Shooting a Dog on your property?

[tulsamal]

To put salt in the wounds, so to speak, the county took the dog and kept it in quarantine and when it was determined he didn't have rabies or other diseases they released the dog back to the owner and no citation was ever issued.

I complain about lawyers all the time and I think people in the US are FAR to ready to sue everybody over nothing BUT I would have gone after those people with the nastiest lawyer I could find! They were right there and didn't even risk a bite by trying to help. Their insurance company would have been writing me a hefty check and covering all my medical expenses for sure!

Gregg

 

[Sam Adams]

Joab and Standing Wolf

SW:

In my yard, it'd be a dead dog P.D.Q. If you've ever seen scars from dog bites, you'll know why.

J:

I've seen those scars Standing Wolf mentioned. They're on my right butt cheek.

Does this mean that Standing Wolf is familiar with how Joab's right butt cheek looks? This thought is more alarming than the one involving a dog sinking his teeth into your butt cheek (right or left).

More seriously, if some large dog that I've been told bites comes onto my property and comes at me in a threatening manner, there will shortly thereafter be a dead dog. If my wife or, especially, my little kids are within easy biting distance, this goes double. The only question will be if I do it with a gun (i.e. if I have it on me), or whether I have to stomp, kick, strangle, beat with a shovel or otherwise do it by less quick means.

People are more important than dogs, and I offer no apologies for that attitude, most especially when it comes to MY family and someone else's dog that they know to be a biter. F'em - both the dog and the people.

 

[joab]

OK let me clarify

I have seen the type of scars Standing Wolf mentioned.

To my knowledge he has never seen my butt cheek, left or right.

Also to clarify.
If a dog that I have been forewarned by the owner has an aggressive nature comes intomy yard or near me or mine--

I will try to give it a wide birth especially if it is not a common occurance.

If this is not possible I will defend me and mine with whatever I deem appropriate at the time. Let the lawyers sort it out later


My comments were directed at those that assume that just because you have an aggressive or defensive dog that you are an irresponsible jerk

I tell people that my dog bites just to keep people I don't know away from my house.
And I still have people reaching over my fence to pet him or just walking into my fenced in area to sell me water softenners

 

[Archie]

Pepper spray?

Just a thought, non-lethal and pretty effective against dogs.

On the other hand, I am almost always armed with a handgun of some type; I don't always carry pepper spray.

Bottom line: I don't want to be dog bit, and I'm not going to allow it to happen to m'lady wife or my manly son. End of that discussion.

 

[Yooper]

The owner is aware of a potentially dangerous animal, he's already informed the neighbors that the dog bites. The neighbor can't seem to keep the dog confined, the dog continually escapes a chain-linked fence, the existence of which may imply something about the neighbor's concern about the dog's potential. In my opinion, the dog made his last mistake if he threatens me or a member of my family. Think of a child or grandchild in the yard instead of yourself and replay the scenario!

I had this very same problem a couple of years back, a neighbor had a 100+ pound German Shepard who had been trained for police work of some kind, the neighbor was a prison guard. The dog was constantly loose and harrassing the neighbors and other dogs in the neighborhood, often getting into fights with the dogs. He would run up barking and growling if he found someone going to and from their car. My daughter and grandson were living with us and on one occasion, the dog harrassed the two of them. The police were called and I told them that if the dog ever showed up in the yard again I would see to it that it was the last time it happened. The responding officer said that I would be justified in killing the animal.

Each locale has its own laws, one of which is usually some sort of "leash law" outlining what a dog owner must do to confine his dog.

 

[artherd]

Forget the dog, in California, if a reasonable person would belive he was in fear for his life, OR IN FEAR OF GREAT BODILY HARM from the offender, he could shoot the dog's owner, much less the dog.