Dog Health Questions: Dog Owners: Would you kill or injure a dog if if was your vital resort during a dog attack?

An acquaintance of mine yesterday who is a avid dog owner brought up the issue of dog cruelty. In agreement we both agreed we would never abuse an animal. However I said to him that in a situation were a unprovoked dog attacked me/family member/friend viciously and my VITAL/LAST (have to cap lock for the pet fundies) resort to stop the attack would be to injure or kill. I would do it in a heartbeat regardless if it was a stray or a domesticated and owned pet. I like animals however I REFUSE to stand there for the sake of animal empathy and get killed by a dog or disfigured if I can stop it, my life comes first and like ALL mammals including humans it does not matter how sweet someone claims there dog temperament to be the capacity to get angry and attack remains inherent. He called me a wicked ***** and gave me silent treatment for the rest of the lecture (didn't care).

I have had dogs in my extended family, have enjoyed them and have been exposed to others as well. I have never been attacked thankfully, but I've witnessed two 'well trained dogs' flip out unprovoked in my suburb simply because of temperament. In these scenarios it was these Jack n' Jill couples who would act like $3000 worth of dog training school should not have failed and finally owned up to what there animals did with excuses and alternative theories. (Jackass; you own a dog, that has two sets of carnivorous teeth that consists of mainly incisors and blunt Canines anything is possible)

Discuss.

PS: This is part 1 of my series of dog issues, soon to be posted and followed tonight with this issue maybe you can help me dog owners: "Can Dog Owner and dog be both attracted to the same woman?(Serious lol) to be posted immediately jump on 'My questions' I need some help with this sh*t.

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Your acquantance's position you described seems pretty unreasonable to me. What if it was a human attacker?

Btw, my answer would be the same if the victim were a stranger on the street who needed my help. And, by "family member/friend" I would include pets.

If one of my dogs was the attacker (not that it's even the most remote possibility), I'd consider it a favor if you would intervene, with deadly force if necessary.

And believe me, I love my dogs (in an entirely appropriate way of course). I believe "family pet" is an important role is a family. They're great dogs but end of the day, they are dogs. I think it's hard on a dog when the people treat it like they would a person, instead of a dog. I say, let a dog be a dog.

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• Yes. I would do it if it was someone else too. My sister was afraid to come over when my neighbors had pits so I would pocket a pistol and stand outside while she came in from her car.
  
  (My sister's daugher-in-law was attacked by a pit and so was her son-in-law's father. One of these particular pits attacked their kid and was put down because of it.)


• Oh god yes. I would do it to my own dog even if it was attacking someone else, for that matter. Unless it was provoked, but that's different.


• If a dog came up to attack me, my FIRST reaction would be to defend myself.
  
  To heck with what the dog thinks - this is survival.


• If the dog is damaging property or attacking a human or domestic animal you bet I would injure or kill it. If a dog goes after me or my dog on a walk, my dog gets out of the way and I kick the aggressive dog, hard, if it pushes the issue. If a dog is taking down my livestock, I would shoot it. One shot. To the head. Instant, humane, and stops the senseless pain and death of my animals.
  
  What your friend is proposing is that a aggressive dog has more rights to live and to live pain-free than the animal or human that he is attacking. I can't buy that logic. It's a dog. If a human were to attack me or another human my response would be the same - the minimal amount of trauma needed to make that attack stop. Sometimes that level of trauma would be lethal.
  
  If my dog were the aggressor my answer would also be the same. I love my dog, he is my buddy and we do everything together, but he is a DOG. I cannot say that his life or comfort trumps a toddler's face or a school child's life. Naturally, I do everything I can to make sure that my dog is never in that situation.


• i dont see how this question is really a dog issue more than just a curiosity. although there are ways to subdue an attacking dog without killing it. you just have to know what you are doing. and if you were out and about and a random dog attacked you i doubt you would be strong enough to kill it by hand.....and if it was a big dog it would most likely over power you. you have to know what you are doing in a situation like that


• I hope this never happens to me, but yes I would do everything I could do stop the attack by safely restraining the dog but if that couldn't happen.... well... yea I would choose my life over a dogs. That being said I would feel so guilty and probably would for a loonng time if I even won the fight.


• I would never injure a dog, whether my life was in danger or not. I understand that any and all dogs, no matter how docile or quiet, have the opacity to attack and possibly kill, I would never hurt them. The dog would never attack if it wasn't provoked. There is ALWAYS a reason a dog (or any animal) attacks, whether you know the reason it or not. No dog attacks just because of temperament.
  
  I have been attacked once before, lucky it was only a chihuahua, but it seemed like it was unprovoked. As I think back on it, I realized he was just being territorially. I did not harm him a bit, and if a dog does this, you never punish them. It's only instincts