Illegal to shoot a trespassing dog?

You need to keep your dog within your property. If the neighbor feels threatened by any means, he or she has the right to shoot your dog. Why don't you build a run or keep him on a leash when he is outside? His lifespan will be drastically stopped if he gets out and gets on the neighbor's yard again. Your dog is a problem dog that you keep ignoring. YOU have the power to keep him out of that yard and you don't. You can get a 500 foot chain run with a stake for the ground so he can still run, but not over there. You need to do something. If I was the neighbor, I'd just keep the dog since it's obvious you don't care about him. If you cared about him, you'd keep him in your yard since your neighbor has threatened to kill him. Grow up and take responsibility. Do something other than just laugh when he goes next door. One day he'll go there and he won't come back.

I live in Canada, regardless I think anyone who shoots a dog is out of their mind and needs severe help. Obvioulsy anyone who would shoot a dog, has absolutely no respect for animals, and is a very uncompassionate person. They also need help with anger managment, and need to be taught about the laws which protect animals from animal cruelty. Secondly, even when an owner has the best intentions, and keeps a dog tied up and/or fenced in, dogs do sometimes escape by accident. Gardeners and other people, sometimes workers in a persons backyard and or accessing a persons backgate in a yard, often leave a backgate open by mistake, and then the dog gets out. It's not the owners fault, if the person cutting the lawn forgets to shut the back gate properly. Sometimes other cleaning staff, or elderly people sick with dementia, will leave a door open to a house by mistake, and the dog gets out. If the dog then goes into another persons yard, this is no reason to kill an animal, or entirely insult the owner. I am an owner of 2 dogs, and have had dogs all my life. There have been times when my dog got out of its collar because the collar wan't tight enough, when people have left the back gate open my accident when cutting the lawn / or shovelling snow, and also times when the fence came loose, and the dog got out underneath, and my dogs ended up on the street, luckily people were always kind enough to phone me , as I've always had idenification tags on their collars. A dog does not need to be shot for any of these reasons, nor an owner attacked or verbally insulted, to the extent to the comments on this website. It would be nice if we live in a perfect world, however we do not, and accidents happen all the time. This is not justification for murdering an animal, especially someones beloved dog. People need to be more respectful towards animals, and the love people have for their pets. My dogs are my children, and anyone who would harm them, or shoot them for a mistake of getting out of a yard, deserves to be severly punished by law. The best way to handle this situation is communication with the neighbour, understanding, patience, forgiveness, and a little love and kindness, and respect for people and animals! Basically, treating others how you would like to be treated in return!

I live in Florida. I having been having problems with my neighbor's dog. Our have neighbor's shared our fence without permission for the past 7 years. This past month their dog has dug under our fence and come into our backyard. The dog is sweet, but we have 3 German Shepherds that can kill it given the opportunity because they are guard dogs. We've often had to babysit the dog when the neighbors weren't home and have told the neighbor repeatedly what can happen, but it doesn't register. If my dogs kill their dog can they sue me? I've had "Bad Dog" signs posted since I've moved here 10 years ago.

i have a suggestion, why dont you try calling the owners first, they dont want to deal with fines when they could just tie up the dog. if that doesnt work the fines shold be issued but at least contact the owner.