Bigfattyt
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I have seen videos of aggressive dogs take multiple gunshots and keep attacking until spine or head shots hit. One attacking dog, a spine shot happened, the dog kept trying to paw its self back to attack with just its front leggs. A pack of large pits had killed and was dismembering a smaller dog. Both the owner of the smaller dog, and the owner of the three large pits had been severly mauled. Both were unable to stand. There were a group of people present. Sticks, tire irons and other weapons including hoses had done nothing. The owner of the larger dogs was screaming and begging some one to shoot them.... he was head to toe covered in bites. A 5 or so police finally showed up and it took several shots per dog to stop the attacks.
I've been attacked by a single German Shepard (a professionally trained attack dog who had mental issues). I was taking it for a walk, and the dog was known to me and I was known to him. I had even stayed where the dog lived for a time. I moved too suddenly, and he snapped.
I've not traveled the world. But I lived in Bulgaria for two years. There, I saw constant attacks by packs of dogs. I was cornered frequently. Dogs killed people regularly. I watched a man mauled in broad daylight withing 50 feet of the President of Bulgaria's office...........yards away from the nicest hotel in the country. Broad daylight.
When I was there, I was told there was estimated to be up to 60,000 feral dogs roaming the cities.
In every city I lived in there, it was an issue.
I am very sensitive to the issue....especially because I could not carry any real weapon there.
I had a "gas gun" with extra loud retort, that blasted high velocity mace (military style, eye blinding stuff was still allowed), and pepper spray cartridges. Two shot, Derringer style with heavy brass cartridges and large primers.
I never seemed to have it on me when cornered or confronted by large packs.
I would immediately stoop, as if picking up rocks, and get ready to throw. The dogs were very well used to this.
Even in pairs, and being ready to toss actual large stones.....one pack menaced us for about 3/4 of a mile coming home from the Gym.
Enough foreigners have been killed that Bulgaria started an erratication program that was supposed to reduce the wild dog population by 95% by 2016.
Estimates when a British woman was eaten in 2006 were 11,000 at least in the capitol. Another foreign visitor was eaten in 2012which seemed to have been another push.
But when I was there, in the mid 1990's after the fall of communism, and the total collapse of the government and economy, and monetary unit there were absolutely droves of "wild" dogs who had been turned loose. Bulgarians then always seemed to be super anti spey or neutering. Even with the explosion of wild dogs.
You would often see very large aggressive breeds running in packs. Dobermann, German Shepard, Pit Bull type breeds.
I currenrly live in WA. Small town. 30k or so......
A man not 5 blocks away was just killed by his "rescue" Pitbull. That was two humans vs the dog, in their own home. She survived, with injuries, the male owner was deceased when help arrived. Even in their own home, with access to their own kitchen knives and other "weapons" they were not able to fight off their own dog. The knife did not work for them.
There are approximately 4.6 million dog bite/attacks every year in the USA. Tylically numbers are low for fatalities.
I've been attacked my self (more than once) in the USA. I've had multiple family members bitten. I've also had two family members require facial surgery....one needed 6 operations. To create a new lower lip...her lower lip was completely torn off....and the caring dog owner thought he might escape liability by disposing of it...... he denied his dog did it....but a DNA test showed otherwise (cousin was sure it was his dog, so that was a formality).
Took years of surgeries to attain a reasonable look.
My point is, dog attacks happen all the time. All over the world.
I had a super aggressive putbull "reascue" directly across the street. It was so bad that the father (owner of the home) had to move out when his adult daughter "rescued it". Luckily they moved after it had only killed a few neighborhood cats. It was constantly trying to get out to get to my children and other children. Tearing down the curtains, destroying the shades, the screen door, rhe back yard fence. They were constantly having to fix damage from the fog trying to get out at the neighbors. The lady's dad flat moved, and stopped visiting. She eventually had to get rid of it. (She had taken it in after some one had nearly beaten its skull in with a hammer). There were about 10 young children in the cul-de-sac. We had constant conversations about what to do about that dog.
I can walk in any direction and encounter aggressive dogs in my neighborhood. There are drug houses within a mile or less.
Heck, my older brother, on my Street, adopted a little dog....it immediately jumped his fence and bit the neighbor kid who had moved in just that morning. It was a little yapping dog. He got rid of it immediately!
Once while riding my bike along my father's morning jog, he had to back off a large, aggressive dog....that seemed to be foaming .....
When I walk my dog, I go armed with a .40, or a .357
My wife has been cornered several times while walking our Basset hound. In our neighborhood.
My combo is Gun, with knife as backup.
Sounds like OP has firearms. Also sounds like he is rural, and talking about working his property. I'd suggest a decent pistol, and a medium sized fixed blade in a comfortable cary style. A reasonable sized fixed blade on the belt, especially in a rural setting should not cause any issues. But again, it would not me my first line of defense if I were in OP's shoes.
For me, carying a handgun is second nature. Ccw where I am at. Not open carry.
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