[Vigilanteman]

My Dad was a vet. Wonderful man who loved animals, but he wouldn't even waste a drug on this type of dog. He would take it out back and shoot it in the head. A slug from a .38 is a lot cheaper than the drug and cleanup.

(Yes, dogs $#*+ all over the place when they are put down with common injection drugs and a .38 to the head is no more painful.)

Plus, he hated this kind of work because most people should be able to do it themselves. He'd make an exception only for little old ladies who were putting down a beloved pet which was terminally ill and suffering.

Yes, he loved children more.

[Norski]

“Yes, he loved children more.”

Your point is so incredibly important here.

This is what I keep trying to keep in mind as I post these items, because it’s at the core of the subject. These dogs have been bred from the beginning to fight in pits, to the death, as illegal, barbaric “entertainment”, for huge sums of money. They are horribly treated in these situations, and their excess dogs are dumped on well-meaning but softheaded people who believe that they can be “rehabilitated” and placed as household pets. They cannot.

I am asking for possible solutions to this huge and growing problem.

[familyop]

"My Dad was a vet. Wonderful man who loved animals, but he wouldn't even waste a drug on this type of dog. He would take it out back and shoot it in the head. A slug from a .38 is a lot cheaper than the drug and cleanup."

Good man. All police should learn just enough about animal anatomy to do the same for anyone else. Residents should be able to do it, too, but that might require a rural setting without laws against firearms discharges in many cases.

From the front of the animal, just about a half inch above and between the eyes, aiming downward a little toward the target (perpendicular enough and not too oblique). From the side of the dog, the midpoint between the eye and the ear.

A .22LR will do it just fine if fired properly. I stunned cattle and other livestock for slaughter that way as a young man.