Posted: 1/10/2014 2:12:20 PM EDT
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SO i just get home form work and my daughter tells me that this afternoon a small dog from the neighbors across from us, their dog was killed in my backyard be two bigger dogs that had it by the throat and probably crushed its airway and blood veins. I found three blood spots and a few blood trails from where i think it started to where it looks to have ended. Im told said neighbor came over screaming for their dog but it was too late. We have an adult cat the we let out for a little bit each day to do its cat thing and we have other neighbors who have small pets outside as well.
Since its illegal to fire a gun inside city limits and animal control is spread thin and won't do anything about this for probably weeks if ever, any idea on how to handle this issue? My first thought is if I see them to see if they have collars and attempt to locate owners and share words. If not, figure out a way to capture them and turn them over to animal control in some kind of cage or other trap. The description of the dogs, if memory serves, seems to match with a pair of dogs that attempted to attack me a few days after the Christmas eve blizzard a few years ago. I was packing my .45 and actually thought about shooting them but potential legal repercussions made me hold fire even though i was a few #s of trigger pressure away from dropping the hammer, one was a pit bull. Found that dogs owner the next day and about laid him out on his snow covered driveway. I figure since we are a mixed bunch of backgrounds I can get pretty solid ideas to stay legal. Deadly force is of course my last option but as my platoon Sgt always said "situation dictates". Advice? |
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Let's see...there has already been one pet killed and this is in city limits. You need to contact animal control and tell them what is going on and let them deal with it. If you take this into your own hands without contacting them and another pet gets killed they are going to start looking for someone to blame.
I'd say call animal control and let them decide how to handle it. If they don't do anything then document it and go from there but you'll be surprised how fast animal related shootings or deaths can go south for the people involved. |
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Let's see...there has already been one pet killed and this is in city limits. You need to contact animal control and tell them what is going on and let them deal with it. If you take this into your own hands without contacting them and another pet gets killed they are going to start looking for someone to blame. I'd say call animal control and let them decide how to handle it. If they don't do anything then document it and go from there but you'll be surprised how fast animal related shootings or deaths can go south for the people involved. Ocpd dispatch was uninterested when my wife told them I had my gun out and absolutely no animal control vehicle showed up for the dogs that made an attempt at me. Im in doubt they would give a fuck now but for legal sake I might call to get it on the record. |
| Yeah, their animal control officers are few and far between so you pretty much have to have a rabid Sasquatch stuck in your chimney to be blessed with a visit but to protect yourself legally from one of those situations go wrong you should have documentation that you tryed to get them to handle it first. |
| Okc animal control only has about 10 people to handle complaints for the entire city. Don't go through OCPD, they could care less unless it makes the news. Call animal control direct. The phone will probably ring about a hundred times before it gets answered, but eventually someone will. Or, go down there in person. |
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Illegal to shoot pop cans in your back yard.. Not illegal to shoot vicious dog attacking you. This. But yes, try calling animal control directly. Also, if you know who the dogs belong to, you might consider contacting the owner and letting them know that their dogs are running amok and are causing trouble. If they're small enough to drop with a suppressed .22, they're small enough to drop with a .22 or .25 caliber magnum airgun or a slingshot. If they're too big for that, you need one of these. Also, "one of them is a pit bull" really doesn't mean anything. All of the pit bulls I've known have been sweet dogs. Aggressive pit bulls are a sign of a bad owner, not an inherently bad breed. Any breed can turn out that way if they're not raised properly. |
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Luckily for me I am now way in the country and a 223 or 243 takes care of the problem dogs.
Last time I was in your situation a baseball bat worked wonders on the two dogs trying to get after my wife's little rat dog. Hell, I broke the bat on one of the bastards. They ran away yelping as best they could run, not sure if they survived or not and really don't give a shit. I will tell you we never saw them again. Take the BBQ offer from the other poster once you figure out where these dogs are from. They sound like they just need put down, next time it may be a kid. |