ThomasT said:I shot just behind the left foreleg for a heart shot same as on a deer or other game. Do you really think I shot some dog in the ass 5 times? Wrong round, wrong bullet. The point was to the OP that for animal control there are better guns and rounds than the 45acp with FMJ bullets loaded in it.
And with that I am through in this thread. If you are going to shoot an animal do it in a way it doesn't suffer.
A heart shot isn't as humane as you think it is. Heart shots are ultimately fatal, but they're a far cry from an instant or painless death. A .45 to the brain on the other hand, would have settled things faster and more humanely.
As others have mentioned previously in this thread, even deer whose hearts have practically exploded after being stuck by high powered rifle rounds can still run quite a distance before the wound actually incapacitates them.
I'm terribly sorry for what you had to go through, but you'll feel much better about it if you accept the fact that the cartridge you chose wasn't to blame. You could have shot that dog in the exact same spot with anything and the result would have been the same.
So if you truly advocate shooting animals in such a way as to minimize their suffering, then you need to accept that shooting an animal in the heart is counterproductive to that goal.