But does a dog simply running loose deserve to be killed?
If it is allowed to do so. Keep your pets on your property. End of problem. And spay and neuter them. Tax payers are tired of cleaning up for pet owners. We are forced to kill hundreds of thousands of animals each year because of pet owners.
Where I live, the game wardens kill any loose dog they find. On the spot.Then they deliver the dogs body to the owner if the dog has tags, and they also fine the owner. Dogs hary and kill wild life after they get into a group of two or more. I agree with the policy. Round here in Vermont, people control their dogs or they do not have them long.It is a crime for non LEOs to kill a dog also.