I really need a visual flow chart of this.

Her dog didn’t even sustain any damage though? She just took her home? How violently was she being attacked?

Did she have to shoot the dog to kill? Why couldn’t she aim at the paw or something?

Im sure it was a very intense moment and I don’t know what she must have felt like, but there are lots of details missing. All we hear is that a pit bull violently attacked this dog, that didn’t even need medical attention after?

I don’t disagree that the other owner should have had better control of their dog, but I doubt that it’s so black and white.

She is trained, she’s been attacked and abused before I rescued her. But thanks for the advice!

Like I said, it’s not my dog attacking someone that worries me — she is always in a muzzle and I have full control of her on the leash. I’m worried that someone will get trigger happy just seeing an aggressive dog bark.

I don’t bring my dog around others, but we’ve had unleashed dogs with zero recall run up at us causing her to freak out. Again, she won’t do any damage because she’s in a muzzle, but how is the other person supposed to see that if they’re farther away yelling at their dog with zero recall to come back?

Guns aren’t the solution here, it’s the dog owners who don’t understand how dogs work.

How am I a problem when I literally said my dog is always in a muzzle and I have full control of her?

I’m not saying what happened was a knee jerk reaction! I was pointing out that a lot of people in comments are walking their dogs and carrying, do they have the same judgement and aim as an fbi agent?

I was raised around shepherds, my dog is a rescue who was given up a bunch of times before I saved her at 4 years old.

She’s a fantastic dog at home, very well trained, gets along perfectly with our other puppy. I knew I wanted a German shepherd, and I wasn’t about to buy one from a puppy mill and I have the experience to not let a couple of issues bother me.

She’s just leash aggressive which is a small trade off compared to all the good things she brings into my life.

Like I said, I know what her triggers are and she’s always in a muzzle, because believe it or not, the only time we had a close call was when someone’s off leash dog ran at us and the other owner had no recall.

I mean it’s just the comments I’m reading here.

I’m well aware of my dogs triggers and don’t take her around other dogs.

I’m just saying that there is such a large amount of people who are not FBI trained to handle weapons proclaiming that they carry when they walk their dogs and aren’t afraid to use it against an aggressive animal. I can see someone not waiting until anything even happened to use their gun.

The easiest way to prevent these things from happening is to know your dog and their triggers, but also just avoid letting dogs on leashes greet each other. This is why most attacks happen.

What I hate is the precedent it sets here.

I have an aggressive German shepherd, she never leaves the house without a muzzle, but she’s got a loud bark and I can see someone having a knee jerk reaction and shooting her just because she’s acting out even if I have full control of her.