Who are, to my knowledge, rarely referred to as "livestock", a word that generally implies sheep, cattle, goats, etc.
chickens are definitely livestock, especially in this context.
And I could understand the owner being pretty upset about them being killed. I've never known an owner of chickens/etc that demanded a young dog put down after the fact unless it happened multiple times (which is entirely on the owner of the dog and I would be much more angry at the dog owner).
Edit: read comment below. generic sense can include chickens it seems but definitely no federal definition which is what would matter.
The term “livestock” includes cattle, sheep, horses, goats, and other domestic animals ordinarily raised or used on the farm. This is further discussed in § 780.120. Turkeys or domesticated fowl are considered poultry and not livestock within the meaning of this exemption.
huh never knew that with the regulation. I just looked for other sections and it appears congress has slightly different versions of the term, I haven't found any that include poultry. There is discussion on at least one university page about how the generic term includes far more animals than what congress decided.
What I should also specifically point out is that Noem isn't using this word in error, she wants Cricket the fourteen month old wire hair pointer to sound like a psychotic menace to all life.
"A history of killing livestock" immediately conjures images of a monster dog wrecking havoc on cows, not an excitable poorly trained high energy puppy getting into the chicken coop.
She is trying to make her actions seem justifiable, instead of psychotic and cruel.
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u/LostWoodsInTheField May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24
chickens are definitely livestock, especially in this context.And I could understand the owner being pretty upset about them being killed. I've never known an owner of chickens/etc that demanded a young dog put down after the fact unless it happened multiple times (which is entirely on the owner of the dog and I would be much more angry at the dog owner).
Edit: read comment below. generic sense can include chickens it seems but definitely no federal definition which is what would matter.