Shot the dog in front of its owners. It may be legal, but it is was not right, as the saying goes.
Keep your dogs and kids off my lawn.
Its for your own good.
And that is...as they say...that.
Even here in Massachusetts you can legally shoot and kill an animal that is molesting your livestock.
Laws of the states vary.
Follow the laws, do right, keep it to yourself. loose lips and all.
Our neighborhood Facebook HOA page is all day, everyday non-stop posts about idiots losing their dogs and asking folks to be on the lookout for them.
In the story above, I say good for the guy that shot the dog, if you cannot control your dog and it’s out killing things for fun, that what you get.
That’s a standard law. If it kills or threatens livestock, then it can be shot. A dog I once had jumped a fence and started chasing cattle. A sheriff instantly pulled up and put his 30/30 on top of the car roof ready to kill the dog unless I got it out NOW. I did call it back and the dog lived.
My father killed my 3rd grade teacher’s dog...it kept going after our chickens...he said he really meant to just scare it, but he hit it. I still was teacher’s pet.
Sounds like a reasonable but inequitable trade to me. If people want these big animals or viscous animals they have got to keep them under control or have a place big enough to let them roam. They will follow their instincts no matter what and a lot of those instincts are bad ones.
I have noticed two area dogs on a long roam in the west pasture. If I could reach out and touch them I would. We will have new calves on the ground in a couple of months and dogs have no place being with them then.
The other person lost his cat and livestock.
Lose/lose that could have been avoided.
I shoot stray dogs and cats when they come on our ranch.
I’m not waiting for them to kill my chickens or try to attack our kids.
Besides, it saves them from getting eaten alive by the wolves, coyotes, eagles, and wild cats.
Some of them still get stomped into meat waffles by our bison.
Pyrenees are used for LE and Military dogs they are extremely hard to have as pets these dogs NEED to be trained extensively, once that dog had gotten to those chickens there would be no stopping him from hunting in that neighbors yard some dogs are NOT meant to be pets they are bread for working purposes and until they are retired they should NOT be pets!!! Our hero dog Conan was a Pyrenees!!!
5 principles of Responsible Dog Ownership...
Contain, Control, Maintain, Train, and Socialize
Pair of Huskies came on my property and killed my cat who was lying on the sun on the balcony. I did not shoot them although I was tempted.
The owner started yelling at me because Tilly had shredded their ears while they were killing her and they were show dogs. I pointed out that he was the nitwit that let them out.
Found out later that he had a habit of "forgetting" to secure his gate. Usually they went north and tried to get at another neighbor's rabbits. Tilly's bad luck that they went south that day.
Anyhow the next time they went to visit the rabbits the rabbit owner shot both of them.
The dog's owner threw a fit. Rabbit guy pointed out that this was the sixth time they had come on his property and tried to kill (and had killed a couple of times) his rabbits. Dog owner had been warned he would shoot them the next time they came over.
Sounds reasonable...
A dog shooting I agree with. The fault entirely is with its owners, not the man who suffered all those animal losses on his own property.
2/5/2020
2 family pit bulls mauled man
ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS
Location: inside man’s home, neighbor accidentally killed the man with his crossbow while trying to kill dogs
https://www.nationalpitbullvictimawareness.org/
Note: this is either the 5th or 6th death by pit bull (this one is indirect) in the US since Jan 1, 2020.
The other death (direct) by a pack of pit bulls reported today is this one:
“2020 Dog Bite Fatality: Man Who Uses Wheelchair Killed by Pack of Dogs in Attala County, Mississippi
Harvey Harmon Jr., 76-years old, was killed by a pack of dogs in central Mississippi. Man Killed by Dogs Attala County, MS - A man is dead after being mauled to death by a pack of dogs, Attala County Sheriff Tim Nail confirmed today. “
https://blog.dogsbite.org/category/dog-bite-fatalities