The Academic Impostor Behind the Pit Bull Hysteria

[Sunlei]

34. I know what you mean! My friend has some cattle- dogs from the area come on his property & chase

the cattle. The dogs bite, ripped their ears, ripped the tails off a couple of the young cattle.<show cattle now ruined for shows. Dogs killed a few of them.

These are off lead dogs from a close neighborhood. Well fed, some have collars on. Small groups-3 or 4 stray dogs, mostly labs type mixes and always a smaller terrier type mix having their pack-'fun' chasing and biting livestock. dogs never have ID tags.

I agree with you, people need to keep their animals on a leash or contained in their home/ yard properly. It's not the breed, the problem is the idiot owners. The law should require a microchip so every stray can be traced to its owner.

I suggest carry some 'bear spray' when you walk your dog. That stuff works very well against any threat. Just be sure of the wind direction My friend uses both a gun and dog traps to get rid of the packs. He turns the caught dogs into animal control.

3 times over the past 4 years they have had to deal with dog packs. No attacks for 6 months now, we're positive the 'idiot owners' will have more new dogs to allow to run stray soon.