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发表于 2009-12-17 21:30:29
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Vt. court eyes value of love of man's best friend
佛蒙特州看重人类的最好“朋友”
MONTPELIER, Vt. – Vermont's highest court is being asked to decide what a dog's love is worth.
The state Supreme Court on Thursday was to hear a case that began in July 2003, when Denis and Sarah Scheele, who were visiting relatives, let their mixed-breed dog wander into Lewis Dustin's yard and he fatally shot it.
Now the Scheeles are asking the court to carve out a new legal doctrine that a dog's owners can sue for emotional distress and loss of companionship, just like parents can when they lose children.
Dustin's lawyer, David Blythe, said Dustin never intended to kill the Scheeles' dog, Shadow, and "has always regretted that it happened." He said Dustin fired an air pellet rifle at the dog in hopes of scaring it off the lawn of his home in Northfield, a community of about 6,000 residents just south of Montpelier in the heart of the state's Green Mountains.
The shot Dustin fired penetrated the dog's chest and severed an aorta, and the dog died on the way to a veterinarian's office.
The Scheeles are particularly devoted pet owners. They feed their dogs human food, brush the dogs' teeth and dress them in raincoats when it's wet outside.
On a Web site devoted to Shadow's memory, they wrote, "Every day without you running and playing and cuddling with us is more difficult than the day before. The loss of your presence in our every moment is unbelievably painful. Not a moment passes that you are not in our thoughts, our hearts and our prayers."
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在美国佛蒙特州蒙的首府彼利埃，佛蒙特州高级法院被要求证明一只狗的重要性。
在星期四的时候，州最高法院听审一宗始于2003年七月的案件。因当事人丹尼斯●撤尔和沙拉●撤尔要拜访亲戚，他们养的混种犬游荡于刘易斯●荡斯丁的院子，最后导致狗受到致命的枪击。
目前，撤尔夫妇正要求法院开拓一条新的条例，让狗主可以索赔情感压抑跟丧失伴侣的损失，就像父母丧失了自己的孩子一样。
刘易斯●荡斯丁的代表律师——大卫●拜尔宣称荡斯丁从没有意图杀死撤尔的狗，现在（刘易斯)已经造成阴影，并“已经为发生的事深感惬意”。他表示荡斯丁当时对狗开枪，只想吓跑它，让他离开荡斯丁在北郡的草坪。那是一个大约有6000居民的社区，位于州的绿山中心蒙彼利埃市的南面。
荡斯丁的子弹穿透狗的胸膛，打中了大动脉。狗就在送往兽医的途中死去。
撤尔夫妇是一对十分深爱宠物的养主，他们用人类吃的食物喂养狗，帮它刷牙，遇到外面下雨就帮狗穿上雨衣。
在一篇关于撤尔逸事的网站上，他们写到：“一想到每天都不能再跟你跑步、玩耍、拥抱，我们就越来越难过。在失去你的每一刻，我们都感到十分痛苦。时间一秒一秒的很难过去，因为你已经消失在我们的脑海里，消失在我们的心里，跟我们的祈祷里。”
Useful Expression
- adoctrine [‘dCktrin] n.
教条, 学说
n.大动脉
v.拥抱
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