Now a days You can get in some serious trouble for shooting a Dog...if You happen to walk up on a stray/wild Dog and it growls and comes at You then You are justified in shooting it and protecting yourself or if it attacks Your house pets,Kids,Livestock or other Farm Animals etc...You might be better off to use a large live trap/cage and simply haul it to the local Dog Pound,People should be responsible for the Dogs and Pets and not let them run loose on other Peoples Property.I have trail camera pictures of a few Rabbit Beagles and some other stray Dogs running thu our property and I know they are disrupting the natural travel of our Deer...gets aggravating at times to see a stray dog running thru and messing with the Salt/Mineral Lick and several of them have collars so they are simply let loose to run where evere they want!