Man shoots neighbor's dog after it lunges at delivery man in Lompico(CA)

mercurynews.com ^ | 29 June, 2010 | Jennifer Squires

[marktwain]

LOMPICO - A man shot and killed one of his neighbor's loose Rottweilers after the dog tried to attack a delivery man in the rural, mountainous neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, authorities reported. The propane truck driver drove down Knoll Way around 1:20 p.m. and stopped at the man's house to check the meter. As he walked back to his truck, the two dogs came at him. He jumped into the cab of his truck - yelling - and barely escaped injury, according to Lynn Miller, interim director of county Animal Services. The commotion caught the attention of the man who lives in the house. He ran outside with his pistol to help the propane truck driver but the dogs rushed at him, Miller said. "The owner (of the home) came out thinking something was wrong," Miller said. "He didn't have an opportunity to get back in the house." He fired two shots from a pistol at the dogs when they were about 4 feet from him. An unaltered female was hit and died; the second dog ran home, authorities said.

[marktwain]

Defense against animals is often neglected in the "gun control" debate.

[allmost]

Yes. It is.

[Artemis Webb]

All of this is the fault of the dogs owner. The person doesn’t have any business owning dogs.

[DJ MacWoW]

Absolutely right.

[PLMerite]

“Defense against animals is often neglected in the “gun control” debate.”

It is at best a secondary function. The primary function by far is the maintenance of liberty against the government. Everything else is a strawman for the left to knock down. If they leave you with anything it will be a 20 gauge with skeet ammo.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Animal Services officers had been to that house twice in the past because of loose, aggressive dogs and had made recommendations about preventing the dogs from roaming the neighborhood......

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The dog's owners will not be cited, but Miller said Animal Services officers asked the family to install in a spring-loaded gate that self-latches

And this is why we have to maintain the right to defend ourselves in this country. We can't expect those given the duty of protecting us to do their job.

[meatloaf]

The bad thing is he didn’t kill both dogs.

[donhunt]

.........And they all lived happily ever after.

[Valpal1]

Should hit them with a blasting stream of propane. That would have settled it real quick.

[cripplecreek]

I take my dog out to greet the gas man.

The last time he came I was in the shower and found the dog laying on his back and the gas man rubbing the dog’s belly out in the yard.

[benewton]

UPS gives our mutts cookies.

They’re much to lazy to roll over.

[cripplecreek]

I’ve got a warning sign about the dog on the gate but the dog is pretty unlikely to bite. The UPS man usually leaves packages outside the gate anyway but the gas man and the meter reader have to come in the yard.

[GnuHere]

Hi CC, that sounds like my fierce G Shep - altho he’s recovering from back surgery now, in the past when he lived in the back yard, he would assume any worker who arrived was there to play with him, and I would look out the window and see them cracking up!
Having said that, good on this neighbor!!

[cripplecreek]

I live in a good little dog town. Its rare to see a dog running loose other then the occasional escapee. My neighbor’s beagles have an area covering a couple of the neighboing yards that they won’t leave if they do get loose.

[martin_fierro]

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[sionnsar]

Lompico is a small and “different” community nestled a few miles back in a closed canyon. I used to go for early-morning hikes before work, but after once being surrounded by a dog pack of some 20-odd “pet” dogs (I knew where a few of them lived) I never went unarmed.

[DTogo]

In a couple months loose Rottweilers will be taking a back seat to unemployed Obamulans attacking delivery trucks.