At what point can you shoot a neighbors dog?

[brikon]

If a dog comes at me, my wife or child. Believe me, he is getting some 9mm up his a$$. A threat is threat. Plain and simple.

 

[Radar363]

I also vote for calling Animal Control.
Chances are good that when the county employee is approached by 2 large menacing dogs that the problem will solve itself.
Sucks for the dogs, but these are the times in which we live.

 

[JoKeR50]

Have you talked to the owner? I feel this is one of the things that is making our country go to hell in a hand basket, we don't talk to each other. Is there a leash law where you live? Start off nice and let the owner of the situations and your concern. Maybe try not to lead off with "and I will shoot those f'n mutts...." See if they are reasonable, if not call animal control and the cops ever time there is an issue, and it never hurts to carry, try dog mace and a gun.

 

[codygarcia]

i'd wait for a day when the dogs were running around unleashed and growling, then call the cops. mean dogs love uniforms and cops always have spray, tasers and heat.

 

[Porter Rockwell]

You owe the owners at least one attempt at a sincere honest discussion. Document the day and time that you talked to your neighbor. Ask him nicely to keep his dogs on his property. If it persists, call the police file reports and then let the police talk to your neighbor. Spray the dogs with pepper spray, dogs are not dumb, they can be effectively trained. They will get the message to stay off of your property.

Shooting the dogs, while well within your right if they threaten you, may bring a huge host of troubles that you don’t want. It’s not about if you have the right to, it’s about what is the best path for you to reduce your troubles. Shooting the dogs will only exacerbate your problems.

 

[bass222000]

Have you talked to the owner? I feel this is one of the things that is making our country go to hell in a hand basket, we don't talk to each other. Is there a leash law where you live? Start off nice and let the owner of the situations and your concern. Maybe try not to lead off with "and I will shoot those f'n mutts...." See if they are reasonable, if not call animal control and the cops ever time there is an issue, and it never hurts to carry, try dog mace and a gun.

Best advice yet.
After I went that route it would be the three “S” method
Shoot, Shovel, Shut-up

 

[branthopolis]

Geez.. Go knock on their door and talk to them...

 

[Glorfindel]

When I was a kid our neighbors had about 20 pitbulls that came into our yard and bit my dad on the face and then my sister. He went inside, got his 30-30 and started slangin lead at em. Neighbors called the dog pound man. When he got there my dad was still killing em cuz they was eatin our chickens. So he left. Came back with GSP. State patrolman said he had a right to defend his children and live stock. We had been to court with them about the dogs but when they bit my sister that was all she wrote.

Also bout a year ago my neighbor across from me had 2 large dogs that would grawl at my son every time he would walk down our dirt road to catch school bus. All it took was one trip down the road with my son and a mossberg 500 and never saw the dogs in the morning again.

 

[Plinker66]

On amazon They say the $40 bear spray goes 35 feet. Prolly a lot less trouble.

 

[HoopDawg42]

The dogs have more rights than you do in most cases. Talking to the owners is a start in the right direction. Getting buddy buddy with the dogs might work too. If that doesn't work then the authorities should get involved. Then again...dogs do just "wander off" sometimes