The responses prior to my posting that were extremely heated, the only thing I could figure was that people were responding to the idea that he was going to shoot the dog for simply barking at him through the door.joab said:Perhaps you can show us exactly which post accuses him of planning to shoot through the door
But if you want to see a post that said he WAS implying that he would shoot through the door, here it is. I posted that: "There wasn't so much as the implication that he even considered the idea of shooting it through the door." and got this response:
I guess at this point, I should ask you to explain why you responded this way if you believed my statement was correct.joab said:Yes there was
As for the rest of your objections:
If someone is attacked by your dog on your doorstep because you fail to restrain it you are liable for the person's injuries and the person is certainly within his rights to use whatever force is necessary to defend himself. Taht applies even if the person accidentally got the wrong address. The only exception would be if your property was posted clearly and the access to your front doorstep is restricted to the point that the person would obviously have to trespass in order to get there. That was certainly not the case in this situation.
This is a perfect example of a strawman fallacy. The original post was clear to me an others as being a question about the hypothetical situation in which the dog escaped. Subsequent posts made that even more clear. You have created a correct argument but it is addressing your strawman, not the situation as it is being discussed.It is perfectly acceptable for my dog to react to that unexpected stranger at the door the same perfectly acceptable way this dog reacted to an unexpected stranger at the door
This is still arguing based on the false impressions that:It is your responsibility to insure that you are at the correct address, it's really not that hard
1. It's ok for a dog to attack someone because they knock on the wrong door.
2. That the OP was worried about the dog barking as opposed to what would happen if it came through the door.
The bottom line is that there are people here who simply can NOT respond rationally to comments, either positive or negative about dog breeds. Fortunately, this is not a dog breed forum so it's simplest to circumvent the predictable circus by deleting/editing the off topic remarks.Maybe I missed some uncivil posts on this thread while I was gone, but I thought the references to that particular breed were very relevant to this thread. We had special training on my job regarding that breed,
That would be a topic for another thread since it's already been establish that this thread is not about shooting a barking dog through a door.He approached the front door where a Yellow lab was barking, he then drew his sidearm and shot three times.
I see a concerted effort here on the part of some to maintain a righteous indignation. The problem is that the assumptions on which that indignation is founded are false. The OP has already stated categorically that the issue wasn't a barking dog, but rather what would have happened if that dog had escaped and attacked.