I do not get upset about people shooting animals that are attacking them and other people.
That is not “fair chase” or euthanasia. It is survival.
While we do not know all the circumstances, It could well have been prudent not to unleash more rounds in a residential neighborhood.
Animals shot in the chest with a .22 usually die in a minute or so. My father told me that a deer shot through the lungs with a .22 acted the same as a deer shot through the lungs with a 30-06. They ran a hundred yards, lay down and died.
“We live in a 70+ community 10 miles from a small town in Nevada.”
Obviously not metropolitan.
*One* good shot in the head is preferable to a body shot that may or may not kill an animal.
He laughed that it ran off “yelping”.
Last year my neighbor chased a lung-shot deer four miles to dispatch it.
He did so because the humiliation and disapprobation would have been unacceptable.
Until and unless you follow it to be *sure*, you cannot say something did not suffer -unnecessarily-.
The OP did not follow the dog to be sure it died.
That is unacceptable, if no other reason than to be sure it had indeed died, leaving it no threat to anyone else.
Lung-shot with bow and arrow, just for the sake of accuracy.
You didn't enlighten Ronald Reagan with this tidbit of knowledge back in March 30, 1981?
You had until January 20, 1989 to do so.