If you can’t afford a home with a yard contained by a fence or are too lazy to walk your own large, aggressive dogs on a leash, you get what’s coming to you.
>>More than one dog is a “pack”. Dogs in a pack behave much differently than individual dogs.
Very good point! I think it must be something to do with the hunting instinct - none of them wants to be last at the table.
The dogs were coming to lick him
Over exuberant killing
The story says he takes this 5 mile walk along the same route every day. He lives a few blocks away.
It would be hard to convince me that he has not encountered these same two dogs before. This day he took his pistol with him, and shot one of them.
I feel the shooting was intentional.
Now we do not know the circumstances.
1. Was he bitten before?
2. Did he ask the man who owns th dogs to keep them penned?
3. Why couldn’t he change his daily route so as to not meet these dogs?
4. Did the dog owner deliberately turn the dogs loose on this man?
“... fired one shot killing one of the dogs...”
Somebody has been spending time at the range.
If police departments were like college football teams, this man would be widely recruited.
I find boxers to be as affectionate as pit bulls. If you
don’t run usually your all right. As long as they don’t
sense any fear and feel any threat then once you pet them, your pals. Great dogs.
Charging dogs?!?!!?
What kind of credit card were they using?
The legal bottom line is that:
1) Dogs are animals. They do not have civil rights.
2) Dogs are property. Despite the emotional attachment their owners may assign to them, and the invariable, “If you hurt my dog I will kill you!”, the law does not see it that way.
If a dog menaces a person, “in their opinion”, and they kill that dog, they are not even guilty of animal cruelty, unless the means they used was intended to cause suffering, not just kill. Likewise, they are generally not even subject to civil liability.
In many cities across the US, dogs are not permitted to wander unleashed. If they are unleashed, and off your property, they may be killed at will.
Any unlicensed, unleashed dog off your property may be killed at any time, by a citizen, the police, or animal control.
Was he packin' heat for humanoids or animals on his daily runs?....I report, you decide.
Leni
I love dogs and am a responsible dog owner, but I detest irresponsible dogs/owners who let their charges run free to threaten people and do damage to personal property.
Good for Frank and good for the local authorities for recognizing that Frank had the right to defend himself. Tough toenails for the dog owner in this case. This case rings a bell with me because I have been in the same situation as Frank, but I wasn’t armed at the time, but since, I have been carrying my Baretta 92F.
Also, at a public forum in my home county, the county sheriff had the gall, when asked a question about nuisance animals/pets attacking citizens, to say that such a response as Frank’s would be subject to criminal prosecution—that’s when this alleged Republican sheriff in TX lost my vote. The good sheriff won re-election, but without my vote, and that’s okay.
Democrat = Good Shoot
Republican = Crazed Dog Killer
Nothing in the article suggests that the dogs were aggressive.
On the other hand many people are fearful of dogs, and two large dogs running at someone who is uncomfortable with dogs may trigger a defensive reaction.
If an owner cares about their dogs they should leash, fence, or supervise them.
Being confronted close-up by an aggressive dog is a very exciting experience.
Wild-eyed, snapping and growling, not backing away, and moving with lightning agility, a savage dog will get your heart rate up in seconds.
The last time it happened to me, I was wishing I had my .38 Special.
In other words yes the dogs had charged him but they stopped when they got close to him. That's when he shot him, I'll bet, when they had stopped short of him as most dogs do.
Can you imagine kids playing outside as some guy reaches in his pack, pulls a gun out and then shoots at a moving dog??? Would you want such a person walking through your neighborhood??
These dogs or others in the neighborhood had probably charged him before interrupting his sacred walk but never injuring him. So he just wanted to teach them and their owner a lesson.
He will probably be personna non-grata now as people in the neighborhood when they see him coming will rush to bring their children and dogs inside for fear that he will reach into his fanny pack again if a dog comes up to him.
If he is a cop, we hate him.
If he's just a gun owner, we love him.
Which is it?
had a neighbor that used to let his three dogs loose late at night. They were large and kind of scary, especially when they emerged out of the darkness all at once. Terrified my daughter one night in our front yard. The dogs mysteriously disappeared shortly after that.
Was it an off-duty cop?
The horror....
The only thing pussyarsed freepers are more daft about than guard breed dogs is anthing to do with race
No wonder u guys fantasize about silly kittens strapped
And purse dogs