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chasfm11 wrote:

philip964 wrote:I would carry pepper spray, no offense, but shoot my dog and I might decide my life for yours would be a fair trade.

I hope you don't take offense about what I have said, but I care a great deal about my dog.

..and I suspect that you would not be one of those who allowed your dog to bite someone who was just passing by. I love my dogs, too, but it is my responsibility to control them. There is absolutely no excuse for someone who has a dog out in public that will be bite and not having the owner control it.

This isn't about dogs...it is about owners.

I agree that the owner should control the dogs. However, brown stuff happens. You might have the dog in your fenced backyard with the gate locked. Someone, a visitor, the gas guy, water guy, etc could come into your yard while you are away and leave the gate open or unlocked. I had a golden retriever that could open the gate on the backyard fence. I had to put a slide lock on the outside of the fence to keep him from opening the gate. If someone came into the backyard and failed to close the outside lock, he could be a mile away before we even noticed. In the case of my dog the worse you could get was slobber all over you. He was very friendly. Many times we got a call from a neighbor that had found him running around. Bottom line, the owner could have done everything right and the dog still got loose.

I would not be shooting dogs just because they are coming after my bike. Get a bottle of pepper spray to get rid of those pesky dogs rather than shoot them. Just get off the bike, use the bike as a barrier between you and the dog and spray the sucker with the pepper spray. Start shooting at dogs and you could get in a heap of trouble. Plus the dog owner might have a gun of his own and might shoot back for you killing his dog. Just my $0.02