Not all stray or wandering dogs are stock molesters. In my opinion it's one thing to shoot a dog that's attacking your animals or birds but to shoot a dog that's on your property but ignoring the stock is a little unkind. Like the labrador mentioned earlier. It had been stolen and was trying...
I find it interesting that Tyler knew to look for the dog "across from Belate's home". Perhaps that's not the first time the dog had been on the property. There's more to this story than meets the eye. Like, for instance, why would Belate go to all the trouble of putting up electric fencing...