Boy is this getting thick. So tell me, which do you prefer, .45 or 9 mm for self defence.
A dog is not a human. It is an animal. Domesticated animals can revert back to intinctive agrressive behavior. The dogs in question were feeding on a deer carcas, and this could bring back that whole pack menality thing.
My dad told me never to try to take a dog's food away. Why? It might bite me! hmmmm....
It is a terible thing for your pet whatever to die. To some people, it is like loosing a family member.
But too many pet owners let their pets, dogs and cats, run outdoors unleashed and unconfined. Then they wonder why their pets get hit by cars, or shot, or just up and not come home one day.
Most dogs are big animals, and need lots of room. That does not excuse letting a dog roam freely without supervision. If you won't take it for the exercise it needs, and don't have it confined, then don't get the thing in the first place.
Animals are animals. They do not have rights, they are just what we let them do. If they are allowed to run free they will. And bad things might happen to them.
If the game warden felt threatend, then fine. If he did it out of malice, or not caring, fine too. If the family had kept the dog confined or had it trained to stay in the yard, then just one dog would have been shot, and the whole situation would have been avoided. Which ever way the officer was, it doesn't matter, the fault is 100% with the family that did not fulfill their ownership obligation to their pet.