my last dog died just a few months ago. i was truly sad and we mourned her loss. in 11 years she never left her fenced area without me opening the gate and telling her it was o.k. i had exactly the same situation with previous dog and the dog before.
several years ago i looked out my window to see the biggest meanest looking pit bull/rotweiller mix i had ever seen looking lost. he had no business in my yard. i grabbed up my .45 and walked out the door. i cautiously approached the dog with my pistol at the ready and told him to sit, which he did. i carefully extended my hand to check his collar for information with my pistol still at the ready. no information on the collar and he didn't try to maul me. good for me, good for the dog.
we put up a large sign in the front yard and put him in a separate pen. our other male dog was upset at his presence so we knew we couldn't keep him. we contacted to local vets and animal shelters. nobody reported him missing and nobody showed up from our sign. i developed a good relationship with him and we eventually found him a good home. it was all up to his actions though. had he even growled at me on my property, i would have popped a cap in him. instead he is presently living in the great state of south carolina and even has his own bedroom.
about 20 years ago i got a call about a doberman that was going to have to be put to sleep for killing some other dogs. the owner was distraught because the animal control officers were on the way to his home. this was the third time he had killed another dog and he was to be destroyed. the real bummer was that all of the dogs he had killed were in HIS yard. people let their dogs get out, enter someone else's yard and when they got killed they blamed the innocent dog that was only protecting his territory.
somehow the doberman managed to magically disappear before animal control got to the location to pick him up. when i dropped the tailgate at my house and my dogs came out to greet him he immediately jumped on the first one and started trying to kill him. i picked up a 2x4 and beat him severely. i then picked him up, put him back in the truck and took him to the vet to fix what i had broken. when i brought him back home and let him out he sniffed at the other dogs and then went and laid down. he never killed another dog from that point on and Max lived out a long life as a fine companion until he died of cancer.
the bottom line is this. too many people are not smart enough to raise and properly care for a dog. if you can't control your dogs behavior then keep them contained. if you can do neither you don't deserve to own dogs and shouldn't be surprised when they get shot on someone else's land. raising a dog is easy, if at first you don't succeed then try house plants.
michael
several years ago i looked out my window to see the biggest meanest looking pit bull/rotweiller mix i had ever seen looking lost. he had no business in my yard. i grabbed up my .45 and walked out the door. i cautiously approached the dog with my pistol at the ready and told him to sit, which he did. i carefully extended my hand to check his collar for information with my pistol still at the ready. no information on the collar and he didn't try to maul me. good for me, good for the dog.
we put up a large sign in the front yard and put him in a separate pen. our other male dog was upset at his presence so we knew we couldn't keep him. we contacted to local vets and animal shelters. nobody reported him missing and nobody showed up from our sign. i developed a good relationship with him and we eventually found him a good home. it was all up to his actions though. had he even growled at me on my property, i would have popped a cap in him. instead he is presently living in the great state of south carolina and even has his own bedroom.
about 20 years ago i got a call about a doberman that was going to have to be put to sleep for killing some other dogs. the owner was distraught because the animal control officers were on the way to his home. this was the third time he had killed another dog and he was to be destroyed. the real bummer was that all of the dogs he had killed were in HIS yard. people let their dogs get out, enter someone else's yard and when they got killed they blamed the innocent dog that was only protecting his territory.
somehow the doberman managed to magically disappear before animal control got to the location to pick him up. when i dropped the tailgate at my house and my dogs came out to greet him he immediately jumped on the first one and started trying to kill him. i picked up a 2x4 and beat him severely. i then picked him up, put him back in the truck and took him to the vet to fix what i had broken. when i brought him back home and let him out he sniffed at the other dogs and then went and laid down. he never killed another dog from that point on and Max lived out a long life as a fine companion until he died of cancer.
the bottom line is this. too many people are not smart enough to raise and properly care for a dog. if you can't control your dogs behavior then keep them contained. if you can do neither you don't deserve to own dogs and shouldn't be surprised when they get shot on someone else's land. raising a dog is easy, if at first you don't succeed then try house plants.
michael
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