Cuz70
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Regardless of how you handle the situation don't wait till one of your kids get hurt before you do something about this issue.
Canvassing? Really!I’m out on travel and a couple of pit bulls were canvassing our property and back porch. I have small children and refuse to risk anything with them so I would have shot the dogs if I had been home but that’s not my wife’s style.
I ride a bike every morning around my neighborhood and I have picked out a bad dog free route. However I was talking to a county deputy and ask him what I should do if I got attacked by a dog. He said " as long as you are on the road and not on private property, Shoot it. We will stand on your side ". Nice to know but I still worry about the owner of that dog and what legal action they might take.A cyclist of my acquaintance got bitten when he got tangled up in his bike and could not access spray or pistol. He was able to karate the mutt to avoid serious injury. He has changed his route.
There was a news item a while back about the stroller who carved an aggressive dog off of himself with a stout pocket knife.
Be aware that if you shoot a mean dog, you might well have to shoot a mean dog owner. So take all other measures first... but don't let your children get bitten no matter what it takes.
Having been forced to kill a dog before I would say, exhaust other options first if nothing else do what you need to.
I don't think my wife/kids should be pinned inside the house because some animal is roaming our property.
It happens, a friends daughter let her (tiny) dog out to go to the bathroom one morning and watched it get snatched by a coyote.
Depending on where you live there could be lots of predators that you won’t see as much as the less sneaky stray dog.
I would STRONGLY advise against shooting an animal with an airgun as a deterrent unless you are willing to shoot yourself with the same airgun. Because the ammunition has a very small frontal area, penetration can be surprising even with a relatively weak airgun.A accurate medium power Air Rifle with a shot to their rear end will usually keep an annoying animal away without permanent harm...
I don’t like pepper spray. I went to spray it once and the wind blew it back in my face!
dogs (which believe or not are much like a young kid) are very smart and figure out how to get out of pens or clear fences when their owners are not around to watch them.
What a lowlife.We have numerous stray dogs in this area: Most were discarded by their owners. i've been attacked twice while hunting. The dogs were a huge Samoyed and a pit bull: i killed both. Neither dog was collared. However, both those dogs had worn collars in the past: Folks simply threw them away.
Some one in this county threw away three dogs locked in their cages:
https://www.kswo.com/2018/10/08/dogs-found-dead-cages-along-county-road/
Do you have animal shelters there where people could take a pet they can no longer care for?
It is on what the "verbiage" means that would be considered by others in determining whether you maintain your clean record.Canvassing, roaming whatever. Don't get bent around the axle on verbiage.
Good. Could work for or against you.I have the video
As in so many things in law, that's not all that matters.....and I'm not comfortable with their behavior. That's enough for me.
Yep.Just to touch on a point mentioned earlier, know your local laws.
We have that here. News articles report someone being charged about every three or four weeks.We just had a law passed in VA that makes animal cruelty a felony.