I shot a neighbours dog a few years ago and became the most unpopular person in the neighbourhood.
The owners version was I saw her dog walking down the road, raced out the gate and shot it. That's what she told everyone that night on the phone.
The real version was her dog came up through our paddock, harassed a paddock full of calves, bit two calves, carried on from there to our house cause it heard my kids pet goat. It went round the house and killed the goat just as my son was coming out to feed it then growled at him, snapped at him and took off down the road when he threw the goats milk bottle at it. That was when I took off down the road with the .44-40 and shot it. Then I took it to her house and dumped it on the lawn.
She had been warned by me before that about her dog being on our land.
I now have zero tolerance for wandering dogs.
I keep my dogs under control, if other people can't do the same I put their dog in the permanent "lay down, now stay" position.
