Tl;DR towards the bottom but I recommend at least skimming the post.I am not necessarily asking for legal advice, more so what you guys would have done in this situation.For context, my dog is an 8 month old 25 pound mini golden doodle. Not exactly a forced to be reckoned with lol. Shes a great dog, listens well and is very healthy and playful. Super friendly and honestly annoyingly submissive around other dogs that are her size or larger. We are in Michigan.One my street is a 40 year old alcoholic who lives in his mothers house who owns two pit bulls (I know this probably sounds like a bad area, its actually very nice, this guy just sucks). This dudes dogs have attacked each other to the point of him having to ask other for help while just walking both of them together (they would bite each others necks to the point of almost killing one another). One of his dogs, the one that later attacks mine, has also killed a dog on this same street. He paid off the owner after getting taken to court.The incident happened several days ago, only a couple months after the pitbull had killed that dog on the same street. One of my family members was playing with my dog, who I will call "Z" for this story, on the side of my house, without a leash. Z can see the street from this location, and regularly plays here with out a leash with no problems even when seeing other dogs. For some reason, when seeing the pitbull being walked by the weird owner, she runs to the street. My family member follows her and when she goes up to the dog, nothing happens immediately, but after a couple seconds, and once my family member has caught up to her, the pitbull gets out of its collar and attacks. Z being 25 pounds of cuddly fluff, immediately is pinned on the ground by the neck by the pitbull. My family member immediately starts screaming and rushes to try to pull the pitbull off of Z. My family member is a 50 year old woman, so not to be rude, but she really didn't have the strength to do much. Luckily my neighbors were out, who are 35 year old men, who sprinted to intervene. The pitbull owner was bear hugging his dog, likely to stop it from shaking Z around and breaking her neck. Both my family member and one of the neighbors was bit badly by the pitbull while trying to get it off my dog.After calling the police and talking with animal control, from the surface my dog is at fault for running at the pitbull, but the information about it getting out of its leash and having previously attacked and killed other dogs on the street may help in pressing legal action.TL;DR - I recommend reading the whole thing if you can but my small dog ran to the street where a pitbull that has killed other dogs in the neighborhood was, the pitbull got out of his leash and attacked my dogMy question: if I was there, which I unfortunately wasn't, would I have been able to shoot that pitbull in the street? Or since my dog had ran to it, would I be in legal trouble? Or in the moment should I have just done it anyway and worry about the legal battle later? Because that's what I think I would have done.I understand this is long and if you have any context questions please ask, I have been playing the scenario over and over in my head as to what would I have done if I was the one following my dog to the street. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/2AH1xHf
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