Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Goat Island incident Date:   7/24/2018 10:38:16 AM

I would assume so based on the story on some petition site.  Letting your dog swim in the water around a lot of boat traffic is irresponsible.  Letting your dog chase a goat into the water is irresponsible.  Letting your dog swim so long that it becomes exhausted is irresponsible. But if anyone thinks a dog will exhaust themselves in the water unless they are chasing something doesn't understand dogs.  And anyone who thinks it is just an unlucky coincidence that the goat and the dog were in the water and near each other is also kidding themselves.  Goats do not like water and don't swim unless they are desperate and are running from a predator.  They don't even like rain. 

I can tell you my dog would chase those goats until he was exhausted.  I would never take him to Goat Island and would never let him swim around a bunch of boats.  I am 100% convinced the owners are not telling the whole story.  But again, I would never intentionally harm a dog and I would have grabbed it out of the water as well and tell the owner what I think about them when I gave them their dog.  It's not the dog's fault they have an irresponsible owner but there's more to this story and if the boat driver gets charged the truth will come out.