My Muskingum County Animal Rant Ok let me start off by saying most of you know I love animals, a lot. I actually like most animals more than I like most people. I also generally dislike and do not trust law enforcement officers. Sure not all of them are bad, but in general, I don’t trust them. Also I am from Muskingum County. With that said, I DO agree with how this situation was handled. It is sad, but yes, I agree that the best course of action was to use deadly force to save human lives. Everyone that is screaming that they should use tranquilizers, has watched way too many movies. First off, that shit has to be administered based off weight, the amount needs to be correct, too much, you kill the animal anyway, so little and all you did was get a proficient killer stoned and pissed off. But if you get close, the animal might lay down and look like it is asleep, until the Sheriff walks up and tries to put it in a cage, then bye bye sheriff. Also the animals need a vets care while sedated like that. Think about it, they put you grammy down for her hip surgery, there where Doctors there monitoring her vitals. And all of you people that are screaming about the “Poor Animals” and talking shit about the sheriff would be screaming as well if one of these animals had gotten a child, or killed and old lady as she walked to her car. The sheriff was in a lose lose situation. It sucks, he made the call, and it was the right call in my opinion. At this point, the ONLY arguments I am willing to listen to are from Zoo keepers and people with experience trying to tranquilize large animals. O wait, Jack Hanna, likely the most famous zoo keeper ever, said it was the right call as well. Hmmmmmm. No moving on to the “Villain” in this, Terry. Notice I put the word villain in quotes did you? Yea, that is because he was not. Yea, he made a bad call in all this, they was monumentally stupid of him, but if you back up just a step, we had a man in so much pain, that he was to the point that the only way he could see to make the pain stop was to take his own life. Have you been there? No? Then you don’t know, you have no clue what that much pain can do to the mind. For those of you who have been there, you know what I mean. I can say I did not know Terry, but I knew people who did know him. The stories I heard where all the same about the same, basically he was odd, didn’t quite fit the norm, but not generally mean and nasty. And as for the gun charges, do a little homework, He was a dealer, his license expired. The judge was even lenient about it, giving him only a year. So before you villainize Terry, think of how much pain he was in. Maybe his though, although not right was, If I am gone, no one will take care of them, and they will die, if I let them go, they can find food and a life in the hills. Again we will never know what he was thinking, what we do know is he was in a lot of pain.