There is only One reason why people keep and bear dangerous canines. Because they are convinced that their dangerous canine is only a risk to other people, not their selves or their own family.
How fast would the problem disappear they only attacked their owners? In a very short time, normal people who love their neighbor would be able to walk down the street without a gun. There would be no more furry attackers loose on the street. Yay! Dear God, please make them attack bite only their owners. Amen.
Ticks, mosquitoes (West Nile yep been there), Copperheads, rattlesnakes, black widow, brown recluse, legendary cougar that supposedly prowls the area…and never know when a normally timid creature might show up rabid instead.
Who's next? There's only one requirement: Someone who is not defended with a self-defensive firearm. All you have to do is not carry a gun, and you can let you neighbors' nanny dogs butcher you on the public street.
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Black and Brown Widows over here. I’m told the Brown ones came in on a boat from South America but I don’t know. The Black ones like ground level nests. Found a female once in the water meter box with 3 empty egg sacs and one full. Torched it with carburetor cleaner.
Brown Widows like living 3 ft off ground level and are slightly sma!ler.
Humans are by far the most dangerous, gangsters will shoot you for fun at 15 yrs old.
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Death adders
blue blotched snake
brown snake
black snake
red belly black.
Black snakes and red belly blacks eat brown snakes. Blacks and red belly blacks are timid and easy to kill but you will then get browns. The best way to keep snakes away is put road kill out for goannas because the goannas eat snakes. However goannas are cunning and will follow you around so the best way to deal with goannas is to give them a whack with a bit of poly pipe to make them scared of you.
The first one was a classic ambush attack. Out came the German shepherd from a blind driveway, about one and three quarters seconds away from me, full charge, snarling and growling. Deep within my few seconds legal, personal self-defense time-space. I drew and fired one shot. It got hit in the side of its skull. It was four feet away, one tenth of a second away from me. All persons in Prescott were critical of me, because I was too afraid to offer my flesh and blood to their Almighty Dog, whom they worship and serve.
My second time was similar distance and timing. My first two shots grazed the Queensland heeler in the legs, third shot in side of head, fourth shot center of its head. It never decelerated. It never veered off. Full terror of immediate hospitalization injury, until sudden stop one-thirtieth of a second away from me.
Five shots per two tiny split second stops. Police fire significantly more shots per shot dog. Closer to five rounds per dog.
Successful defense with pepper spray is almost totally unobtainable. Unarmed defense is virtually completely futile.
I remember someone (FOAFOAF of sorts; didn’t know him personally) who liked The Biker Look, and had those “corsets” that would go around your wrist/forearm with those little metal spiky things sticking out.
Came in handy one day when a dog attacked him, he raised his arm to let the dog chomp down on leather’n’metal (huge surprise, I’d imagine!), before pulling his boot-knife and nailing the attacking dog right in the pumper from the side, and doing a classic zigzag’n’twist on the critter’s insides.
And yeah, everyone was blaming him for nailing poor Fido. “Such a good doggie, used to cuddle up with The Twins, Cody and Caleb, so there was no reason for that monster to butcher him like that!”, etc.
After my first dog shooting, I personally informed Prescott Police that I was very desirous of walking my daily route with a Mossberg Shockwave. I asked them to supply me with a detailed map showing where, near government buildings, schools, etc. I could not do so. They begged me to not. So I never did. Five months later, my Underwood loaded 10mm Glock29 sufficed, barely.
Big black bear hanging around my house every night. Walks on the front porch, looks in the windows, sniffs around for anything edible. Climbed the apple tree 20 feet from my bedroom window a couple times but leaves it alone now that he’s eaten all the apples. Totally my fault because I got careless not securing the garbage cans and he swiped a couple meals there while making a mess and now considers my place to be a regular foraging site. He’s probably 250—300 lbs. He’s not in any way aggressive—runs when he’s seen and puts it in high gear when I trigger the shotgun over his head. I don’t want to kill him. He adds a little character to the place. I’m making sure to keep any food items inaccessible to him now and hopefully he’ll head for hibernation in a couple months.
Might as well jump in here a bit late, but what the heck.
Things I consider dangerous. No real order.
Moose. (They kill more people than the bears up here, and there are a ton of them living everywhere up here.)
Semi Feral dogs or ones that are not with the families that sort of claim them. (RichBuff covered similar situations I have witnessed or been in.)
People. This is the one that keep me moving further and further out from other people.
Brown bears, (Grizzly, Browns, BMF’ers).
Black Bears.
People. Yeah I listed it twice. For good reason.
All of these I have seen from less than a Mile from my front door.
Welcome to Alaska out the front door and on to the food chain, not always at the top though. Have a fun time. Also remember the weather half the year is also trying to kill you as well.
So yeah with police a short 20-45 minute response time, people tend to take care of things themselves. Fire and Ambulance are around 5-10 because I live closer to a hospital than a PD…
