The three S's of dogs in rural areas:

1) Shoot
2) Shovel
3) Shut up

I had an 80 year old neighbor that claimed he had killed over 100 dogs on his trap line.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps