In our small rural neighborhood in the southeast, a woman was attacked and nearly killed by 5 dogs. A Mexican man stopped and got the dogs off her and took her to the hospital. He said the dogs were clearly trying to kill her. Turns out these dogs were just your average family pets. They were all rounded up and euthanized.
The owners of mean dogs ought to be sued until it hurts them. Hit these people in the pocketbook hard, then maybe they'll do something about their vicious mutts.
My dog story. My brother still lives in Bama...in a town of less than 250 folks. Some folks moved into a trailer near his house and had two big dogs who were fairly aggressive. My brother’s neighbor had a small dog which normally sat around the carport. The two big dogs came up and cornered the small dog in a shed...when the neighbor came out with a pistol and shot the one dog in the shed dead. The other left and disappeared. His dog was in bad shape but survived.
So the guy shows up at the trailer and lets them that something attacked his dog (never admitting that he’d shot the one dog). The kids and the woman totally denied it was their dogs...so he asked where they were...there was only one in the trailer with them. Then he walked away. By nightfall....about thirty neighbors knew the story. Each one had a gun by the door and were ready to shoot the second remaining dog if it appeared. The family kept that dog locked in the trailer for months and he only got outdoor time if on a leash.
Still today...two years have passed and they would still shoot the dog if they saw it in public. Mind you....you couldn’t accomplish something like this in most states and this is in the south.