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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The dogs were 20 yards away from their owners and jumping on people unknown to them.  The dogs should not have been off leash regardless but it is extra egregious that the women clearly didn't have their dogs under voice control since they couldn't call them off.  A 10 month old dog is almost full size at that point so the owner sees "puppy" and others see "adult dog".  I feel awful for the dog but not the woman.[/quote]

People in this area have an irrational fear of black labs.  I don't understand it, but since adopting a rescue black lab, we have discovered it.

Anyone with any knowledge at all of labs, or most large breed dogs, could look at a 10-month old almost-full-size puppy and see "puppy".  This man was crazy.  It's a bizarre cold thing to do, shoot a dog in front of the owner.  I wonder how long his SO will stay with him after this.
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Again, the dogs were at least 20 yards away from the owners, off leash, and not under voice command.  The woman herself acknowledges the man asked "once, maybe twice" to call off the dogs (so I'm gonna go ahead and say he was asking her multiple times since she's trying to make herself look good and is going to underestimate) and she failed to do so or was unable to do so.  The police agree that the dogs were behaving aggressively and the man was justified.  I really don't believe this woman's account that her dog was a perfect angel, innocent of all wrong doing.  So again, I feel bad for the dog but not the owner.  Her behavior was atrocious and endangered her dog to the point that the dog is now dead.

I have two dogs of my own and live in a community where plenty of the people are afraid of dogs (it's a large immigrant population and many of them aren't coming from cultures where dogs are common pets).  I can either a) acknowledge that plenty of people in my community are afraid of my dogs regardless of my dogs' behavior and make sure to give people a wide berth when walking my dogs or b) declare that their fear of my dogs is irrational, not give them space or a wide berth and endanger everybody by giving people a reason to react out of fear by forcing them to interact with my dogs when they don't want to.  I choose A and I gotta say, it's working out pretty freakin well for everyone so far.  [/quote]

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