Also we don’t know if the guy had reasonable control over his dog. Also were any warnings given about the dog being in the guy’s yard.
I live in a dog town and people here have pretty good control of their dogs but dogs do get loose on occasion. However we don’t shoot them at the first opportunity. If there’s a problem its taken up with the owners.
Well, the article says that they were visiting relatives, which could lead to the assumption that this dog had never been there before, so it seems strange that this guy would shoot a dog the first time he ever saw it. Does he shoot all dogs that are in his yard? Maybe there was some friction between him and the relatives that were visited prior to this? Either way, it just doesn’t seem right that someone would just shoot a dog first and not even yell at it to leave, or yell over to the neighbors to get their dog out of his yard. I can also believe that some people can become as emotionally attached to their dog, as they would their child.