESS THANS, and anything else that flies out of his mouth about others abusing animals. But he will go and reward two Deputys that flat out did just that, abused animals. They could have used tranquilizers and put the dogs under, then transported them and put them down humanely. But instead he let his LT. shoot the dogs like that Deputy was Rambo or something. Good job Sheriff…. NOT. So I beg the question, would you do the same to a Suspect if behind closed doors? Laurens County Doesn’t need a Walker Texas Ranger wanna be as Sheriff, or his Elvis TCB tag on his car. Yea you sure are TCB alright! Taking Care Of Bussiness, the Corrupt kind!!!!!!
The problem began before CoVid. The new guy figured out a way to make AC a money maker rather than the deficit it has always been by focusing on puppy mills, dog fighting and backyard breeder raids. Which is a good thing but not to the extend that there is only room for money making dogs due to court cases which takes months. There is no room for strays and when a dog is alone on its own for so long they naturally will become a part of a pack and do what it needs to provide for themselves. There needs to be a balance. X amount of kennels for court and x amount for strays since that is what people pay taxes for. The longer AC stays filled with the money makers the worse the stray/wild dog problem is going to continue and get worse. I have had more than 1 or 2 people tell me that when they called AC about a stray on their property they were told it’s your property so shoot it cause we don’t have room.
KEEP YOUR DOGS CONTAINED!!!. If you cant take proper care of your animals and keep them inside, on a leash or in a fenced yard maybe you should not have any animals. And cant tell from the video but it looked to be pit bull breeds or mixed. These scenarios are far too common for so many who own this type dog. When they destroy your livestock or hurt and injure your kid or you you will think different.
Are you seriously saying that pit bull type dogs are more dangerous than other breeds? Whatever, these officers are wrong and cruel and they get away with it all to often. I believe you must be choosing not to hear what has been going on with Animal Control for many many years.
Andrew I shared this story on our local Laurens County group. Apparently there was a $280k allocation for AC and no one knows what happened to the money. There has not been any new building or staffing that we know of. One member says she has asked numerous times and gets no answers. Can you please look into this. Thanks
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I agree, they should be charged and if convicted of a felony, they will need to be discharged.
What felony? Triggering a snowflake animal lover?
Blues lives are all that matter.
It is about time that the way our animals are treated here in Laurens, SC by those that are suppose to protect them come to light. There is more to come. Much more.
Bless your heart.
Police have not sworn to protect dogs or you. Just property.
Obviously the reporter nor the public defender live in a rural areas and have to put up with roaming wild dogs. Bless your hearts. Officer Brown helped me on several occasions with the criminals who litter on roadsides. The littering, animals running wild, etc are the illegal, “nefarious” activities the reporter and public defender should be concerned about. Too bad Officer Brown is no longer here to help the law abiding citizens who care about their community.
The All Lives Matter crowd is now the Dogs Lives Matter crowd.
Sending thoughts and prayers.
Bottom line is if the actions of the officers were something that they themselves would arrest and charge a civilian for doing. Then how wld u justify the officers not facing the same consequences. They are bound by the same laws as anybody else. They are supposed to be anyway. Guess not.
YOU ARE CLUELESS! These dogs had been an absolute nightmare for my family and our neighborhood for almost a year! These dogs have killed countless pets and I watched them drag a dog right off of his owners’ deck! By the grace of God, that dog escaped. You should have seen them when they ripped my neighbors’ cat in half…they were not harmless. They came at my husband TWICE, they came at me, growling and snarling, and I was in my own back yard. And yes, that one dog had an old collar on, but had been running with a pack for a YEAR prior to this. A YEAR! They did not walk into someone’s back yard and open fire for no reason! YOU ARE LITERALLY TRYING TO MAKE ANIMAL CONTROL LOOK BAD. We call that SLANDER where I come from. You have one very small part of this story. Why haven’t you talked to me, or my neighbors? We could enlighten you as to the truth. These dogs were not friendly, they were not dogs that could be rehabilitated. I absolutely love animals, and I am usually the first person to stand up for an animal. Not this time. Not after being face to face with these dogs. I have worked with dogs my entire life, these were no longer domesticated animals. Just because a bear lays in your yard and takes a nap, doesn’t make it harmless! They were wild and they would do whatever they needed to in order to survive. These dogs had us held prisoner in our own home! We had to “be sure” the dogs were not around just to take our dog out in his own yard! Animal control came out EVERY TIME I CALLED! They tried to resolve this peacefully, they tried to work with us. They set traps for weeks in my back yard, the dogs literally walked past the traps. They tried to stake out the dogs, and they also tried to find where they were bedding down. All to no avail! These dogs moved just like a pack of coyotes; they would run into heavy brush to avoid being caught. Dogs run fast, very fast, you have to be able to shoot when they are still, if at all possible. You should have seen them when they cornered prey, they worked the area together, they would corner it. then they would move in from behind. Imagine them coming up on you, your grandma, your child. It would not be a nice way to die. You would have been the first person to beg for these dogs to be killed, had they attacked a child. Please, stop making up news and start reporting facts. This is the most one sided, incorrect, and misinformed news story I have ever heard. You should be ashamed of yourself for reporting fake news. I stand behind these officers 100% for their THOROUGH investigation and follow through. I thank these officers for shooting these dogs.
