We do. That's why the dog is inside away from our front yard. I respect his fear. I just don't think a cop has any business shooting a family dog to death. If a cop has the same fear of a Golden Retriever as a Pit Bull, he needs a desk job.
I took it a step further.
The back yard where the dogs run is totally separate from the front yard where delivery people come in.
[mostly because too many of the delivery people fail to comprehend what a “close the gate” means, despite the sign *on* the gate telling them to do _just that_ and my dogs’ safety is paramount]
If, in some bizarre alternate universe, a trigger happy cop would come here, he’d have to break through a locked back gate and enter a secured back yard to shoot my dogs.
Things could get ugly really fast, if that ever happens.