If we’re going to play pretend that we can shoot dogs in the city, why not have a bounty on any dog that’s running around loose?
My evening walks are complicated by 3 loose pit bulls, a german shepherd, a rottweiler, a red husky, a yellow lab, an american eskimo-type dog, a miniature pinscher, 2 rottweiler mixes and inumerable small, fierce chihuahuas, none of whom are likely to be vaccinated.
I have to defend myself and my neutered, vaccinated, well cared for, and much loved pit mix from a combination of these dogs with nothing more than a maglite.
Instead of fantasize about killing dogs that just look mean, why not deal with the ones that are?
My brother has a chihuahua / rat terrier mix that my 17 yo son is terrified of. He won’t go into his home unless the dog is secured somewhere. This little beast has attacked/bitten children before. He will literally spring forth from the sofa and latch onto you. And people call my dog dangerous?
“If we’re going to play pretend that we can shoot dogs in the city, why not have a bounty on any dog that’s running around loose?”
And don’t forget those annoying cats that are making noise all night, as well. That causes loss of sleep which can be dangerous, after all.
As far as ACO’s being able to tell a pit from other breeds?I’ve dealt with a bunch of them, being in dog rescue, and a large proportion couldn’t tell a Viszla from a Weimaraner, a Weim from a pit, etc. It doesn’t take a great deal of training to become an ACO.
Anyone that expended a bullet towards one of my dogs is more than likely to get several in return, post-paid. And I don’t even have pits. You let any dumb yay-hoo start popping rounds off at whatever dogs he deludedly thinks is a pit, you’re going to have major problems. Put a bounty on it, and it becomes worse. Lawsuits will NOT help that problem, as there are very low limits on what you can collect for the death of a family pet. The only way a law allowing knuckleheads to shoot pits would work would be one that allows owners of non-pits to beat the living daylights out of anyone who wrongly shoots a non-pit, up to and including causing the slow, painful death of the shooter for doing so. That way, if some clown shoots, say, one of the purebred Weims I had or hope to have, and I have the pedigree for the dog (chipped or tattooed like I’ve had done), having mistaken it for a pit, as some folks have done, I get to shackle his sorry backside to a post and have at him with an ASP baton or similar, till *I* am through. That would take quite some time.
Better be sure of your target, there, pal.