Well another compassionate liberal jumps in.

The difference between a dog attacking his dog and a dog taking a **** in
his yard should be obvious to anyone. You are allowed to protect yourself
and your family (most people consider a pet as part of the family) when they
are placed in immediate danger. The courts would say that your neighbor
was justified in protecting his pet. Now if the Shepard attacked his first
dog and killed him, and then returned home. The courts would not allow the
neighbor to then walk into his house or backyard to kill the Shepard. The
legal system is designed so that people do not take the law into their own
hands.


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Some years ago, a neighbor who had two dogs, a sheltie and a cocker
spaniel, lost the sheltie to another neighbor's German shepherd. The two
little dogs were in their own yard, kept there by training and by an
"invisible" fence...one of those electronic fences.

About a month later, the shepherd came back for another visit, and
started going after the cocker spaniel. The spaniel owner came out and
bashed in the skull of the shepherd with a shovel, and then dragged the
carcass out to the middle of the road.

All's well that ends well.