control your animals, redneck!
Damn.
Keep your dog on a leash. Simple. They don’t ‘somehow’ get off the leash.
Poor Betty. Hope she heals completely.
And finds a responsible owner.
ATTENTION DOG OWNERS:
FYI: No one is obliged to like your dog. You and you alone are in love with your dog. Most people have no way of knowing if your dog wants petted or wants to bight someone.
Strange you never hear of mail carriers shooting dogs.
At the 1:01 minute mark in the linked article video, there’s a picture of the dog’s face that suggests it may be a mastiff x pit bull mix. There’s far too many accounts of pits attacking without barking, warning, while wagging their tail or in one case, walking by a woman and turning its head to just latch onto her thigh (bad injury). Even if it’s not a pit mix, 119 pounds is too much dog to have wandering around loose.
That said, I watched the grainy video and I don’t think the dog was behaving in a threatening manner. I have a friend who’s afraid of big dogs and can’t read dog body language/behavior at all. It is just one more reason to keep these dogs on a leash.
How does someone determine that a dog just wants to be petted when lunging? If a 119lb bull mastiff lunged at me it’s going down and pepper spray most times don’t work on large dogs like that.
At the 1:01 minute mark in the linked article video, there’s a picture of the dog’s face that suggests it may be a mastiff x pit bull mix. There’s far too many accounts of pits attacking without barking, warning, while wagging their tail or in one case, walking by a woman and turning its head to just latch onto her thigh (bad injury). Even if it’s not a pit mix, 119 pounds is too much dog to have wandering around loose.
That said, I watched the grainy video and I don’t think the dog was behaving in a threatening manner. I have a friend who’s afraid of big dogs and can’t read dog body language/behavior at all. It is just one more reason to keep these dogs on a leash. The dog didn’t have a collar on and the owner said “She took an opportunity to go visit the neighbor without my permission.” 119 pound guard dog breed needs a collar, leash, fence....something.
I blame the owner, not the dog or the guard. Dogs should not be approaching strangers without permission, and that was very close. I would not have shot in that situation, but I cannot demand that others be as comfortable near large dogs as I am.
This incident was caused by the owner, not the guard.
I don’t see why the guard shouldn’t sue the owner for forcing him to shoot the dog.
As a dog lover and trainer for many years, I can testify that dogs do not “get out of the leash somehow.”
With a properly fitted buckle collar and leash of appropriate length held properly, there’s no way the dog can get away.
Very Un-PC for San Francisco.