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Swampscott dog trainer charged with killing puppies whose bodies didn't meet his exacting standards
By adamg on Tue, 07/28/2015 - 5:26pm
Jason Gentry, 35, who ran a dog-training facility in Lynn, had bail set at $1,000 today on charges he hanged two Pinscher puppies, then disposed of their bodies behind a Revere gas station last fall, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports, adding the formal charges are malicious killing of an animal and animal cruelty.
A Long Beach, NY man, Dominick Donovan, was arrested in New York and will be arraigned later as well, the DA's office says.
According to the DA's office:
A necropsy performed by the Animal Rescue League of Boston determined that the dogs - one female and one male - were both approximately 20 weeks old and had been in good bodily condition when they were killed.
The dogs were determined to be Donovan Pinschers - a breed created by Donovan.
During the course of their investigation, Revere Police detectives learned that at the time of their deaths, both dogs had been in Gentry’s care at the training facility he operated, Alpha Canine Performance of Lynn. Donovan arrived at the location in November to transport the animals back to New York. In a post-Miranda interview with police, Gentry made statements indicating that on Nov. 2, the dogs were hung at the facility until they stopped breathing because each failed to meet the standards for the breed, prosecutors said.
Innocent, etc.
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good thing for him...
...no one is judging mr. gentry on meeting "the standards for the breed"
gentry thinks he is a real
gentry thinks he is a real tough guy. He should be punished. And for his attorney fees there being paid by Giovannis roast beef & pizza his families franchise
He should know all about failing to meet standards
Clearly he has failed to meet the standard of being human.
Any chance we could have him deported to North Korea? I can imagine there are quite a few dogs over there used in criminal proceedings that would handle him with lots of TLC...
unless...
...you are a vegetarian...relax.
I thought this was normal
... not for trainers but for commercial breeders specializing in purebreds with documented pedigrees. I thought it was pretty common for commercial breeders to kill the puppies who were not up to "breed standards".
Had a deaf dalmatian as a kid and we heard tons of stories about the purebred dalmatian community and the nasty stuff they did when they encountered a common genetic problem like deafness.
Ugh.
Why not just let it be adopted without papers?
People who want the expensive one will still buy the expensive one.
Maybe in the past
But now you can easily neuter or spay and sell as a pet dog. Breeders would then keep the breeding stock and show them. Or they make deals with the people they sell the acceptable animals to to not spay or neuter so that future breeding can occur.
Then again, what I've been finding online (because it's all true, right?) is that the breed is not necessarily good as a pet. (http://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/donovan-pinscher-8177.html) and (http://molosserdogs.com/m/articles/view/2719-donovan-pinscher)
It appears there are so many breeds mixed in, I imagine it's hard to create a 'standard' without too much inbreeding.
Sadly
Could the "issue" be how he did it and disposed of them? Or that he's not an actual breeder? Either way, it's sad and disgusting. It should be pretty simple for all breeders: Have a dog that doesn't meet "standards?" Find a nice family to give it to that will love it the same.
"You've got no neck!"
I dimly recall from Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings. Just try choking him!
Its a business
And he had a substandard product and knew it. He needs to find a better way to euthanize them and dispose of them, other than that i see no issue.
As if I needed another reminder
of the moral superiority of animals.
Yeah,
Aside from the fact morality is a human construct, you clearly have never seen a cat hunt before if youre saying that.
Morality is a human construct
Yet human beings are not cats. We have a moral constructs because we have free will which includes the ability to choose cruelty or mercy. Breeding animals purely for the sake of profitting from the desire for a prestige object (a pure bred dog) and then suffocating the undesirable offspring by suffocating is cruel. There is plenty of cruelty where animals are concerned. Farm factories where livestock are forced to live in the filth created by thousands of other animals penned in tiny areas. Subjecting them to slow painful deaths where they are hung and bled while alive. Calfs forced to say in tiny pens for their limited lives without any movement so that their meat is tender.
Humans for the most part are omnivores. But we are capable of choosing merciful forms of quick deaths for livestock instead of subjecting them to what amounts to slow torture.
Humans can be moral and so can choose to use intelligence and prudence in the creation of pets that may result in "undesirable" results which the breeder would want to suffocate instead of just finding a home for the unwanted results.
It's not a black and white discussion; it's not just good or bad. But the complexities of our moral human constructs - at least in this nation and this Commonwealth - are pretty clear in how we treat pets. Do not be cruel.
That said I know that on the romanticized farms of yore that excess kitens would be drowned. But then in the romanticized towns and cities of yore people were hung often just on the basis of accusation. So maybe in our human moral constructs we have matured enough to choose to be merciful in all our dealings with all forms of life and apply appropriate punishment to those who just see dollar signs where dogs or any other life is concerned (human included).
If dogs are a commodity
Then they are disposed of when defective.
If you have bought a purebred dog, you have sponsored killing defective pups that couldn't be sold.
Shame on him for showing us how the sausage is made in too graphic a fashion.
Disgusting in every way.
Not least because he's backyard breeding a bunch of aggressive, very strong breeds with a huge capacity to harm people and other dogs. Read the description for his so-called breed which is basically a screwed-up mutt of highly aggressive protection dogs that are only occasionally known to attack their owners...exactly what we need more of in the world, amirite? This guy should not be allowed near animals.
Way to go, Sally!
He sure shouldn't!
Adopt!
This is why we need to stop supporting individuals like this and start adopting the millions of homeless pets in this country. My family adopted a purebred dog (with papers!) who was used for breeding and then left to starve when she was no longer of use. Adopt, don't shop!
Rescue Groups
Agreed. We adopted our first Basenji through a breed specific rescue group that saved him from becoming indiscriminate breeding stock (we were told he was on his way to a Mennonite farm, who knows how true that is). Our 2nd Basenji was a rehoming from a family where not all family members wanted the dog. We didn't have papers, but that didn't matter to us. It was fun going to events and listening to breeders look at our first and see certain traits from known lines, though.
We're talking about animals, right?
The Commonwealth issues licenses for killing deer, turkeys, bears, etc, as well as all kinds of sealife. You can go to your local hardware store and buy traps that will viciously kill rodents. Yet if you kill 2 dogs, dogs that are your own property, that's a crime?
Apples and Oranges in your Lunchbox?
Dogs are considered domesticated animals that we humans love to keep and love as pets and, as such, if they are found abused, tortured, or just killed for the heck of it, the action will fall under the category of cruelty to animals, which is a punishable crime.
BTW: When is the last time you hugged a fish?
Perhaps
It is in how the dogs were killed? And the necessity for the killings.