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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oiler104" data-source="post: 2107707" data-attributes="member: 9491"><p>I have four dogs and yes, they are like children to me. I do my very best to keep them on my 5 acres just outside the city limits of Tulsa. I have a underground fence that shocks them if they cross it.  Two of them will sometimes cross it if the motivation is greater than the fear of the shock such as a squirrel or rabbit. Once outside the fence, they decide to go on an adventure rather than take the shock to come home. One time they were gone overnight and I was unable to sleep. I drove the neighborhood several times looking for them. The next morning I called the local vet and a lady had taken them in that lived five miles from me and posted a note at the vet. They had crossed several properties on their adventure and I am so glad no one shot them just for being on their property. Dogs do not understand property lines. To me just shooting a dog that happens to wander on someone's property would be like shooting a child that happed to climb a fence crossing a property. My dogs are not aggressive. They may bark at a cat or dog because they have been isolated on my property and not used to other animals. I have trained them to stay away from my tractor, cars and delivery trucks with firecrackers and it works very well. If they hear a shot they run to the house. Now like I said they are like children to me and if I found out that someone shot them for fun it would be like they shot my child. First I would use the legal system, then I would use a civil lawsuit to cost them as much as possible, then the misery would start. After a period of time for me to be forgotten about the perp would find random things not working such as ac units and car radiators with what may look like a 22 round in them. Please do not shoot a dog just because you can, I would do everything I could to run a dog off my property before I would consider shooting it. Someone may love that dog and want it home.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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