Would you shoot?

[berettabone]

Understand about a neighbors dogs. My next door neighbor Bill was bitten by a neighbors Boxer. This is from the house behind him and they share the chain-link fence at the rear of their properties. The dang Boxer leapt up on the fence and bit Bill hard on his left elbow, trying to drag him back across the fence. The wound required medical work but the "surprised" owners of the boxer paid the medical costs and Bill let it go. Since then this Boxer has leapt over every fence around except mine (which why its still alive) and it has menaced several folks including children. The boxers owner then bought some 8ft tall bamboo roll fence and wired it to the chain-link common to Bill's yard. This boxer then found it's "inner panda" and ate the bamboo fence in just four days.
Now Bill and his wife are going to erect a fancy privacy fence to keep their dogs in and the boxer out. Bill told me the fence would cost a jaw dropping $4300 bucks...

I instantly blurted out "man, a 12gage shell is only 50cents"!!

That dog should already be dead.........

[berettabone]

There is the alternative...........................I had a problem with neighbor dogs, and tried to solve it with some compassion, with no avail, so..........................out comes the Exlax, in chocolate...............took care of the problem.

[Ikeo74]

No.

[b4uqzme]

Thoughts after reading a nother post here:

Here is the scenario. You are out and about and a full grown Rottweiler is running toward you, barking and growling and looking ferocious. The owner is yelling for it to come back and stop ect but the dog will have none of that. You are healed. No one else is around. What would you do? Would you shoot?

This thread does have me thinking: It appears that it's easier to identify malicious intent in two-legged animals compared to four-legged.

[getsome]

Some people are the problem more so than the dog...A dog can be trained to behave their owner and not be a nuisance to others and if that owner either can't or won't do it then they shouldn't own a pet....I had a neighbor once that was a real nice guy and a good neighbor except for his two little POS hairy mutts that stayed in his backyard most of the time and if I ever set foot in my backyard those two hair balls would start barking and foaming at the mouth and snarling for HOURS or until I went back inside and he never seemed to notice it...It made my backyard almost unusable unless you wore ear plugs....I tried to make friends with the dogs but they weren't interested and just bared their nasty little yellow fangs and wanted to kill me...I love dogs but I absolutely HATED those nasty things and they were one of the reasons we sold that house and moved.....Bottom line is if you own a dog that barks for hours and hours and hours on end then freekin make um stop!!!....

[Earle]

Some people are the problem more so than the dog...A dog can be trained to behave their owner and not be a nuisance to others and if that owner either can't or won't do it then they shouldn't own a pet....I had a neighbor once that was a real nice guy and a good neighbor except for his two little POS hairy mutts that stayed in his backyard most of the time and if I ever set foot in my backyard those two hair balls would start barking and foaming at the mouth and snarling for HOURS or until I went back inside and he never seemed to notice it...It made my backyard almost unusable unless you wore ear plugs....I tried to make friends with the dogs but they weren't interested and just bared their nasty little yellow fangs and wanted to kill me...I love dogs but I absolutely HATED those nasty things and they were one of the reasons we sold that house and moved.....Bottom line is if you own a dog that barks for hours and hours and hours on end then freekin make um stop!!!....

I understand your pain. We have one neighbor who has a small dog with a very high pitched bark. She used to put it out at the crack of dawn until leaving for work around 7:30 or so. It barked continually. The weird thing is that the dog is stone deaf. If she had its larynx removed, it'd never know the difference. There must have been complaints, because it's never put out that early any more and it doesn't stay out for two hours or more at a time...

[b4uqzme]

I had a friend who tied her dog outside while she was at work and the dog barked all day drawing complaints from the neighbors. So she bought a bark-activated shock collar. It worked, kind of. She came home to find the dog whispering; "woof, woof".

True story.

[Earle]

I had a friend who tied her dog outside while she was at work and the dog barked all day drawing complaints from the neighbors. So she bought a bark-activated shock collar. It worked, kind of. She came home to find the dog whispering; "woof, woof".

True story.

LOL! I could go for that...

[DavidS]

I had a friend who tied her dog outside while she was at work and the dog barked all day drawing complaints from the neighbors. So she bought a bark-activated shock collar. It worked, kind of. She came home to find the dog whispering; "woof, woof".

True story.

I've known of more than one dog that had been taught to whisper, but only on command, not all the time. Had one myself, a cocker spaniel.

[Earle]

Come to think of it, the deaf dog would be controlled by the collar, anyway. However, she doesn't seem to be that much of a caring person. She moved to be across from her parents in their 80s, to take care of them. However, so far as I can see, they seem to be taking care of her still...