I do wonder if there had been signs before that the door wasn’t sufficient to hold those particular dogs? Or did they somehow sense a greater threat from this one visitor?

I have had many dogs, most are territorial enough to bark and warn strangers away. Some aren’t even that aggressive, they will bark and then lick you to death. Shit, even UPS isn’t afraid to step out of their vans at my place. Currently we have a saddle dog, yeah, I know, but he is sweet even if he is expensive to feed. I’m thinking about roping off him this spring if I can get in shape.

Seriously, I had a dog that I really liked, and one who liked everybody in the family. Unfortunately we lived near a school where very small children walked by everyday. I had several close calls keeping him from eating those children. I couldn’t find him a home where he wasnt’ exposed to strangers, I couldn’t train him out of it. And he defeated every restraint system I tried. I shot him.

I didn’t like it. But I did it. He needed a damn good killin’. I really liked the damn dog, but not enough to let him kill a five or six year old child.

Having said that, I may have given him more leeway as regards adults, but if he had attacked one, the outcome would have been the same.

I didn’t make a judgment based on their killing of the other dog, because as you said, I don’t know how that went down. The 15 year old, unless I knew for sure he was mistreating the dogs and earned a biting, the outcome would have been the same. Not knowing how that went down, I can’t say for sure. But I know they broke through the door and attacked. ergo, they needed killing.

Look, if you show up on my doorstep to kill my dogs, well I ain’t gonna be happy and I ain’t gonna help you.