I feel guilt. Was forced to use ccw on an animal.

It's been a few hours. My ears are still ringing. I'm going to delete this soon but i just wanted to vent to someone. I never thought I would ever use it. I Heard screaming outside calling for help at my apartment complex, my wife had just left for work a few minutes prior which led me to believe it was them which double worried me. After running outside, infront of my door was a younger lady who had a pitbull attached to her arm which had blood everywhere and her stin tore open to the bone. It wasn't my wife but i still had to help. My service animal had followed me outside and was watching from the door (trying nott o get involved) and as soon as I kicked the dog off her, it changed target to my dog which had noticed and ran away back inside my apartment. The thing is, the pitbull had chased them inside my apartment before i could do anything else. My dog had hid under the bed and was screaming as the pitbull tried to go for her throat and After yelling and screaming after it to scare it off I finally had to pull the trigger. I hesitated after the first shot which had hit dead center of it's back (used the laser i had set up prior, loaded holopoints) thinking that would be enough to scare it away and hopefully it would live but it seemed even more pissed off and started to attack me instead. Had to shoot 4 more times as it was coming after me in the hallway. Hit all 5 shots dead mass, no bullet traveled through and damaged anything else even in the high speed it was taking place. I feel torn apart having took the life of someone's pet but i had no choice and had to protect my own animals. It no doubt would have killed my animal as she refuses to fight anything just like me. The worst part was, I was filming another video for voice acting YouTube and everything audio wise was caught on it. I kept listening to it to expect it to change but it doesn't. The owner of the pit was the one being attacked by it and they said they don't know why they went crazy. It was vaccinated for rabies. The dog died in my hallway and my service animal has been mentally effected by it.. They've been acting out verbally towards police and everyone who has to come in to our apartment complex today which they never have done before ever.I hope it's just stress related and i can help them calm down over the next day or two. It's no question the firearm saved my animal and me from injury as it was a very very large pit mix. But it still is burned into my mindedit: Here is the audio. Nsfw. Was voice acting at the time it was happening. I was scared and was yelling as loud as I could to scare it off. It didn't work unfortunately. Like I said Earlier, the first round hitting it did nothing but turn it's attention to me instead. The next two was coming down the hallway at me where it fell over but it got right back up again and started running again at me again. The next two were for stopping the target. I was using a bodyguard .380 ACP. might go to 9mm after this.https://ift.tt/RHf3eaF via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/CnujF5t