Ever Have To Shoot Your Neighbor's Dog?

[Elite1]

A buddy of mine kept having problems with his neighbors dogs, they were two big 1/2 doberman 1/2 pitbull mix. Big and mean, he lived in a neighborhood where you put your trash cans out on the curb once a week so the trash man can collect them. Every week these dogs would knock down his cans and make a big mess scavenging for food. Then the garbabge man wouldn't collect the trash because it was spread all over the place. This went on for several weeks, and he told the neighbor several times to secure his dogs. The neighbor didn't do anything about it, so he did..... a lot of rat poisen mixed in hamburger meat, went into his trash can one night... ..... never heard from those dogs again!

 

[DKayser]

dogzncats

I grew up on a small farm in the midwest and it always irked me that people wouldn`t neuter or spay their critters. They just dumped them off outside of town for us to deal with. I got plenty of practice dealing with feral dogs AND cats. The dogs chased horses and cattle. And the cats, well one year we had 52 cats and kittens. Hell, I hauled kittens to 4 or 5 shelters,all they would accept. If people will not, or cannot, control an animal, God help us when they have children! At least you can shoot their pets. Don.

 

[BV]

My step bro put down his own dog after he bite my 5 year old daughter on the forehead/eye. The cool part is that I didn't have to even ask.



I would do the same thing with my lab if she bit anyone - Not just a kid.



With our first house came a neighbor with a big mutt called Conan. Well, Conan had this fetish for the mail delivery person and one day doggy nabbed the delivery person as he was jumping the fence trying to get away - Broke his leg and ankle. The owner cried and paid her $500 then let him do it again - I Conan disappeared and never came back home and I'm sure he didn't end up in heaven.

 

[Champane Flight]

Then

Then you have the other side of the story, where an owner keeps his dogs penned, takes good care of them, gets sued because someones brat wants to tease the dogs and gets bit.



Like BV, I will not own a dog that bites under any condition and the dog was put down. But just knowing that the dog most likely would have been fine if not teased ticks me off. Waste of a good dog.

 

[Mtngoat]

Kind of a funny story, well, not for the dog. Anyway, a friend had a birddog that had turned mean. So he got out his old . 38 went out to the doghouse and called the dog out (it was on a chain). The dog came running out and he shot him in the head. Well, the bullet was an old reload and didnt have much grunt. The bullet hit the dog's head and bounced off. The dog commenced to waking up the neighborhood and ran back into the dog house. My friend went and got another gun to do the job. When he called the dog, he wouldnt come out. It was a big, deep doghouse and it was back in the corner. He had to set on the ground, put both feet on each side of the door and started pulling to get the dog out. Then dog wasn't coming so, he got his brothers to both pull and when the dog finally was drug out, he was successfully shot.

Can you imagine what the dog was thinking??



Robin

 

[lschultz]

Lab

This is a little off but its a dog story Years ago we were dove hunting and my father in law had a black lab(Sport). He was down about a 100 yds from me,some birds came over and he dropped them. Sport runs over and picks one up brings it back to ole man and sets down looking at him with bird in mouth and them big ole Lab eyes. Father in law tells him not to eat and then Sport swallows bird. Father in law gets ******:-{} and he takes double barrel and bangs it over Sports back,breaks stock,shotgun goes off and he is a cussing. Next thing I know Sport runs up to me and sets down next to me. Father in law is still:-{} Sport looks at me and then looks down there at father in law who is still :-{} :{

 

[Champane Flight]

Buddys Dad

I had a best friend as a kid who had a large ole lab mix since he was born. Well, the dog was getting awful stove up and up in the years. So his Dad tells his son that ole Buck had to be put down, it was the only kind thing to do. He has this long talk with his son and after all the balling and squalling was over my friend agrees.



So the next day his Dad loads his gun in the gun rack, a shovel in the back, along with ole Buck. He leaves and we go fishing so my friend can take his mind off his dog. Time passes and the whole day goes by, we head in from fishing and get to his house. His mother is worried because still no sign of his Dad yet.



