What is this come one, come all!?? THE PACK CAME BACK!!

[Marion565]

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[akcountrygrrl]

I, too, would shoot to kill. Shooting to scare or wound an animal can actually get you in trouble. I've known people to be brought up on animal abuse charges for injuring an animal that they had shot in "defense of life or property". The thought process being that if you let the animal run off injured, it will probably die a slow painful death or be maimed for life and that is unfair to animal that is only doing what its base instincts tell it to do. So, if you shoot, shoot to kill.

 

[Luna9]

Thanks for the warning guys.

 

[rufus]

These dog threads are pure poison.

Unfortunately, the economic situation has caused a lot of folks to lose their homes. They can't take their animals with them when they go into rented property like apartments. In many places, they charge for placing animals in the pound. As a result, the poor animals are abandoned and hungry.

They soon form packs and become dangerous. Just last year, a pack of feral dogs attacked and ate a groundskeeper at a local park. And I just read last week that a lady in New Mexico was killed and eaten by loose dogs.

Calling animal control is absolutely pointless. They won't do anything unless the animals get on to the freeway or attack someone important.

Firing warning shots at a dog is pointless also. Dogs do not understand firearms. It is just another noise to them if you do not hit them.

The answer is good fences and vigilance. Keep a close eye out for them. Then if they make it through your fences, shoot them.

Good luck,

Rufus

 

[schellie69]

I think a pack of wild dogs is more dangerous then a pack of wolves, why the dogs have no fear of humans. I remember while doing research on the reintroduction of wolves to yellow stone there where deaths of cattle and sheep the ranchers where sure the wolves where doing the killing well come to find out the hard way a rancher got attacked by a pack of wild dogs that people had dumped. It was the dogs that were killing the cows and sheep and almost the rancher if a group of his hand had not shown up he would have been dead. The rancher and his help killed the pack. The killing of cows and sheep stopped. So be careful dogs that are in a pack are very dangerous.

 

[Luna9]

Well I thought that I would say that Hubby and I walked to the woods and we did find the trail they left on but found no hair or blood anywhere. We did follow the trail a little ways in and still nothing (Its a little muddy in there because of a semi dried creek bed and random mud holes...so its easy to follow something in there). So I think that if I hit one it was barely a graze or "he" was hit by a stick or something at the same time of the shot...which caused him to yelp because of fear. I was only using a 22 so its "just a little gun" and Im pretty confident to say that I think I missed...which was my intent this go 'round.