Huh?
Day before yesterday as I pulled into my driveway where I live in rural Alaska there was 3 dogs tearing up bags of garbage in my burn pit, I have 4 kids ages 2-14, I have at least 5 cats of which I seem to lose at least that amount every year from dog attacks and these dogs belong to my neighbors, they think just because they live away from town and in Alaska they can let their dogs run at large, for the last 12 years I have put down quite a few that harass me on my property which is 8 acres and of the times when my neighbors hear the particular firearm I use they get all in a uproar and call me a dangerous lunatic. So anyway one of the three dogs come trotting over to my truck as I am getting out, its a pit/shepard mix, no collar and I do not recognize it, so I pull out my carry piece thats always in the truck a 10mm Glock and one round in the chest at less than 8 feet its down, huge blood pool in the snow a humane heart shot. I dispose of the animal at Animal Control because I can’t bury it the ground is still frozen. The new neighbor that just moved in recently had just gotten this dog and he is royally ticked off, his fat heifer girlfriend actually attacks my wife after work by throwing hot coffee on her at the nearby bar where she stops off at after work, plus at least three of these neighbors call my work harassing my employer. The Alaska State Troopers say I did nothing wrong and the neighbors are abusing the ordnance of the “running at large” of the borough.
This is all currently ongoing and they are digging a deeper pit every time they say or act, I’m hoping this goes to court, I said I would make amends but no they keep pushing.
So instead of declaring WW3 on all canines with my huge armory which I can say covers taking down big game plus several semi-auto rifles and various handguns I am approaching this on a different track, plus this should be fun too. I am going out today and buy myself a decent paintgun outfit that has a high rate of fire and accurate out to 100’ and a lot of markers, since I cannot cause grievous injury and I cannot find out who the owners are of these other dogs maybe at least I can mark them with bright paint so the owners gets the hint.
I have been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.
I am curious - the article is not written well - and I cannot tell if her 12 year-old lab jumped the fence, or the pit bull jumped the fence...