The thread you link to doesn't discuss a dog attacking your animal, but was about a dog attacking a person and most of it was about rabies, not the law. You are right, however, that both topics have been discussed at length in the past, I just don't think that's the most appropriate thread to link to.dicion wrote:Okay, I've started this topic:
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Please feel free to provide more links to topics already covered in the first post, and I will add them. In addition to that, Any Topic with 3 or more threads on it I think should suffice to get it on the list, please feel free to suggest and link these, and I will add them as well. I'll do a lot more tonight when I get home from work. Those 2 topics I have in there so far are the ones That have been discussed many many times over the past month, and were the easiest ones I could think right away.
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- Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:06 pm
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- Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:57 am
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Discharging a firearm inside city limits is generally a class C misdemeanor, which (and IANAL) would seem to me to be far less of a concern than, say, being charged under the animal cruelty law they passed a couple of sessions ago. Under that law killing an animal is a state jail felony IIRC, and it makes no allowances for circumstances unless livestock is involved 
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:32 am
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Seems pretty clear to me. Wouldn't want to do it unless I really had to, though. Pepper spray is probably a better first line of defense against animals.
Texas Health and Safety code ch. 822 subchapter B: wrote:Sec. 822.013. DOGS OR COYOTES THAT ATTACK ANIMALS. (a) A dog or coyote that is attacking, is about to attack, or has recently attacked livestock, domestic animals, or fowls may be killed by:
(1) any person witnessing the attack; or
(2) the attacked animal's owner or a person acting on behalf of the owner if the owner or person has knowledge of the attack.
(b) A person who kills a dog or coyote as provided by this section is not liable for damages to the owner, keeper, or person in control of the dog or coyote.
(c) A person who discovers on the person's property a dog or coyote known or suspected of having killed livestock, domestic animals, or fowls may detain or impound the dog or coyote and return it to its owner or deliver the dog or coyote to the local animal control authority. The owner of the dog or coyote is liable for all costs incurred in the capture and care of the dog or coyote and all damage done by the dog or coyote.
(d) The owner, keeper, or person in control of a dog or coyote that is known to have attacked livestock, domestic animals, or fowls shall control the dog or coyote in a manner approved by the local animal control authority.
(e) A person is not required to acquire a hunting license under Section 42.002, Parks and Wildlife Code, to kill a dog or coyote under this section.