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If it is farm and ranch country then these people should know better than to let a pack of dogs...even Golden Retrievers...run loose. When we lived in California our ranch there was about five miles outside of Lincoln and a few years back we started having dog problems from city people moving out to the country and then letting their dogs out for a run.

All dogs, from chihuahuas to Rottweilers, find it to be great fun to chase cattle. What isn’t fun is finding a pack of dogs chasing your prize bull and causing him to break a leg.

After that whenever we saw dogs on the ranch the dogs got treated to hollow points. California law explicitly allows this.

Now we’re in another state and we still get the occasional dog on the property chasing the cattle and the response is the same. What is really terrible in my opinion is letting your dog loose in an area where there’s bears, coyotes, and wolves that will hunt down and eat dogs alive.

In this case the corpse of the dog was on the person’s property, but that does not tell the whole story. Had it been off the property causing problems? If it was out loose and unsupervised then this is a real possibility. Given that this took place in Maryland, which isn’t exactly friendly to country people or gun owners, I can appreciate someone just shooting a problem dog and being done with it.

The best advice I have for this person is to not let their dogs out loose and unsupervised. That, or make sure their fence line is tall enough and secure enough to keep the dogs on their own property and then I bet there won’t be any more problems with the neighbors shooting the dogs.

According to Zabasearch (public domain information) Lynette Kaufmann lives at 2912 Station Road in Middletown. Looking at the place on Google Earth I’m not seeing any fence at all and I’m also seeing a lot of neighboring homes right nearby.

Lynette is not a responsible dog owner if she’s letting a pack of dogs go wandering around her neighborhood.

The article states that the couple owns 50 acres and it sounded like the dog was shot on their own property. While I agree that dogs can wreak havoc on other folks livestock etc... shooting a dog on your own property is over the line. If a neighbor had done this on their property... fine. Perhaps there is more to the story like these dogs going after livestock or on other folk’s property but it may just be as likely as someone doing it for kicks.

After that whenever we saw dogs on the ranch the dogs got treated to hollow points. California law explicitly allows this.

I see we share similar experiences.

We have dogs as did many fellow farmers but luckily, none have ever gone "rogue" and needed, as you say, "the treatment".

It's usually boiled down to City people vs. County born people. We live near Ft Campbell and have lots of transients coming and going. We could always tell the difference by the way they allowed their animals to roam free in the "great wild"

Had one couple who claimed they didn't know anyone "owned" the land despite it was obviously fenced, plowed and planted with crops and had Black Angus cattle.

Had to pump four .22 hollow point rounds into their St. Benard's head after running our cows with heifers(one with a bleeding wound) running into our barbed wire fence.

What isn’t fun is finding a pack of dogs chasing your prize bull and causing him to break a leg.

Horses, too. We've had city folk move-ins who thought that once they moved out into the countryside, they could owhatever they wanted and to hell with the locals. I've put down two dogs who were allowed to run after the owners got two warnings. Wouldn't leave the horses alone. Shot 'em, bagged 'em and disposed of 'em. Never said a word to the owners.

All it would have taken was a little bit of consideration for others in the area. But no...