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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiew" data-source="post: 3006229" data-attributes="member: 12604">My grandfather owns a large chunk of land up in Virginia. Back in the day he used to farm sheep on it. One of his neighbors had this big black dog that she let run wild. The dog would do things like take people chickens and carry them back to her. It also would lead packs of dogs, both wild and owned by neighbors, in attacking his sheep and killing some of them on a regular basis. One time he fired a shotgun loaded with birdshot into the middle of the pack to sting them a bit. They still came back the next day.Now, before he switched for farming my grandfather worked in a steel mill. He hated it so much that every weekend he'd buy a brick of .22 rounds and shoot them off the relieve his stress. So one day when he had his sheep locked in his barn the pack ran around trying to break in and generally driving the sheep crazy. So my grandfather shot the leader of the pack in the ear. He managed to make it back home before he died. Since the bullet had gone in the dogs ear there wasn't a mark. The vet knew my grandfather so he covered for him and his neighbor never realized her dog had been shot.I think my grandfather felt a bit bad about doing this. To this day he still claims he fired over the dog's head and it looked up at the last second.Now this story doesn't totally apply to your situation. My grandfather was a poor man with a large family who's way of feeding that family was in danger. I'm just telling this to illustrate that we aren't many generations removed from people who were fine with killing things to protect their property. If you turn a pet over to an animal shelter and it gets put down I wouldn't feel bad. You're still being much more civilized than people used to be or many people would be in your situation.</blockquote>

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