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vz3s5h

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Yesterday a friend of mine was attached by a pit bull that broke through the back window of a van in a grocery store parking lot. Luckily he was able to fend it off with his recently purchased case of bud light long enough to get into the back of his pickup. His only casualty was 3 cans. A store employ was bitten on the knee.
The question is . Does anyone know if in Michigan, if he were carrying, would he have been within his rights to shoot the dog?
 
First off, how does your friend know it was a Pit Bull? Unless you know for a fact it was a pit try saying "dog". That kinda statement just enforces ignorant labels and breed discrimination. Second, your friend was able to escape without shooting, why would he have needed to shoot the dog if there other means? Postal workers encounter dogs as do animal control officers without having to shoot. You are also telling one side of the story, not a very descriptive one at that. What was the cause of the dog attacking? Did he call animal control or try and warn the employee before he was bitten? I don't know Michigan law, but I have been attacked and wondering if I could legally shoot the dog was not an after thought. If his life or someone else's life was truly in danger, I doubt anyone would be opposed if that was the only option to survive.

This is my opinion on your post. I am sure it didn't answer your question.
 
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Oh a dogs attacking me? I've got a loaded firearm? Bang. Bang.
I'll argue it on a national level in court regardless of prosecution. I'm an American. I don't need any more reason than that to carry a loaded firearm if I desire to.
 
A pit bull attacked somebody???? Say it isnt so!! Who would have heard of such a thing? I thought they were just genuine nice dogs, not violent animals who constantly make the news for killing babies and attacking people....

I'd shoot it. The decision to not shoot may mean serious bodily injury or death to you.
 
I call BS!!!

You need to put the movie "Cujo" away and come back into the real world. (Pit Bulls are other dogs don't break into vans through closed windows here.)

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If a dog was strong enough to knock the back window out of a van and head in my direction, it would be shot.
 
Deserteagle said:
A pit bull attacked somebody???? Say it isnt so!! Who would have heard of such a thing? I thought they were just genuine nice dogs, not violent animals who constantly make the news for killing babies and attacking people....

I'd shoot it. The decision to not shoot may mean serious bodily injury or death to you.
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Kind of like all those cops that make the news? And all those evil guns that just jump up and shoot people themselves?

Just4Fun23 said:
First off, how does your friend know it was a Pit Bull? Unless you know for a fact it was a pit try saying "dog". That kinda statement just enforces ignorant labels and breed discrimination. Second, your friend was able to escape without shooting, why would he have needed to shoot the dog if there other means? Postal workers encounter dogs as do animal control officers without having to shoot. You are also telling one side of the story, not a very descriptive one at that. What was the cause of the dog attacking? Did he call animal control or try and warn the employee before he was bitten? I don't know Michigan law, but I have been attacked and wondering if I could legally shoot the dog was not an after thought. If his life or someone else's life was truly in danger, I doubt anyone would be opposed if that was the only option to survive.

This is my opinion on your post. I am sure it didn't answer your question.
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OMFG you are awesome.
 
Anything with a square head seems to be categorized as a "pit bull" these days. I've seen news reports of "pit bull" attacks child but the dog they show on tv being hauled away is a buff black lab.

Many people mistake the dog in my current avatar is a "pit bull" when he is in fact an American bulldog, but hey let's just call it a pit bull. Lol

Enough dog politics..... I will shoot any dog that endangers the life of myself or loved ones.... Even my own.
 
You are right pits do get a bad rap I should have left it at dog.
He did warn the worker and the police & animal controls were called. The owner got there before they did and tried to leave with the dog first. But there were also some local fire men there that made sore he did not leave.
 
vz3s5h said:
You are right pits do get a bad rap I should have left it at dog.
He did warn the worker and the police & animal controls were called. The owner got there before they did and tried to leave with the dog first. But there were also some local fire men there that made sore he did not leave.
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So the dog breed was unknown? Or that pits have an unjust bad reputation?
 
I believe my friend had it right but I was not there. But pits have a bad enough reputation with out me adding to it. I have had two dogs.both mutts a pit shepherd mix & a shepherd rot mix. Both were great dogs.
 
vz3s5h said:
I believe my friend had it right but I was not there. But pits have a bad enough reputation with out me adding to it. I have had two dogs.both mutts a pit shepherd mix & a shepherd rot mix. Both were great dogs.
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No offense to you or your friend, but from my experience and the National Canine Research Council's experience, the majority of pitbull stories were actually not pitbulls. Maybe he was right, but since it's unknown, I'm going to have to think that it's just like every other dog story that needs something to make it "better."
 
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