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cheezit wrote:http://www.igorilla.com/gorilla/animal/ ... geles.html

When he returned, he found the family's Pomeranian dog on the bed attacking the baby

2,000 children are killed every year by their parents, through abuse and neglect (A child is 800 times more likely to be killed by their adult caretaker than by a “Pit Bull”)


Really people because its a "pit", a gsd, a chow, a rot, etc, etc......
to me this statement is no wore then being a bigit.
The avarge mutt is no more or less dangorus then the Lab accross the street thats always running around off the leash.

Saying you're more likely to be attacked by a pit, is like saying you're more likely to be shot by a glock.

It may be true, but only because some of the people that use them that way, not because of what they are.

tubular031 wrote:A few nights ago my girl and I were out walking our dog around the neighborhood. My dog is a little 20lb corgi. We are just walking around minding our own business and here comes a rather big lab type dog running to get to us. I quickly pull my dog back and put my hand on my gun. I did not draw but was ready to if I needed. Thankfully the dog was very friendly and just wanted to say hi to us. This got me thinking, what if the dog attacked us? Would that be a case to pull and shoot? I know Rick Perry got off on his coyote shooting but he is higher on the food chain than us little “common “ people.

First off, This is all my opinion.

This has been debated before on here, but I believe the general consensus was, if the dog was potentially going to attack, and was reasonably considered to be able to cause injury, then you are well within your rights to defend yourself from it. I say 'injury' because you don't know if a dog has rabies, or is trained as an attack dog, or has flesh eating bacteria in it's mouth. A small bite could be just as fatal as a large bite. So it doesn't have to be able to cause 'serious' or 'fatal' injury.

Now use common sense, if a dachshund wobbles up to you, and starts yipping at you incessantly... I wouldn't consider that 'potentially going to attack', but if the same dachshund charges you, teeth bared, and lunges for your ankles... I'd consider it valid to shoot.

Lots of places have leash laws, and being off of a leash is more justification for your side of the story if you do have to shoot one.

Now, be prepared for a VERY not happy owner, if you do shoot their dog. I believe there was a story about someone shooting a dog, and so it's owner pulled a gun and shot the guy defending himself for it mentioned somewhere.