RE: Would you shoot a tresspassing dog?
To me (I'm rural, own land, have cattle on it etc.... so I'm no city boy) the funny thing is most folks get uptight if a dog chases a cow or calf. But no one cares when the cows and or calves fight or chase each other. And I'm not out there shooting the cows when the tear down the fence, scratch up the truck, get into the yard and track it all up etc.... Yet let a dog run a cow and everyone gets tense. I know its off the total subject but I just don't see the difference.
While I'm off the subject grandma had a similar take the other nite(she's 89). Dogs hung around a cow that decided to have a calf right by the house. She was mad. Never mind the cow had the whole acreage to have the calf on and decides to do it right here. Never mind that when other cows bother a calving cow she'll go leave. But the simple fact that it was our dogs hanging around. Cow was fine. Calf was fine. Happens in nature all the time. Whats the big deal?