74novaman wrote:2 shotgun blasts later, he finally decided he was bored with his chew toy and stopped attacking it.
Jack was running around like nothing was wrong. I'm sure they were using birdshot, but still.....Opened my eyes to the sort of abuse pits can take when they've got their blood up.
If you have to deal with them, be careful!
We used to have neighbors who had two of them. They had the chain in a tree with bite toy at the end of it thing going on. The dog would jump up and bite the toy and just hold on and swing for 10 to 20 minutes at a time shaking the crud out of it.
One summer I heard screaming from my sister out in our backyard. The dog had jumped the fence and was tearing apart my sisters miniature poodle. I ran outside and grabbed my PR24 on the way. I probably touched the ground twice. I gave it a couple of good taps on top of the head and he finally decided it was no longer fun and games to tear up the poodle. But then he was irritated and he saw me. He hesitated for second probably to clear his noggin from the ringing my previous taps had given him. Then the growl started coming and he started moving toward me... he was irritated now.
Well doom on him as thankfully he had given me enough time to really wind up and I swung for the fence and laid a baseball bat swing to his face. I managed to lift him up and throw him back with the blow. I guess then he decided that I wasn't worth the pain because he picked him self up and jumped back over the fence. I guess we are both lucky he did because I was going to try to stop the problem right there. The adrenalin was pumping so much I was going to beat that dog to death and I REALLY love dogs!
After that I loaded the 12 gauge up with 00 buck and kept it by the back door. About a year later we moved. The neighbor was retired PD so the cops wouldn't do anything and animal control was not about to cross the cops.