If you call the cops to your home, take care of your damn dog! Put it in a room, lock it up, put a leash on it.
Unless the police are serving a no-knock warrant, most of these dogs shooting could have probably been avoided if the owner woke up and thought about how their dog would react to an unknown cop coming into an already volatile situation.
Plenty of blame to go around.
I’ll agree that people should be doing that, however if you’re calling the cops there’s probably other things going on that might be distracting you from paying attention to your animals.
I just can’t imagine actually pulling my gun out as a CCW and shooting an animal running towards me unless it was a cougar or a wolf or something.
I carry pepper spray mostly for dogs, and the cops have that option too.