Wyoming Vertic NOT-GUILTY

[dutchman]

Attached is the latest news from Wyoming.
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It is with great sadness that I update you with a verdict...........Not Guilty
The Jury found, that Gilbert humanely euthanized these mean doxies.....Amanda's case was dropped, she had a heart attack, wasn't his fault she died. Huggy, was just a mean dog and deserved to die. Honey was going to kill his kids, when he had them at the use every other weekend. Funny she survived and is in a loving new home, that she has never showed any aggression to. They do not want Honey back, they are going to get a new Doxie pup as that is the owners preferred breed. This is out of the twilight zone......I'm very shocked. I was hoping for justice and an end..........This is so unreal and our work is not done........I'm getting together as much info as I can, for you to send email, snail mail and phone calls. I thought this would be a quick, guilty type case........Not a Not Guilty? I'll send more info when I get it.......This has only enraged me.....Teresa and The Colorado 8-Pack

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I too am upset and feel we need to do something to bring this more of a national attention. I better stop before I say something I shouldn't.<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm4.gif" border=0> <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm4.gif" border=0>

Tom

[Oscar's Mom]

I just cannot believe this. It makes me so sick.
Those poor sweeties, to be murdered and no justice in the end. What is wrong with this world.

[Meemoo]

Oh..that just makes me sick!! Those people should have their you know what cut off!! Oops..shouldn't have said that!! I just can't believe they could get off like that. How could a dachsie (a small dog) be a threat to someone's life? To brutally hurt those dogs is just barbaric. I'm so mad!!!

Loren<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm4.gif" border=0>

[dutchman]

By the way here is the link for the local paper is http://www.trib.com I don't know if they have anything today on the case and I'll have to check to see if they have an e-mail link.

Tom

[dutchman]

Attached is copy of a letter I just sent to the editorial e-mail address at the paper in Wyoming.

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Subject: A day of shame for Wyoming
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:45:04 -0700
From: Tom Schipper <schipper@CEMML.ColoState.EDU>
To: editorial@trib.com


I understand that yesterday a jury found Sidney Shipman and Gilbert Wozney were found not guilty of animal cruelty charges in the deaths of two dogs and the beating of a third. While I can understand the not guilty verdict in the case of the animal who died of a heart attack I can not understand not uilty on the other two charges. I understand that Mr. Gilbert claimed the dogs were a threat to his children who visit him every other ekend. Even if these were aggressive animals who were a threat to the safety of his children I fail to see how using a hammer to beat an animal to death can not be considered an act of cruelty. If these were aggressive animals they should have been taken to a vet or turned over to animal control officer so that they could be humanely put down.

This case has already gained international attention through the world wide web and will continue to do so. This is a big black eye on Wyoming a state which already had one back eye after the murder of a gay college student in Laramie last year. At least in that case the murders were convicted. While Cody is a very scenic place and the Cody Museum is a place I have been wanting to return to I now have second thoughts about going back. I fear I will be unable to visit that area without the thoughts of how the dogs in this case suffered and how a jury made up of members of that community failed to serve justice on those two men.

Thomas Schipper
3025 W. Stuart St., Unit D
Fort Collins, Colorado 80526

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Tom

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[Oscar's Mom]

Would it be help to write to any of these people also?

Here are names and email address of Wyoming's Elected Officials:

Governer James E. Geringer
E-mail address:Governor@missc.state.wy.us
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi
E-mail address:Senator@enzi.senate.gov
U.S. Senator Craig Thomas
E-mail address:craig@thomas.senate.gov
U.S. Representative Barbara Cubin www.house.gov/writerep/ (http://www.house.gov/writerep/)

[dutchman]

I don't know if writing all of those officials would help or not but at this point I don't see how it could do any harm. Perhaps we should wait and see what else Teresa has to suggest. I was also thing the State convention and Visitors Board to let them know I am having second thoughts about spending any time or money in Wyoming. The pocket book some how always seems to get thing moving faster than any thing else.

Thanks for you efforts and support. I'm afraid I'm not going to get too much done at work today. I hadn't check my e-mail last night and just found out the news when I got to work this morning. The people at work who would understand how I feel are all taking the day off.

Tom

[Wienergal]

I just received Teresa's e-mail and I am too shocked even to feel anger yet. I am stupefied! Was the prosecutor asleep through the proceedings? Did the prosecutor offer any kind of case at all? Was the man's history of domestic abuse brought up in the courtroom?

Let's flood the newspaper with e-mails. If this is how Wyoming is perceived throughout the nation, maybe that will have an impact next time.

The fact that these scum are actually planning to get another dachshund is terrifying. Of course, they will get it from a pet store, where no one cares who's buying as long as the money is handed over.

OK. I think I'm a little mad now.

[Wienergal]

Tom, I've gone to the newspaper page, but I can't find any link to the editorial address you posted. Do you think it would work if I just used that address? Or, can you point me to the correct place on that page?

Thanks.

[dutchman]

Here is the link to the web page with the e-mail addresses: http://www.trib.com/CST/email.html

Tom

[Wienergal]

Thanks for the link, Tom. I sent my letter, but I sent it to the "letters to the editor," instead of to Editorial.

My letter wasn't as nice as yours.

