What was he using, a paintball gun??? Methinks he needs a bigger gun!
I recall a friend telling me about a pit bull attack. The dog grabbed a child by the throat and wouldn’t let her go; it braced to resist rescuers and was not thrashing so it may have decided that others could not have his ‘prey’. The adults frantically tried prying open its jaws, spraying it with a lawn hose, and when that didn’t work taunting it (slapping, pinching) to get the dog to go after someone else (an adult) in order to save the child’s life as she couldn’t breath. In desperation, someone got a tire iron and started hitting the dog but, seriously, the dog braced, growing and would not let go. So I am only a little surprised that shooting the dog didn’t work. It seems that pit bulls will endure extreme pain to hold their prey. I think that is partly why pit bulls are extreme aggressors to deal with if they attack. While other dogs may attack a person, they typically don’t hold on to their human prey in the face of extreme pain.
They cornered the dog in a 10’wood fenced yard - that made it so mad that it repeatedly charged and rammed its full body weight against a plank in the fence, apparently trying to weaken and break it. Enraged, he rammed the fence in one location repeatedly many times with great concentration while (snarling and growling at max volume) - the people braced the plank, which had begun to bow, on the other side with their bodies while waiting anxiously for animal control/police to arrive.
Pit bull owners (friends of mine) have told me stories about how their dog can defeat kennel designs (dig, chew, destroy) and get out of their enclosures that I’ve not heard of anywhere else for other dog breeds. I recall chet99 posted a thread about a pair of pit bulls that, unprovoked, crashed through a screen door to attack a toddler playing on the living room floor. I’ve seen dogs try to crash through screen doors out of fear (wanting to hide in the house) or over excitement (scooby snack)but I haven’t seen them succeed in actually breaking through a door, especially not while cooperating (two dogs) to attack a human in a house. So you have an animal that can get out of their cages creatively, attack people in houses behind closed doors, and endure extreme pain to continue their attack. I know that other breeds bite and attack but they don’t exhibit the same combination of escaping enclosures, aggression, and capacity/persistence for combat that pit bulls do. That’s why I support those who say that pit bull owners should be required to have an exotic animal license. That would mean demonstrating capacity to handle the animal and would mean maintaining enclosures that meet exotic animal standards because ‘he got out’ is not sufficient excuse to exonerate pit bull owners whose animals run free in the neighborhood; their escape prowess and capacity for combat is known. Any other pet demonstrating this combination of features should likewise require an exotic animal license.
PS: Someone attacked and held by a cougar directed rescuers NOT to shoot the animal from a distance but to walk up to the animal, place the barrel opening on the animal’s spine, and fire. That worked.