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with my dog running towards me darting back and forth with this dog after him like a demon and them both coming my way...what do you think the dog would have done when it reached me if it had not caught my dog first? Think it would have wagged his tail and sat? Hardly, it was in a frenzy that makes it dangerous. It does not know me.
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I have seen labs just as mean as any other dog. My father's lab will bite you ina second if you corner him or mess with my father. I am not stupid enough to go and try to grab a dog I do not know, that is all worked up and in a frenzy. My daddy did not raise a fool and I know when I am asking to be bitten and that would have been the perfect time to get bitten.
As for civil relations with the neighbors...I could care less. I am not living in my house, minding my own business and playing with my chickens and ducklings because i want to be friends with a nitwit's husband. I could care less if they are happy or not, that is their business.
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I am glad that you can be civil and help someone fix their fence after their dog kills your chicken. I am not near the woman you are obviously. However, I resent deeply being tagged as "dog shooter'. I do not relish killing a dog and have never in my life killed any animal that I was not planning to eat or was not suffering with the exception of 3 dogs. 1 last year that charged me in my yard. The one yesterday who was trying to get my chickens, my dog and possibly me. The third was my own dog and it broke my heart to do it. He was a retired K-9 that we had bred, raised and trained, he went on to serve 4 years with the sheriff's department and then came to live with me. After 6 months of seeing this same child bike past my house twice per day going to school and coming from school, he jumped the fence, chased the kid, pulled him off the bike by his pant leg and proceed to stand on the child's chest growling at him. I called max and he did not come back, I grabbed my pistol and I called him again...he came back, walked through the gate and I shot him. why? Because he could no longer be trusted. He attacked unprovoked and a child no less. even though he did not injure the child what is to say he would not do it again and bite? I do not believe in passing on my problems to someone else and he was now a problem so I did the right thing. Whether you would agree or disagree with it, I could care less. I sleep at night fine knowing that someone else does not have a dog that would attack a child. but to put me in with a category of "dog shooter" is insulting and I do not appreciate it in the slightest.
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Most people cannot be reasoned with because they are too stupid to admit they should not own a dog because the dog has more sense. Most do not believe their dog would ever do something like that blah blah. You and I agree on one thing...I believe that killing should be our last choice...it was my last choice at that moment so I did it. i also cried for 30 minutes afterwards, took time to regain control of myself and stop blaming myself for not looking outside before I let my dog out and a host of other things, then I took the dog back to its owners and broke down in tears telling the man what I had done and what had happened and how sorry I was. And even he was not blessed with a spouse who has an ounce of common sense to see that I was obviously upset and I did not walk out my door in my night clothes and hunt the dog down to shoot it.
I folllowed the law in my state..here it is read it.
609.095. Dogs declared public nuisance; public nuisance prohibited; presumption of noncompliance; complaints
(1) A dog is a public nuisance if it:
(a) Chases persons or vehicles on premises other than premises from which the keeper of the dog may lawfully exclude others;
(b) Damages or destroys property of persons other than the keeper of the dog;
(c) Scatters garbage on premises other than premises from which the keeper of the dog may lawfully exclude others;
(d) Trespasses on private property of persons other than the keeper of the dog;
(e) Disturbs any person by frequent or prolonged noises;
(f) Is a female in heat and running at large; or
(g) Is a potentially dangerous dog, but is not a dangerous dog as defined in ORS 609.098.
609.098. Maintaining dangerous dog defined
(1) As used in this section, "dangerous dog" means a dog that:
(a) Without provocation and in an aggressive manner inflicts serious physical injury, as defined in ORS 161.015, on a person or kills a person;
(b) Acts as a potentially dangerous dog, as defined in ORS 609.035, after having previously committed an act as a potentially dangerous dog that resulted in the keeper being found to have violated ORS 609.095; or
(c) Is used as a weapon in the commission of a crime.
(2) A person commits the crime of maintaining a dangerous dog if the person is the keeper of a dog and the person, with criminal negligence, fails to prevent the dog from engaging in an act described in subsection (1) of this section.
609.125. "Livestock" defined
As used in ORS 609.135 to 609.190, "livestock" means ratites, psittacines, horses, mules, jackasses, cattle, llamas, alpacas, sheep, goats, swine, domesticated fowl and any fur-bearing animal bred and maintained commercially or otherwise, within pens, cages and hutches
609.150. Destruction of dog that harms or chases livestock, exemptions
(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, any dog, whether licensed or not, which, while off the premises owned or under control of its owner, kills, wounds, or injures any livestock not belonging to the master of such dog, is a public nuisance and may be killed immediately by any person. However, nothing in this section applies to any dog acting under the direction of its master, or the agents or employees of such master.
(2) If any dog, not under the control of its owner or keeper, is found chasing or feeding upon the warm carcass of livestock not the property of such owner or keeper it shall be deemed, prima facie, as engaged in killing, wounding or injuring livestock.
(3) No person shall kill any dog for killing, wounding, injuring or chasing chickens upon a public place, highway or within the corporate limits of any city.
As for earning respect of a strange dog...it did not respect me yelling for it to stop or go home, it did not respect being hit with a brick I threw at it so respect for person was not in the dog's ability and guess what...letting it kill my dog in my yard was not within my ability either.
You give the same advice to anyone here that kills a predator and make no mistake a dog after chickens or another animal is a predator and just because you will allow someone's dog to kill your chicken does not mean anyone much less everyone else, must follow your dictate or path.
I shot the dog, I felt bad and still feel bad about it. I spoke to Speckledhen on the phone about this for awhile this very morning and ya know what...she is right. I am upset because I have a heart and love for animals and killing them is not something I relish. I am not a pet killer. But, Iwill do so if it threatens my pets on my property. Period!
I am still sad about the whole thing but it is what it is I guess.
