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skip62 wrote:

Jumping Frog wrote:When you consider dealing with the issue of being "at fault", please remember that it is the dog owner's fault. As a dog owner, I have the responsibility to keep my dogs safe and well-cared for. Part of keeping them safe means keeping them under control. You being forced to shoot the dogs is simply a natural consequence of the owner's negligent care of the dogs.

Yes, and we've have seen them have problems controllfing the dogs before, but I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, so I never said anything. There is a leash law in my city, and I've never seen these dogs on a leash. The mastif didn't have a collar on to grab hold of, and he was slippery when trying to get him under control during the first attack. It was just bad.

I would do again, I know I did the right thing, but it still sucks. I've never lived in fear, but now I worry about going outside. The others live 2 doors down. I fear retaliation, at least as a civil suite, so if you know of any lawyers for this type of thing, I welcome the recommendations.

I know this my first post, but i've learked quite awhile.

Thank you again.

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think you have much to worry about regarding a civil suit. If the investigating police said you did the right thing which is clearly covered in Texas law, I doubt any lawyer would take a case like the one you described, especially with its neighborhood history, on contingency.

Very few people will pay lots of their own money for a case they would most likely lose.

skip62 wrote:Need prayers, I did everything I could not to shoot them, but they were completely out of the owners control for the second time, and visiously attacking my brothers dog Tucker. Tucker will be alright, but he several spots with stitches, don't know about the other dogs. I didn't want to shoot them, but didn't feel I had choice. I'm not dealing with any aspect of it very well. The police only filed an incident report, because they said there was no criminal activity. The 3 officers that talked to me said I had to do it. I did have an independent witness neighbor that saw the second attack and he said I waited a lot longer than he would have. Praise God for another witness. He said he's called the police about those dogs several times.

Anyway, thank you for the prayers.

Consider how you would have felt if you hadn't acted and instead you had watched your brother's dog killed when you knew you had the power to stop it.

Some situations, like this one, offer choices only between really bad and much worse.

Given the information provided, you did the right thing and took the best course of action available to you at the time.

Only good people who are forced to use violence in defense of themselves or others feel badly about it.

The emotional aftermath of a shooting can be rough, but understanding what is happening and why can help you get through it much more quickly and emerge stronger and wiser at the end. If you'd like to get a better handle on why you feel as you do even though you did what was right, you might want to pick up a copy of Col. Dave Grossman's outstanding book "On Combat."

My thoughts and prayers are with you as you work your way through this experience.