There were two dogs supposedly shot last night. They were shot by the owners of some horses the dogs were attacking. What is not in question is the fact they were in the horse pasture, 1 dog is now dead, and there are photos of fresh wounds on a couple of the horses. The dog owner says they were the sweetest dogs and wouldn't hurt anyone or anything. Basically, these were the Mike Brown's of the K9 world. They were shot just after 7 PM while I was at soccer practice with my son. It blew up on a the Choctaw garage sale group on Facebook around 10 PM. The dog owners threatened to contact the news stations. Turns out, they did.... all of them. They all came out today; KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH.
I got home yesterday at 4:00. I let my dog out. It is typical for him to run to the fence and bark at the neighbors' two dogs. They bark back. This typically lasts about a minute. 15 minutes later, all three are still barking at the front of the backyard fence. I went outside in the front yard, around the back of my car parked in the driveway and there are two dogs clawing at the fence trying to get at the 3 dogs in the 2 backyards. One is a shepherd mix around 70lbs (now dead). The other is a Pitt mix (the Muslim of the K9 world - breed of peace) around 40-50lbs.
Now my neighborhood is 1 main road with 4 dead ends off of it. It's one way in and out. It has a lot of strays and escapee dogs that randomly roam the neighborhood. One neighbor has an outside only dog and literally doesn't even own a fence. Nice guy and nice dog though. But it's not unusual to see random dogs down my dead end. What is highly unusual is to see them next to my fence. I have a large Doberman which is easily the most dominant and aggressive dog in the neighborhood. He's wanting to chew a hole through both of these dogs and they are clawing at his fence.
So I clap my hands and yell "get". Both dogs now turn and get aggressive at me. I'm 6'7" and am not used to dogs challenging me when they are the ones out of place. The pitt is growling, barking and charging a few steps at me and then backing off quickly. Every time I stomp my foot on the concrete, clap and yell at them, the shepherd jumps back, but the pitt charges a few steps then backs off.
The shepherd starts to circle around to my left towards the street to get behind me. The pitt is creeping in on me. I start backing up and yelling at the shepherd not wanting to let it behind me. I don't get the feeling the pitt is bluffing, more like sizing me up. They are both maybe 10-15' away moving towards and away constantly. I've never shot a dog, but I the realization sets in that I'm about to.... at 4:15 in the afternoon in my own front yard.
After a standoff that seems to last a couple of minutes, the dogs both start to circle and as I turn, they take off running into my neighbor without the fence backyard and into the woods that border his house. I go across the street to my other neighbor who I saw in his backyard (old guy, almost deaf, didn't have a clue what was going on) and ask if he knew the dogs belonged to. About 5-10 minutes later the two dogs come hauling ass out of the woods obviously spooked and go back down my street to the main road. I never saw them again. They were shot about 3 hours later in a horse pasture that backs up to the neighborhood.
I spoke with another lady down the main road today that asked about the news crews. When I mentioned it was about shooting a dog, she said the two dogs had tried to attack her dogs through the fence last night and scared her enough to go inside. And she was behind the fence.
So this was all in Choctaw right by Nicoma Park schools. The shooting was on a big chunk of land with lots of land behind it, safe direction, down hill, no structures in the direction. That wasn't an issue. My issue here is the shooter was ticketed. So what's up with that? I thought you could shoot to protect livestock?
IMO, it was a good shoot. I don't know any of the people involved, but I know the dogs had been aggressive to me and my dog just hours earlier.
And another thing, the dog's owners are renters. They aren't putting up a fence. That's BS. The horse pasture they were in was 3 properties to the east each being 5-10 acres.
Here are some of the stories:
http://www.okcfox.com/story/30200899/neighbor-defends-actions-to-shoot-kill-dog-in-choctaw
http://kfor.com/2015/10/06/i-just-h...s-dog-owner-says-neighbor-allegedly-shot-pet/
http://www.koco.com/news/my-dogs-coming-home-to-us-in-a-box/35691058
I got home yesterday at 4:00. I let my dog out. It is typical for him to run to the fence and bark at the neighbors' two dogs. They bark back. This typically lasts about a minute. 15 minutes later, all three are still barking at the front of the backyard fence. I went outside in the front yard, around the back of my car parked in the driveway and there are two dogs clawing at the fence trying to get at the 3 dogs in the 2 backyards. One is a shepherd mix around 70lbs (now dead). The other is a Pitt mix (the Muslim of the K9 world - breed of peace) around 40-50lbs.
Now my neighborhood is 1 main road with 4 dead ends off of it. It's one way in and out. It has a lot of strays and escapee dogs that randomly roam the neighborhood. One neighbor has an outside only dog and literally doesn't even own a fence. Nice guy and nice dog though. But it's not unusual to see random dogs down my dead end. What is highly unusual is to see them next to my fence. I have a large Doberman which is easily the most dominant and aggressive dog in the neighborhood. He's wanting to chew a hole through both of these dogs and they are clawing at his fence.
So I clap my hands and yell "get". Both dogs now turn and get aggressive at me. I'm 6'7" and am not used to dogs challenging me when they are the ones out of place. The pitt is growling, barking and charging a few steps at me and then backing off quickly. Every time I stomp my foot on the concrete, clap and yell at them, the shepherd jumps back, but the pitt charges a few steps then backs off.
The shepherd starts to circle around to my left towards the street to get behind me. The pitt is creeping in on me. I start backing up and yelling at the shepherd not wanting to let it behind me. I don't get the feeling the pitt is bluffing, more like sizing me up. They are both maybe 10-15' away moving towards and away constantly. I've never shot a dog, but I the realization sets in that I'm about to.... at 4:15 in the afternoon in my own front yard.
After a standoff that seems to last a couple of minutes, the dogs both start to circle and as I turn, they take off running into my neighbor without the fence backyard and into the woods that border his house. I go across the street to my other neighbor who I saw in his backyard (old guy, almost deaf, didn't have a clue what was going on) and ask if he knew the dogs belonged to. About 5-10 minutes later the two dogs come hauling ass out of the woods obviously spooked and go back down my street to the main road. I never saw them again. They were shot about 3 hours later in a horse pasture that backs up to the neighborhood.
I spoke with another lady down the main road today that asked about the news crews. When I mentioned it was about shooting a dog, she said the two dogs had tried to attack her dogs through the fence last night and scared her enough to go inside. And she was behind the fence.
So this was all in Choctaw right by Nicoma Park schools. The shooting was on a big chunk of land with lots of land behind it, safe direction, down hill, no structures in the direction. That wasn't an issue. My issue here is the shooter was ticketed. So what's up with that? I thought you could shoot to protect livestock?
IMO, it was a good shoot. I don't know any of the people involved, but I know the dogs had been aggressive to me and my dog just hours earlier.
And another thing, the dog's owners are renters. They aren't putting up a fence. That's BS. The horse pasture they were in was 3 properties to the east each being 5-10 acres.
Here are some of the stories:
http://www.okcfox.com/story/30200899/neighbor-defends-actions-to-shoot-kill-dog-in-choctaw
http://kfor.com/2015/10/06/i-just-h...s-dog-owner-says-neighbor-allegedly-shot-pet/
http://www.koco.com/news/my-dogs-coming-home-to-us-in-a-box/35691058
