Jury was instructed and defense was not allowed to use self defense in a case of man verses dog. Your thoughts?
Jury was instructed and defense was not allowed to use self defense in a case of man verses dog. Your thoughts?
Man waling his neighboor hood is met in the street by a dog and nearly bitten(contact was made but bite avoided), dog was on a long cable tethered to a tree and extended 6.5 ft into the street. Person, armed permit holder, continues walk home and decides to return to talk to home owner about shortening the dogs leash. All lights on, 2 cars in drive way and garage door up, Man rings door bell, knocks on door(dog approches, barking) but no answer.(there more) but as man tries to enter his vehicle to leave dog approches fast enough to be threat of attack. 2 shots fired. Man charged and convicted by jury of his "peers". D felony and A misdmeanor.
Man waling his neighboor hood is met in the street by a dog and nearly bitten(contact was made but bite avoided), dog was on a long cable tethered to a tree and extended 6.5 ft into the street. Person, armed permit holder, continues walk home and decides to return to talk to home owner about shortening the dogs leash. All lights on, 2 cars in drive way and garage door up, Man rings door bell, knocks on door(dog approches, barking) but no answer.(there more) but as man tries to enter his vehicle to leave dog approches fast enough to be threat of attack. 2 shots fired. Man charged and convicted by jury of his "peers". D felony and A misdmeanor.
What about man vs cat, man vs bear, man vs lion, man vs goat... ?
If you are attacked by any animal (humans included) you are allowed to defend yourself and potentially use deadly force to do so, if your life is in danger.
There is no animal off limit.
I don't know which case you're talking about, but I'll say this much...
One day last week, I was taking boxes out to a burn pile behind work and there was a guy nearish there with two dogs. One of a breed I didn't know and one of a pit. They were not leashed and they were not under his control by any means. He was yelling at them to stay put and they were trotting my direction regardless. The more he yelled at them to come back and kept emphatically pointing at the ground yelling "HERE!!", the more they ignored him. One did jump on me, and even though at that time I sensed it wasn't intending anything more than trying to be playful and too curious, I yelled at the guy that if it moved to bite me I was going to bite back. I think it was pretty clear what I meant since I was OCing that day.
In retrospect, I gave too much leeway and too much trust in an animal I didn't know and it won't happen again.
While it is ABSOLUTELY unacceptable on the owner's part that he hasn't trained his dogs with better manners(or even just trained them at all for that matter), I couldn't shoot a dog that wasn't acting aggressive towards me.
Hand on gun? Yes...But I'm not drawing until it's growling and ready to lunge.
That pretty much sums it up, except that I did not have my hand on my gun, and if there is a next time, I will. I'm not looking for a reason to shoot ANY critter (four legged, or two). But if I think I'm about to be mauled...I will, in fact, "bite back".