This Missouri lawmaker did not in fact read Old Yeller, or he would know that the dog saved his family from a rabid wolf and was bitten. The boy was forced to shoot the dog because he was rabid, not because he killed a chicken.
Ben, Old Yeller was a novel before it was a movie.
Footage from 1955 shows an Iranian man falling ill with rabies after being bitten by a wolf. Rabies is almost 100% fatal once clinical symptoms set in. There are only 29 reported cases of rabies survivors in history.
Ep. 58 How did a not very bright thug like Nancy Pelosi get rich in the stock market? Because the system is rigged. Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street, explains.