Can i kill me neighbours dog if it attacks me or my family

[Ghosteh]

His argument was when dog handlers have families, they often don't want to take the risk around young children and if the handler doesn't rehome then there isn't a place for them.

I've not known any to be destroyed after they retire. My GSD was amazing, both when he was at work, and when he was at home. He was such an awesome pet.

Family friends have all kept theirs after retirement too. Some have different ways of keeping them. For the most part, ours was kept in the house even when it was active. Some people keep theirs outside even after retirement. But I've not known any to be given up or destroyed after the retirement, as the handlers work so closely with them, for such long periods of time, they're awesome colleagues, and they eventually become part of the family.

 

[BuffetSlayer]

Its a dog, just wring its neck. Lol at all the dog owners here thinking the dog would have one up on a fully grown male.

Cool story bro. It is an animal with a bite that can crush your bones. If it gets hold of any part of your body with its teeth you will be in far too much pain/shock to be fighting it. If you are strong/quick enough to grab a fully grown attacking Alsation and 'wring its neck' you should be wearing an S on your chest and saving the planet.

My point was that police/mil dogs are more likely to have been in a Dog v Human situation before and will have, for want of better word, endurance, as you said, they won't let go.
An untrained GSD that attacks a human probably hasn't been in that situation before.

Another way of looking at that is that an untrained dog is actually more dangerous because it is out of control. It won't respond if the owner or anyone else tells it to stop - particularly if it has socialising issues and is angry. Instead of latching onto one part of your body and limiting the damage it does, it will go for anywhere and repeatedly bite/attack.

Is an Alsatian really that hard to kill? Or are some owners mixing fantasy with reality on how unstoppable their dogs really are?

Surely a full fledged kick straight in the head would stun if not kill the mutt. all this talk of steel plated heads???. If not repeated punches and kicks to the body cracking a few ribs in the process, should see an end to it.

Besides OP, just have a decent garden tool to hand and always supervise your kids. No dog is going to survive a shovel or claw hammer to the head !

I think you may be underestimating just how agile and fast an Alsation is. But maybe you are right, if you hit it over the head with a shovel you might stop it. But therein lies in the problem. You have to first have the shovel to hand, and then actually hit it, and do so before it manages to knock you over/drag you down and bite you. You might still win though, but my guess is you will be quite badly hurt in the process, with possible bone fractures and nasty puncture wounds/gashes. If you do ever end up needing to tackle 7 stone of angry dog that may well be bearing down on you at 30 MPH, I genuinely wish you the best of luck

Personally, I would avoid such a confrontation unless it was life and death!

 

[Redz]

They're nicknamed Land Sharks for a good reason. It'll look like something out of Jaws.

This is old but worthy of a repost.

 

[neil3k]

lob a bar of dairymilk over the fence.

problem solved.

 

[spankingtexan]

Lob the dog a bone, don't kill dog, report to council, RSPCA, Police.

 

[wordy]

Kill your family and blame it on yourself

 

[ubersonic]

I have bad thoughts of it going for me, the mrs or our 2 young under 5 year old kids, so if it did, would i get into trouble if i killed it?

You wouldn't get in trouble for killing your neighbor in those circumstances, why the hell would you get in trouble for their dog

 

[McGray]

Lol at the big boys thinking they can take out an Alsatian.

Clueless.

 

[bitslice]

It was mentioned to be by an Armed Response officer that apparently they rarely rehome Police dogs but shoot them due to their 'occupation' after retirement.

Not that I've heard of, retired Police take them and people experienced with Alsations take them, I gather they are much in demand?

This is the problem with Alsations, numptys get them and do naff all training so the dogs play up and bark at everything (including passing helicopters), especially if the owners are soft or are out all the time, they need lots of attention.
You also need to be top dog 24/7, it's only ex Police/owners that seem to understand this.

 

[Neil79]

This is old but worthy of a repost.

That's cool but I have heard of dogs being shot by crims

 

[Neil79]

Sorry man . Don't they do it though because it helps their stomach? Our cats seem to it for that reason, still chunder everywhere though.

Well yeh I guess but there was no helping our dog, she had cancer growth which burst in her stomach and filled her belly with blood. We never knew

 

[Dj_Jestar]

It was mentioned to be by an Armed Response officer that apparently they rarely rehome Police dogs but shoot them due to their 'occupation' after retirement. However, knowing him a bit better since then, I'm a bit dubious to whether he's pulling my leg.

My uncle trained (the dogs) and served in the K9 unit for nearly two decades. They rehome them all. A lot of them go to the officers'* homes.

*I think I've forgotten the punctuation for possessive plural?

 

[Suarez7]

That's cool but I have heard of dogs being shot by crims

Yeah well that does happen but we're talking about particularly members here who're bragging about taking down these beasts barehanded.

 

[titaniumx3]

Id use a poison tipped crossbow and discard of it immediately.

 

[bitslice]

officers'* homes.

*I think I've forgotten the punctuation for possessive plural?

I think you've got it right

 

[Scougar]

Love in that video that the German Shepherd actually hangs onto the handler at the end lol.

BTW... look up Malinois (Belgian Shepherd) if you want to see some epic police/military dog 'parkour' (Stuff like this:

)

Bottomline to OP is defend yourself and your family if anything bad were to ever happen. Pre-describing this is daft though.

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

An Alsation is unlikely to kill a fully grown man intent on killing it. A pack of them, sure. But one? You'd have to be quite inept or unlucky to get killed by a dog.

lol yeah if you had a gun maybe.

Don't get out much do you.

 

[EvilDreams]

Why kill an innocent dog

I think the point here is that the dog in question's apparent intentions are anything but innocent.

 

[Kenai]

I think the point here is that the dog in question's apparent intentions are anything but innocent.

According to the OP.

Anyone who owns one of these dogs will tell you it's more likely a warning bark (possibly even just excitement) than an aggressive intent to attack and kill his family.

 

[d_brennen]

Its a dog, just wring its neck. Lol at all the dog owners here thinking the dog would have one up on a fully grown male.

lol, I once saw an Irish setter grab a blokes arm in a pub car park, for no apparent reason. The bugger wasn't letting go, the guy was pretty hefty and the two guys pulling, punching and trying to lever the dogs mouth were hardly size 8 ladyboys. Took a pool cue and some levering to get it off