Kind of like popping a kid's balloon blocking your view at a ball game. Confront the parent, not the kid. Shooting someone's dog, regardless of how poorly that someone takes care of the dog, seems weird to me.
You're right, we should just shoot the slobs with their overalls tucked in their boots who run their dogs on our property, but I have an adversion to prison. ;-)
You have no idea. Here these numbnuts run up and down the section line roads every weekend with a pack of big dogs with leather vests in their truck beds looking like war dogs out of Conan. Then they turn em loose like its 1925 Appalachia and they want to run all over your property that you have put food plots on to keep the game animals on your property b/c you are managing the herd for big bucks. They cut your fences to retrieve their ill gotten meat and leave ruts in your hayfields. They are disturbing (running) our livestock and game animals and that's all there is to it. Then even killed our domesticated pig that we kept as a pet two years ago. Dogs see pig and don't know if its feral or not.
You catch the bums on the game cameras but the sheriff won't do squat.
You have to show them whose boss and that you won't roll over on vigorously defending what's yours. They are like the terrorists. No sir, you are not in our shoes.
