[RedBloodedAmerican]

Maybe, but that doesn't give someone the right to shoot it necessarily. There may also be laws against discharging a weapon in city limits. Heck, here you can't even fire a slingshot legally.

So someone may have broken a law by shooting the animal. Are there leash laws there? I dunno.

[gcruse]

There may also be laws against discharging a weapon in city limits

A BB gun????   I never knew your wimp quotient was that high.   I had a neighbor who let his dog run free.  When I saw the dog lifting his leg on my garage pillor, I sent him a little BB action in the belly.  Don't recall him coming around any more, much.