Sincerly, Patty McNerney Laurens Resident
You don’t shoot a dog with buckshot at 30 yards and leave it to go and suffer and then you don’t just get back in your vehicle and leave without making contact with the landowner and then when a member of the community shoots a dog that is killing their animals you go in charge them what sense does that make?
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a hysterical woman. From the video, there was no attempt by the heroes to even try to capture these three vicious animals as they laid in the grass sunbathing as armed strangers approached them.
These dogs needed to be put down before they killed someone.
Like Lt. Byrd, or not, he did the right thing, and he’s an upstanding officer
Laurens County has brought this problem on themselves for YEARS! Animal control REFUSES to pick up or take in stray dogs claiming their shelter is full so they can claim to be a “no kill facility” to the public. In the meantime they’re leaving dogs on the streets starving to death, getting hit by cars or shot. These strays are unaltered and unvaccinated which means they’re breeding adding to the problem. Eventually dogs WILL turn feral and run in packs of wild dogs trying to survive by eating or killing anything they can find because nobody is taking care of them! Strange they can write a citation for animal cruelty or no up to date vaccines when basically the county is doing the exact same thing! It’s NOT the property owners responsibility to deal with stray animals when we pay taxes for animal control! Check out Laurens County Sheriff’s Animal Control page on Facebook! They come out, take pictures wherever strays are found, LEAVE them there with NOBODY taking care of them then post them on their facebook page saying if this is your dog contact us so we can help you get it home? State law REQUIRES food, water and shelter for pets and you can actually be arrested for animal cruelty! How can the county not be held accountable for deliberately leaving starving animals on the streets without food water or shelter? There was recently three goats killed in the city that was all over the news which turned out to be a pack of dogs that killed them. What will it take? A child getting mauled or tons of lawsuits against the county where people got hurt? DO YOUR JOB that our taxes PAY you to do Laurens County!
Here is the bottom line. For a Sheriff who has championed himself and his Department for handling animals with love, care, and affording them ANIMAL RIGHTS, he sure did not live up to the official mission. He has always been quick to call regular citizens SCUM, MORONS, LESS THANS, and anything else that flies out of his mouth about others abusing animals. But he will go and reward two Deputys that flat out did just that, abused animals. They could have used tranquilizers and put the dogs under, then transported them and put them down humanely. But instead he let his LT. shoot the dogs like that Deputy was Rambo or something. Good job Sheriff…. NOT. So I beg the question, would you do the same to a Suspect if behind closed doors? Laurens County Doesn’t need a Walker Texas Ranger wanna be as Sheriff, or his Elvis TCB tag on his car. Yea you sure are TCB alright! Taking Care Of Bussiness, the Corrupt kind!!!!!!
The problem began before CoVid. The new guy figured out a way to make AC a money maker rather than the deficit it has always been by focusing on puppy mills, dog fighting and backyard breeder raids. Which is a good thing but not to the extend that there is only room for money making dogs due to court cases which takes months. There is no room for strays and when a dog is alone on its own for so long they naturally will become a part of a pack and do what it needs to provide for themselves. There needs to be a balance. X amount of kennels for court and x amount for strays since that is what people pay taxes for. The longer AC stays filled with the money makers the worse the stray/wild dog problem is going to continue and get worse. I have had more than 1 or 2 people tell me that when they called AC about a stray on their property they were told it’s your property so shoot it cause we don’t have room.
KEEP YOUR DOGS CONTAINED!!!. If you cant take proper care of your animals and keep them inside, on a leash or in a fenced yard maybe you should not have any animals. And cant tell from the video but it looked to be pit bull breeds or mixed. These scenarios are far too common for so many who own this type dog. When they destroy your livestock or hurt and injure your kid or you you will think different.
Are you seriously saying that pit bull type dogs are more dangerous than other breeds? Whatever, these officers are wrong and cruel and they get away with it all to often. I believe you must be choosing not to hear what has been going on with Animal Control for many many years.
Andrew I shared this story on our local Laurens County group. Apparently there was a $280k allocation for AC and no one knows what happened to the money. There has not been any new building or staffing that we know of. One member says she has asked numerous times and gets no answers. Can you please look into this. Thanks