Nearly had to shoot a dog last nite in my back yard we were sitting by the pond drinking a beer when the wife hollers "dog alert big dog"!
I jump up and run around there and yup a big hyper acting dog and 3 horses and some clown with ropes in his hand walking up all on my private property stomping all over my grass or whats left of it from the drought.
Long story short after a lot of cussing and hollering by me and my wife at the clown and the animals and even with a sheriffs deputy there they wouldn't get that dog under control we could see it wasn't a mean dog twords people at least he was just super hyper.
The clown with the lead ropes trying to catch the 3 horses kept saying the dog goes with the horses - I said none of them belong on my property get them the **** out of here now!
The horses walked all over my late season corn and ate some of it too oh I was smokin mad by then well clown finally caught all of them and headed walking them down the road. The last thing I said to the deputy was if that dog takes after one of my cats I will shoot it she nods.
Just like I feared I see him take off like a streak twords my back yard where my big white 25# half blind and half deaf house cat was sitting with us on the table out at the pond gazebo minding his own business and enjoying being outside with us while we are off dealing with this other mess had to leave him alone we were both worried sick about it he was completely unaware of the dog.
I take off too as fast as I can hollering at the top of my lungs and when I round the corner of the house I see him and he is after one of my outside cats so soon as I get a clean shot I skid to a stop and put a .45 round into the dirt in front of his nose.
He stops all startled and isn't sure what to do while I run up waving and hollering and make him go the other way away from the pond area and he leaves my yard then finally. I find out later the deputy picks it up on the road in the patrol car and then follows the clown down the road slowly to where they belong.
The deputy comes back later and asks if I want to press charges and I say no but the guy with the dog can thank his lucky stars for me being an animal lover and not shooting to kill when his dog chased my cat which we warned everybody over and over about and what would happen if he did and he did it I gave him a choice he made the right move and left.
Now the story would have been different if he would have not stopped and /or would have turned 20 feet behind me where my big white kitty was sitting minding his own business then it would have been lights out for the dog with no hesitation or feelings of compassion for animals just preservation of the weak and helpless like it should be done.
Poor old big happy kitty never even heard the pistol go off 50 feet away from him luckily and stayed put, the deputy heard it and the whole neighborhood did also and all the hollering and commotion what a mess deputy and the clown was probably relieved to see the dog out on the road alive.
I jump up and run around there and yup a big hyper acting dog and 3 horses and some clown with ropes in his hand walking up all on my private property stomping all over my grass or whats left of it from the drought.
Long story short after a lot of cussing and hollering by me and my wife at the clown and the animals and even with a sheriffs deputy there they wouldn't get that dog under control we could see it wasn't a mean dog twords people at least he was just super hyper.
The clown with the lead ropes trying to catch the 3 horses kept saying the dog goes with the horses - I said none of them belong on my property get them the **** out of here now!
The horses walked all over my late season corn and ate some of it too oh I was smokin mad by then well clown finally caught all of them and headed walking them down the road. The last thing I said to the deputy was if that dog takes after one of my cats I will shoot it she nods.
Just like I feared I see him take off like a streak twords my back yard where my big white 25# half blind and half deaf house cat was sitting with us on the table out at the pond gazebo minding his own business and enjoying being outside with us while we are off dealing with this other mess had to leave him alone we were both worried sick about it he was completely unaware of the dog.
I take off too as fast as I can hollering at the top of my lungs and when I round the corner of the house I see him and he is after one of my outside cats so soon as I get a clean shot I skid to a stop and put a .45 round into the dirt in front of his nose.
He stops all startled and isn't sure what to do while I run up waving and hollering and make him go the other way away from the pond area and he leaves my yard then finally. I find out later the deputy picks it up on the road in the patrol car and then follows the clown down the road slowly to where they belong.
The deputy comes back later and asks if I want to press charges and I say no but the guy with the dog can thank his lucky stars for me being an animal lover and not shooting to kill when his dog chased my cat which we warned everybody over and over about and what would happen if he did and he did it I gave him a choice he made the right move and left.
Now the story would have been different if he would have not stopped and /or would have turned 20 feet behind me where my big white kitty was sitting minding his own business then it would have been lights out for the dog with no hesitation or feelings of compassion for animals just preservation of the weak and helpless like it should be done.
Poor old big happy kitty never even heard the pistol go off 50 feet away from him luckily and stayed put, the deputy heard it and the whole neighborhood did also and all the hollering and commotion what a mess deputy and the clown was probably relieved to see the dog out on the road alive.
