This is trivial to post on an international forum but I had to tell somebody. My neighbors dog has escaped many times, running up and down the street looking for something to kill. It's got four pet cats out in broad daylight, mauling a couple to death in front of small children. The neighbors with kids now post guards while the kids play outside. We've developed a neighborhood watch plan involving air horns to sound the alarm when the dog is out. I've been threatened by the dog in my own front yard and now mow the lawn with a pistol on my belt! I bought my wife a Mossberg pump and train her up regularly against the possibility of a serious event. After a talk with the owner last night he says he'll get rid of the dog. It's going, I know that for sure. Anyway, if I drop off here maybe the dam thing has killed me. The authorities have been notified, again. We'll see.
Viscious dog alert
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I posted this story a while ago on another string, but maybe it's worthwhile to tell it again:
We have 10 acres of woods, with our home at the south end of the quarter mile deep property. There is a road along the back end of the place, and there was a home across on the north side of that road, which had a rather large bunch of “running loose” dogs - which is why I usually carried a gun when I went back there.
On one occasion, a couple of rather large members of the pack decided I was trespassing on their territory, and came at me. The largest one, a cross between a boxer and something big, was in the lead. When it ignored my threats and commands to “git", and “go home” (and was, by then,'way too close)I hit it with a 10mm. It went down, but managed to lurch back across the road before it got quiet and apparently died.
I immediately went back to the house and called the Sheriff's office and told them what I had done. The officer asked “Was the dog coming at you?” and “Were you on your own property?” When I answered yes to both questions, he said “We don't even write those things up." End of story.
Wes
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Around here we've had similar.problems with loose feral dogs. The County leash law is rigidly enforced and a dog with no collar and no county license and rabies tag can be shot on your own property. A loose licensed dog you call animal control and they pick it up. If the dog has tags or is chipped, it is returned to the owner, $25 fine first offense, sliding scale afterwards. Animals with a violent history net a $100 fine. Docile, adoptable dogs go to the shelter. Vicious ones are euthanized.
Full charge .38 Special wadcutter.is effective on pit bull mix.
73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia
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Most of the county I live in is “range land"; if you want livestock off your property, you have to fence them out. Dogs running your stock? You shoot them all. I am a great dog lover and have two now. If they get out of my fenced property and run stock they need to be shot. We have few really feral dogs, the coyotes eat them, but packs of collared and licensed dogs that run stock, so they all die. So many dog attacks that LE almost never responses to someone shooting a dog unless it within the city limits. I wish people had to have a license to even have the privilege of owning a dog. FWIW, Ric
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Big+1 on what Ric said! In our part of the country alot of people make there living on their livestock, even if the ill-mannered dogs dont attack the stock they still run them and the animals lose weight. Ranchers dont have these animals as pets. Any dog running stock is shot, as it should be. GP
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When I got out of the navy wife and I stayed with my grandparents on a small new England farm. A local dog was terrorizing my grandmother, he would sneek up on you teeth barred. I was up in the garden with a hoe and saw the cur creeping up on me. When he broke cover he started running at me. I figured we're going to have this out right now and headed for him at a full run. Dang near brained him with the hoe and he beat feet and never came back. Frank C.
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If you don't gave a gun, I recommend a pitchfork. Our trash collecting crews down on US1 below Alexandria, VA became quite adapt at scooping up charging pit bulls, heaving them into the back of the packer and compacting them.into the trash. When trucks would dump their loads at the landfill the dogs had no fight left kn them.
73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia
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a friend who was delivering bulk liquid propane was attacked by a german shepherd.. he doused him with frozen lp out of the delivery hose.
the next time he delivered at that house the dog hid under the porch and barked at him. kind of instant dog whispering, i think.
ken
speaking of coyotes eating dogs, we are getting a number of mountain lions in our neighborhood ... they love fresh dogs.
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Years ago I had a flock of 10 or so turkeys that some ones dog got. A 12 ga load of chilled ended his fun. The dog warden wasn't too happy with me.
I don't like killing some ones pet, but there comes a time!
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+1; I grew up on a rural ranch and stock-chasers were met with extreme prejudice.
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When I was a young man, my Grandfather had a 150 acre farm. He was out on the farm when a feral dog pack attacked him. He had a Colt Bankers Special (.22 rimfire snubbie with target sights) in his pocket. He shot the leader and a couple of others, that ended that fight post haste. My Grandfather was not injured.
Feral dogs are some of the most dangerous animals that humans can face. Those pet dogs, that are so nice when single, can become extremely vicious when traveling with a pack.
"Tracker Brown” in his book describes some dog attacks in the New Jersey Pine Barrens where people just disappeared. It turned out that the dogs ate EVERYTHING - all of the bones including the skulls.
I have always carried in the woods and fields but have been fortunate. I never ran across any feral dogs that became a problem. I have had friends attacked but not while I was with them. Me, the only problems that I have had have been with bears. I was treed for several hours one night in the Smokies but that's another story.
FWIW Dale53
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