CandiCame
Rocket Grunt
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Just read the other post. If I did not know anything about you, didn't know your attitude, I would have kinda been able to see where you were coming from. I would have thought, "Oh, this guy doesn't know anything about dogs by never having owned one. He thought that it peed on his car as a sign of ownership, like they do on the TV."
However, having known you and reading it now, I gotta say that rather then sending your kid inside and calling animal control like a normal person, since the dog, to be off leash in that neighborhood, and to have the guy go door-to-door and whatnot, the other folk most likely knew him. If they'd called before, animal control would have taken the dog. I've had to call animal control on dogs before. You'd have had to spend those additional few minutes with your client inside. If they hadn't, then you would have been overreacting, and could have gotten the owner to pay to clean your car, because you had witnesses. Instead, you chose to shoot a dog.
So... it sounds kinda like you wanted to shoot something. You didn't even say he growled. He pissed and "tensed up". Dogs tense and piss when they're scared, LJ. You shot because it was a big dog and you were scared of it, even though it didn't do anything but piss. I can understand getting pissed, I love Dobermans and I've seen many of them piss- their bladders are HUGE and I'm sure it made a giant mess. But retconning it to try and make it look like you were saving your family is pretty low.
I am in no way shocked by that behavior from you, though.
I've never been bitten by a dog, not even the dogs that are tied up by their owners because they bite everyone. I don't know why I've been so lucky. But I do know when a dog is going to bite, and I know to get away from it.
However, having known you and reading it now, I gotta say that rather then sending your kid inside and calling animal control like a normal person, since the dog, to be off leash in that neighborhood, and to have the guy go door-to-door and whatnot, the other folk most likely knew him. If they'd called before, animal control would have taken the dog. I've had to call animal control on dogs before. You'd have had to spend those additional few minutes with your client inside. If they hadn't, then you would have been overreacting, and could have gotten the owner to pay to clean your car, because you had witnesses. Instead, you chose to shoot a dog.
So... it sounds kinda like you wanted to shoot something. You didn't even say he growled. He pissed and "tensed up". Dogs tense and piss when they're scared, LJ. You shot because it was a big dog and you were scared of it, even though it didn't do anything but piss. I can understand getting pissed, I love Dobermans and I've seen many of them piss- their bladders are HUGE and I'm sure it made a giant mess. But retconning it to try and make it look like you were saving your family is pretty low.
I am in no way shocked by that behavior from you, though.
I've never been bitten by a dog, not even the dogs that are tied up by their owners because they bite everyone. I don't know why I've been so lucky. But I do know when a dog is going to bite, and I know to get away from it.