About a hour later here comes the pickup, Ole Buck in the front seat, and his Dad was snockered! He told us that he went to get a bottle to fortify himself for the hard job. Everytime he put the gun to Ole Bucks head and looked at his big brown trusting eyes, he couldn't pull the trigger. So he would take another drink and try again! This cycle went on until he finally looked at the dog sitting there wagging his tail and told him he was going to die of old age just like everybody else, loaded him up and sang him a song all the way home!

 

[lschultz]

I only shot two dogs in my life. One when I was a kid he got sick and he was looking me right in the eyes. Could not go to school that day. The other was a dog that was in heat and kept coming around after my lab.

 

[Elite1]

CF, After reading your story about having to put down a dog, it reminded me of this one, a little off topic... .

A friend of mine who is a farmer was opening up some irrigation ditch with his backhoe, when his neighbor who is a very wealthy rancher, and an avid hunter/safari type approaches him. He tells him that his old horse, Red is really getting lame, and he has to put him down. He tells him he hates to do it because the horse has been so good to him over the years, a fine cutting and roping horse, but he need to put him out of his misery. So anyway he asks my friend if he would open a big hole with his back hoe so he could bury the horse. My friend does, the rancher leads his horse over near the hole takes out a large caliber pistol and says good bye to his old horse and shoots him in the head. The horse goes down, next to the hole. My friend says to him hey lets walk back to the farm house and have a drink, I know you must feel terrible, I'll bury him up later. The two go walking down the dirt road back to the farm house, talking about what a great horse old red used to be, they get about a 1/4 mile down the road and all of a sudden Old Red comes trotting up next to them like nothing happened, even nuzzles up to the rancher... . they both just about ***** their pants!... ... . My friend says to him some hunter you are!

 

[78repowerwagon]

When I was in about 6th grade, my sister and I were waiting for the bus when two skunks ran by us. We took off running and screaming, so my dog charged and attacked the skunks. About that time dad is headed our way with the shotgun and crosses the street right in front of the bus, BOOM BOOM, drops one skunk. At the lab they confirm he has rabies.



Dad and the dog head back on the farm with the shotgun. About three hours later dad comes back with the dog and says he wont shoot him because he was just trying to protect us. We built a pen and after a couple of months he was free again. He died when I was in college.

 

[Black Cloud]

Our best friends or should I say the husband in the family took his heighbors dog for a road trip to work with him. They live in the city where everyone is right next to each other and his neighbors dog would constantly come to their house and dig in the garbage, crap in the yard, etc... My friend warned and told the neighbor to keep better control of his dog. So one morning on his way to work, about 30 miles from his house, the dog was in our friends yard and he coaxed the dog into his car and took him away and dropped it off. The neighbor asked if they had seen their dog and my friend answered maybe it ran away. Sometimes you have to do what it takes!

 

[mikel]

Originally posted by turbodiesel_ram

Our best friends or should I say the husband in the family took his heighbors dog for a road trip to work with him. They live in the city where everyone is right next to each other and his neighbors dog would constantly come to their house and dig in the garbage, crap in the yard, etc... My friend warned and told the neighbor to keep better control of his dog. So one morning on his way to work, about 30 miles from his house, the dog was in our friends yard and he coaxed the dog into his car and took him away and dropped it off. The neighbor asked if they had seen their dog and my friend answered maybe it ran away. Sometimes you have to do what it takes!

Now maybe it's just me, but it doesn't seem right to take the dog out into the country and drop it off to become a problem for whoever lives out there. It seems like all your friend did is turn his problem into someone else's problem, he didn't actually solve anything...



I'm sure someone else who lives out in the country and sees random "pets" show up at their house all the time will probably feel the same?



Just my . 02



Mike

 

[Black Cloud]

True, I live in the country and we see stray dogs all the time. I dont shot them or anything if they are not causing a problem, just lead them on their way. My friends story was quite amusing and it fit well with the other posts.