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WPamisano - read my above posts...Most people understand that their dog is their problem unless they let them become someone else's problems then that other person gets to chose how to dispatch it - AC, trapping, returning, killing - especially in the country.
There is no 'court' issues or suing in most country areas because there are LAWS that say I can shoot YOUR dog if it is on my property harrassing or has killed livestock. Shoot here I have the right to shoot any dog that is running at large as long as I call animal control and report that this dog is running loose and harassing my dogs and that can just be by crossing my yard and my dogs having a fit in the house.
I love my dogs they are my family but if my dog gets loose and bites a person, growls at a person in their yard, attacks and kills chickens even ONE time, I am not going to begrudge a person for shooting them. This is why I keep my dogs chained in a invisible fence when I am not home or indoors. If I am home they can be out in the invisible fence. However due to nieghbor dog issues and idiot neighbor next door I will be sticking a fence up in a month or so for privacy/property border purposes.
If I shot your dog after letting you know it growled at me or acted AT ALL aggressive to me or my animals in MY yard, and then you LET it return a 2nd time darn right its dead and i'll be SSS all the way. If you try to retaliate, go ahead. I would have the right of law on my side, and I am a sneaky evil person.
Sorry but your dog in my yard = my issue = resolved end of story. don't want your dog shot? easy - keep it confined or be right on its tail when it escapes.
Like I said, There are
real, bad folks out here. You'd do what you thought was right, and I'd do the same. What is legal is not always moral, and what is moral is not always legal. Oh, and I grew up farming, and live in rural Connecticut. My address used to be Rural Route 2. My land quailifies as "country." Peace.