OK. Here's the story as it appeared in a court case. A man has a small child. His next door neighbors have a dog the continues to go over in the man's yard and creates trouble. He tells them about their dog. They ignore him. They get two more dogs. One of them is an agressive Rotweiller that continues to go over in the man's yard and gets aggressive with him and his small son. He calls the dog warden. The warden knocks on their door, but even though they are home, they refuse to answer the door. The warden leaves a note in the door about the complaint, and they refuse to get back to the warden with a phone call. The man also informs the people that if their dogs continue to come into his yard and continues to be aggressive with him and his son, that he is going to shoot them. A few days later, one of the dogs, which is not aggressive, goes into his yard with a piece of garbage and lays down to eat it. He thinks it is the Rotweiller, so he goes out in his yard and shoots the dog with a 20 gauge shotgun with #3 shot and kills the dog. They sue him in court, where he admits to shooting the dog and after hearing the story, the judge throws the case out of court because they were negligent. What do you think? Would you have shot the dog?
