About 20 years ago I bought a house not knowing my neighbors were gang members. The fence was falling apart and they had a pit bull. One evening this pit bull slammed into my sliding glass door trying to get at me and my family. Wow! What an eye opener for the mentality of those dogs. Called the neighbor to come get their dog. Then built a block wall 7 ft high. And yes they had little kids. I can’t imagine what that dog would have done to my kid.
My neighbors have pit bulls. They keep finding a gap in the fence and come into my yard to crap.
From the story:
“I wish he just would have went in the house and would have came and told me instead of retaliating that way,” dog owner Shaylen Ross said.”
Why? He already DID tell you once. You didn’t do anything about it then, what reasonable person could have suspected you would have done something the second time?
Roaming pit bulls should always be killed. This was exactly the right thing to do.
If the dogs’ owner cared so much about them, he would have made sure they stayed in their own yard.
There is a happy medium, by the way: .22 snake shot. When I was a teenager, we had neighbors who kept an Afghan hound and let it run wild in our rural neighborhood. The fourth or fifth time I caught him ransacking our garbage can, I let him have it right in the ass with a .22 snake shot cartridge from about 20 feet away. He yelped all the way home. I am sure he came to no permanent harm, but he never set foot within a hundred yards of our property again.