Originally Posted by plumberroy

That statement shows you have no idea the kind of animals we are talking about . And people like you are the reason I took it to the feral dogs. By the time you picked up the second rock one of the 4-5 others around you would be chewing on you. As much as the can't we all just get along/ its just a poor little critter types annoy me . I still don't want to see them hurt.
By the way I never blame an animal for being what it is . I would much rather shoot the low life scum that gets the "cute little puppy or kitty " then decides they don't want the responsibility so they abandon the animal in the country instead of finding it a home or having it humanely put down . But shooting the cause of the problem isn't legal
Roy

Originally Posted by Joe Minton

1959 near Alamogordo NM:
Nine (as best I can remember) feral dogs attacked me a couple of miles outside of Alamogordo NM, in the desert. "Mom" was the boss and Mom seemed to decide that I was to be their next meal. They spread out to flank me and 'she' came at me directly, vigorously and with obvious intent. I shot her, shot her 'lieutenant', then turned and shot the 'closer'. The others, deprived of their leader(s) and technique, turned and ran away. I wounded and probably killed at least two and probably three more.

I called the sheriff and the Game Warden, whom I knew. It turned out that this pack was in the habit of killing folk's dogs & cats. No one had been directly assaulted before.
It was sad but better than losing some child to hungry and sadly desperate dogs. I can still 'see' what happened; what I saw, what I did, and, well ---why I had to do it. Just another nightmare.

Joe