Eweeboy. Poisoning your NEIGHBORS dog. 
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one’s fellow human being: to be generous toward one’s less fortunate neighbors.
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I live in BrianK’s World and AF given to poison a neighbor’s pet is not neighborly.
A few years back our NEIGHBOR had a pitbull that would frequently get away from them. She was a awesome dog and I took her home many times when she broke her chain or go loose on way or another.
Then Woody and Forest came into the picture. We took them to “social hour” for a year and just couldn’t get them to play with other dogs except my Mother in Laws.
I became worried that the pit would come over and get into our fenced in back yard. My boys wouldn’t play nice and the pit would tear them up. What would be worse is if my FW was there. I know she would jump in and try to separate them.
My wife or I are no match for a pit trying to protect herself with two ankle bitters trying to take a nip at here. Clearly my little guys would have been the aggressive dogs…in MY fenced in back yard.
I talked to the neighbors about my concerns and they understood. Their pit would still be roaming around in the neighborhood. I called them and talk to them again explaining that I would be talking to the sheriff and would be holding their dog for the dog catcher next time she was over.
The reason I wanted to speak with the sheriff was to ensure I knew my rights. The LAST thing I wanted to do is to put down my NEIGHBORS dog, but if it came to harming my dogs or my wife on my property, I would be left with no other choice.
After explaining the above to the deputy, he said exactly what I thought. I have the right to protect my property (the boys) and my wife from the harm of an attacking dog.
OK…I’m good I thought. I went to my backyard and thought out a “what if” scenario. Three dogs in the back yard fighting and my wife trying to break it up. (If you know my wife and here dogs, there wouldn’t be anything anyone could do to stop her from jumping into a bad situation to try to protect here mutts).
What am I going to do? Go get a shotgun? Takes too long to get it, load it and try to pepper the trespassing dog. Not a good option in my opinion.
9mm that’s with me 99% of the time. Great, but if I’m on the same level as the dog, what happens if the bullet doesn’t stop and enters another neighbors house. The bullet is MY responsibility. So I need to know where I can shoot if this would happen.
What I found out is that I would have to be basicly point blank to ensure the bullet would end up in the ground. Any other location and I’m taking a chance on hitting my wife, our dogs to a lesser extent or just not knowing where the bullets going.
The only other chance would be if the dog retreats and then starts advancing again.
Thankfully none of this played out. Turns out the “nice doggy” that I really did think as a good dog wasn’t so good with little children and the owner put her down in the end.
BTW He didn’t train her to be aggressive toward children, just as I didn’t train my ankle bitters to be aggressive towards other dogs. Sometimes they just are…just as some people feel poisoning someone’s pet is a is the right thing to do.
