protector84
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Friday night I was going for a walk just because the weather happened to be nice and it was good exercise. I was open carrying at the time. Here in Phoenix and in fact all of Arizona if I'm not mistaken has a leash law. At one point on the walk, I hear a bunch of dogs barking and a bunch of bushes moving but nothing unusual as people keep their dogs tied up all the time so the poor things get bored and have nothing to do other than bark and jump around. What tripped me out though was about two houses past the bushes moving, I hear feet running toward me and as I turn around I see three mid-sized dogs charging right toward me. I immediately pulled the gun out of the holster, quickly turned around and aimed the gun at the center dog. All three dogs immediately came to a stop and then turned around and went back to where they came from. I couldn't see who they actually belonged to. I told a couple of friends about it and they felt that drawing on the dogs was an appropriate action.
While the dogs don't know what a gun is, they do recognize two things: one that you have a heavy object in your hand that you might hit them with and the fact that you confronted them putting them on the defensive. Instinctually the dogs realize that you are not an easy target as you demonstrated readiness for their attacks and a display of force sothe animals retreated and cancelled their attack. Another problem is if one of the dogs bites you, you have to do one of two things: either find the dog that bit you and have it tested for rabies or go get five rabies shots yourself. They recommended that if one of the dogs were to bite me to open fire on the dog that bit because it is not difficult to find and test a potentially rabid dog if it is dead on the ground in front of you. Second, dogs that go around biting people are public health and safety hazards and animal control will put them down. By drawing or shooting the gun, you are defending yourself against a potentially deadly threat and the owners are already in violation of leash laws. While I don't want to shoot an animal, I don't think I would get in any legal trouble. Animals that chase people do get impounded by animal control and the owners do get fined. Likewise, again, if a dog bites someone generally they get put down. I wish I could have found the owners because I would have had a nice little "chat" with them.
I had another incident a couple of months back where a pit bull was barking at me in a threatening manner but never actually chased me but it was unleashed. About a year ago I remember a case a few houses down from where my mom lives the police and animal control impounded two pit bulls who had been consistently getting out and chasing people. The owners were fined and I remember seeing the police removing the snaps from their gun holsters "just in case." I really don't understand why there is so damn much stupidity in this world.
Friday night I was going for a walk just because the weather happened to be nice and it was good exercise. I was open carrying at the time. Here in Phoenix and in fact all of Arizona if I'm not mistaken has a leash law. At one point on the walk, I hear a bunch of dogs barking and a bunch of bushes moving but nothing unusual as people keep their dogs tied up all the time so the poor things get bored and have nothing to do other than bark and jump around. What tripped me out though was about two houses past the bushes moving, I hear feet running toward me and as I turn around I see three mid-sized dogs charging right toward me. I immediately pulled the gun out of the holster, quickly turned around and aimed the gun at the center dog. All three dogs immediately came to a stop and then turned around and went back to where they came from. I couldn't see who they actually belonged to. I told a couple of friends about it and they felt that drawing on the dogs was an appropriate action.
While the dogs don't know what a gun is, they do recognize two things: one that you have a heavy object in your hand that you might hit them with and the fact that you confronted them putting them on the defensive. Instinctually the dogs realize that you are not an easy target as you demonstrated readiness for their attacks and a display of force sothe animals retreated and cancelled their attack. Another problem is if one of the dogs bites you, you have to do one of two things: either find the dog that bit you and have it tested for rabies or go get five rabies shots yourself. They recommended that if one of the dogs were to bite me to open fire on the dog that bit because it is not difficult to find and test a potentially rabid dog if it is dead on the ground in front of you. Second, dogs that go around biting people are public health and safety hazards and animal control will put them down. By drawing or shooting the gun, you are defending yourself against a potentially deadly threat and the owners are already in violation of leash laws. While I don't want to shoot an animal, I don't think I would get in any legal trouble. Animals that chase people do get impounded by animal control and the owners do get fined. Likewise, again, if a dog bites someone generally they get put down. I wish I could have found the owners because I would have had a nice little "chat" with them.
I had another incident a couple of months back where a pit bull was barking at me in a threatening manner but never actually chased me but it was unleashed. About a year ago I remember a case a few houses down from where my mom lives the police and animal control impounded two pit bulls who had been consistently getting out and chasing people. The owners were fined and I remember seeing the police removing the snaps from their gun holsters "just in case." I really don't understand why there is so damn much stupidity in this world.