I've had an experience with dogs that needed to be shot. Two years ago, prior to getting my cwp, I was riding a bicycle when two 70 pound chow/pit mix dogs decided it was time for a leg of Tom meal. One I killed by a very very lucky but well placed kick to the back of the head, one chomped on my thigh for what seemed like an hour and a half. If I would have been carrying, there would have been 2 dead dogs. When the county police came to interview me he said, 'I bet you wish you would have had a gun with you.' Don't leave home without it now. Lots of feral dogs, hogs, coyote and bear in my area....and an occasionaly BG too.