Pamela

[Roxane]

Thanks for posting Tom. Was off the machine since yesterday evening. When I came on tonight I got hit with a double whammy, first the Wyoming verdict, then the news about Queenie. This is almost too much to absorb all at one time. Will take the evening to collect my thoughts and sadly watch the candles burn down.
Jean has posted such a lovely bit of prose at In Loving Memory, I know it is helping me.
Thanks again,
Roxane

[Rosalyn]

Thanks Tom,
I sent e-mail to the editor: Dan Neal and I would think he could print it in his paper. Because I put up full name and address. But, not my phone #. So I doubt if they would print it. I said I had a real reason to put down a dog at one point in my life. And that there is a humane way to deal with dogs who attack. My daughter was 7 when she was attacked and we had to hold dog 10 days and had him humanely dispossed of. Now I said that I didn't hear both sides of the case. But, that in PA we take unwanted pets to the humane society. My daughter's scars on her face are still there. But, her love of dogs is stronger than ever. That was 11 years ago and it was a English Coon Dog.

[Susan's Freddie98]

Well I can't even begin to comprehend this!!!! Am I reading this correctly - Gilbert HUMANELY euthanized these "mean" dogs???? HOW can beating a dog(s) to death with a hammer be considered HUMANELY???? I'm just so speechless, I don't get it!<IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm4.gif" border=0> This is pretty scary. WHY WHY WHY couldn't the owners take the dogs to the Humane Society, or even turn them in to the Animal Control?

I can't believe they're thinking of getting another dachsie! What if THIS dachsie turns out to be "mean" to?? Oh no problem....they'll just "humanely" hammer it to death too! PLEASE tell me if I'm misunderstanding this!? I'm so shocked that beating to death with a hammer is considered "humanely"? HELLO??? I think that is considered MURDER!! GAWD, I could go on and on about this! Am I ignorant or something? Am I abnormal in NOT understanding this verdict? I could SCREAM! If I came face to face with ANY of these people (Jury and all) I'd probably throw my own s*** right smack in their face!

Susan

[WOTANSMUTTI]

After reading the Wyoming Tradegy Update I am pretty sickened by the verdict.

Where does common sense come into all of this? If a man can beat small dogs to death with a hammer- what might he be able to do to his children if they "misbehave"?

It must have taken some slick lawyer stuff. to get these killers off. Justice in that part of Wyoming isn't much at all ,it seems.

[dutchman]

Here is the latest from Teresa.

Tom

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Subject: Wyoming Dachshunds, Cody Paper
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 12:24:24 EST
From: Tacke12@aol.com
To: Tacke12@aol.com
CC: (NAMES REMOVED BY TOM)

Here's the article about The Dachshunds in Wyoming. I did find an email addy
for this paper, under "About Us" page. I'll be voicing my
opinion........Teresa Shively

http://www.codyenterprise.com/dis

[Wienergal]

Here's the letter I sent to the Cody Enterprise. Reading that story just made me sick to my stomach. I'm ashamed to live in a country with a judicial system that allowed this to happen.

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I am writing to express my outrage at the disgraceful verdict rendered by the jury in the Gilbert Wozney animal cruelty case, at the unconscionable conduct of the judge in the case who let the obscene jury verdict stand, and at the deafening silence from the citizens of Wyoming in response to these events. Citizens of Wyoming should be aware that this case has been followed from the outset by individuals all over the United States, and these sorry results cast your state in a very poor light indeed. Are Wyoming jurors just too stupid to understand that beating an animal to death is not "humane?" Or are Wyoming jurors just not interested in prosecuting cruelty to animals in any situation? Either way, Wyoming loses in the eyes of the rest of the country.

Did the jury really believe that the fact that Wozney "believed" (sure he did!) that hammering a dog's skull into mush was "humane" relieved him of any responsibility in the cruel and painful deaths of these animals? Did the judge in this case bother to inform the jury of what accepted humane methods of euthanasia are? Did ANYONE in this case bother to inform the jury that the fact that a dog's owner has not housetrained it or trained it to behave properly toward strangers is NOT a reason to kill it? It is incomprehensible to me that any person in his or her right mind would construe such actions as "humane." But then, I don't live in Wyoming. Maybe you just have different definitions of "cruelty" and "inhumane" out there. After all, it was in Wyoming that a young gay man was attached to a fence and left to die. Interesting state you all inhabit. I'll be sure I don't pass through at any time--if I make a wrong turn on a Wyoming highway, it seems perfectly likely that some citizens of Wyoming could drag me out of my car, beat my skull in with a hammer, then be acquitted by a judge and jury who decide my death was a humane response to my error.

[dutchman]

Here is the latest from Teresa

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Subject:Cody Wy newspaper update, Dachshund Murders
Date:Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:07:44 EST
From:Tacke12@aol.com
To:Tacke12@aol.com


Hey All,
Got my Second wind......Here's the follow up story from the Cody Paper ...http://www.codyenterprise.com/display/inn_local_news/news4.txt...

........after you read this, go to their opinion page.....they have listed
one of your emails...(Maybe they need more?).......then go to the About Us
page for their email address

Have recieved lots of new emails, offering support and more letters. Am
working on a web page so you can just go there for updates.......Again, sorry
if you are getting this more than once, after the New Year, I'll hopefully
get some time to clean up my list, so be patient with me......Cross Post
PLEASE!!
Hug those fur kids.....Teresa Shively

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The link for the publixhed opinion is http://www.codyenterprise.com/display/inn_opinion/opinion4.txt

Tom