Only by one idiot….

That's how it started. I mentioned that I've had to shoot dogs before and didn't like it and wish that I hadn't had to do it. Then everyone started bragging about how they'll shoot any dog that's on their property blah blah blah blah blah and I said that restraint should be used in shooting dogs and it kind of spun off from there. Now we're at a point where some retired curmudgeon is calling dogs that are muscled with broad heads deadly weapons that he will shoot on sight and I said that's ridiculous and laid out my case for not killing them based on their looks alone.

I'll lay out my case one more time. Kill problem dogs, it's perfectly acceptable. Don't kill a dog just because you see one. Utilize restraint.

Add me to the list....all get dispatched if I encounter. To each his own...

Question for all you dog killers……do you let your neighbor know you killed their dog, or do you act like a sissy and pretend you don’t know anything about it after you do it? Just wondering what is proper etiquette when shooting dogs?

We do have laws that permit killing of nuisance animals but we also have laws that prevent killing them if they are not a threat. It's called animal cruelty and it's been the law of Texas for a few years. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your perspective whether or not that animal is a threat is up to your discretion. All that I ask is that you truly utilize discretion and only shoot animals that are a real threat. You're free to do as you choose and I'm free to try to influence you to do as I would do. It doesn't mean I'm going to influence you and it doesn't mean that you're going to change my mind either.

They all keep it to themselves except for my mean [censored] old stepdad. He'll go pounding on someone's door yelling at them that he had to shoot their dog for getting after his cows, or horses, or chickens. He even got in trouble once for blasting a dog when a school bus was picking up some kids. I say he got in trouble, they just sent a deputy out and I was the one that talked to the deputy.

I have a former friend and just heard through the grapevine that someone shot his dog and he lives out in the middle of nowhere. I know the man and I've known him for 25 years. If he finds out who shot his dog he's going to kill them no ifs ands or buts about it. I also know him well enough to know that he's probably just going to pick someone that he thinks killed his dog if he can't nail down exactly who did it and he's going to kill them and I have absolutely zero doubt in my mind that is going to happen and for all I know it may have already happened.

Dude...this was about shooting dogs attacking a person....

Do you kill venomous snakes (or any snakes for that matter)?

I fully support killing dogs that are attacking a person and I voiced that on the first page of this thread I believe. Other people chimed in and said that they would shoot every dog and I asked that they only shoot dogs that are posing a legitimate threat instead of just walking by.

Snakes don't bother me and I come across them almost weekly during warm weather. I don't normally kill them, I usually just pick them up and relocate them away from where I'm trying to do work. If God thought snakes weren't useful he wouldn't have made snakes. I've had the pleasure of traveling down to Argentina and the Gauchos on the ranches down there will not kill rattlesnakes because they know that if they do they will be overrun with rats.

These threads always smoke out the folks who have zero knowledge or experience about owning and managing a ranch for livestock as well as wildlife.

I assume you're directing that at me and while I've never worked a ranch for a living I have had quite a bit of land that I put cattle on for an AG exemption and sold them when they hit about 3 years old or a bit less. Never did the auction thing but instead sold them to butchers around Dallas at a price that we thought was fair to both of us. After about 8 years of messing with that I decided it was easier just to lease out the grazing rights and that's what I've been doing for quite a while now. Never had a problem with dogs but coyotes would attack calves so I bought a donkey to keep guard and they killed coyotes pretty regularly. Dogs would get dumped out there occasionally and I found a lady that does a pitbull rescue out by Lake Worth that I would more often than not take them to even though it was quite the drive for me. I mentioned that I support animal shelters or rescues earlier in this thread and hers is one of them. The other one is out by Cedar Creek Lake.

Oh, you take them to a shelter so they can kill them.

A trio of local dogs (to my hunting area) ran in one afternoon. I killed the Pit Bull, scared the hound within an inch of his life & I had no idea a Weenie dog could run so fast.

Ok. You must get a lot out of the grapevine.

Is that an implication that I drink? I grew up Mormon although I'm not one today. I'm a very moderate drinker.

The Grapevine I'm referring to was me talking to someone I haven't spoken with in a year and they mentioned that the other guy's dog had been shot.

They are both no kill shelters and when they come up short on funds to feed the dogs I'll have a local feed mill deliver a pallet of dog food to them.

Just let me know when your ex-friend kills some guy. Anybody. Sounds like it’s imminent. Frankly, it really sounds like yet another load of crap.

1). Legalize drugs
2). Pits are undeniably good
3). Watch out my ex-friend is gonna go postal.
4). Who knows what is next.

The ex friend hasn't spoken to me in about 4 years because he was convinced I was a federal agent out to get him because a couple of my shooting buddies work in federal law enforcement. He is a lunatic. I shouldn't have antagonized him. When he accused me of being a Fed I told him that I was a contractor for the FBI and that I was in charge of "Operation piddle sniff" where I installed special sensors on rich people's toilets so we could find out what kind of drugs they use to blackmail them. I shouldn't have said something like that but I really couldn't help myself because it was hysterical when I was doing it.

I never said pits are undeniably good. They are as bad or as good as they are raised up to be. The majority of them out there in bad home environments are extremely abused and because of that they become quite aggressive and dangerous. When I find one like that is redeemable I do my best to get them into a good home. It really doesn't take much effort to rehab a dog.

The ex-girlfriend I was referring to sometime back Works under the professional name Mistress Daria. Feel free to look her up but make sure your wife doesn't check your computers history when you do so. We split 11 years ago and I haven't spoken with her in several years. She wasn't the only woman in that industry that I've dated, it's kind of a small group of men who can deal with someone like that and it makes you quite popular and a commodity.

What's next? Who knows. Keep posting topics that are near and dear to my heart and something might pop out.

Enough.

Haven't you heard? There's no such thing as a pit...



And those ^^^^^ are just "fatalities"...not attacks and injuries....those two categories are clearly chihuahuas....

So true!