[Wonder Warthog]

"Those little shotshells wouldn't even penetrate the skin of a dog. Fire one at a cardboard box sometime. The pattern is pitiful, and the penetration is negligible. If the situation is so bad that a firearm is required, it had better be up to the task.

Which is the point--just being "stung" and faced with the sound of the firearms report is sometimes sufficient to deter a dog attack. If it isn't, the follow-on shots will terminate it. The combined loading gives you options.

"A .25 auto with shotshells wouldn't even kill a snake! Well, maybe if you shoved it in the snake's mouth and pulled the trigger...

Well, having killed a few snakes with such shotshells in .22 caliber, I can definitively say that you are wrong.

[SLB]

I was at Walgreen's on Thanksgiving getting a prescription refilled and noticed the 30 some year old man in front of me getting two bottles of liquid amoxicillian. I made a comment about a child and an infection and he told me his son was bit by the neighbors dog. A trip to the ER and 15 stitches, a tetanus shot and the antibiotic followed. He said he saw the incident and the dog simply attacked unprovoked. He called 911 and before the sheriff deputy, he lives in the county - not city, arrived he had shot and killed the dog. The deputy told the dog owner he would be filling a report with the Commonwealth Attorney and it would be up to him if he was cited for the incident.

The dad said he was going to an attorney today and wanted to sue the owner for everything he had - can't say as I don't blame him.