Walking my ~45lb dog and my 2.5yr old daughter with my wife today on a public sidewalk in my neighborhood when a 60+lb pit/dane mix shot out of one of the homes and started jumping on my dog. I kicked it away, it went away and started jumping on another person's dog and then came back and tried to jump on my daughter (whom my wife picked up as I came over to them to kick the dog away again).
Owner finally appears as we're almost a block away from the house it shot out of and the dog is still circling us, still can't get the dog under control.
My question is this, could I have legally used lethal force on that dog?
Owner finally appears as we're almost a block away from the house it shot out of and the dog is still circling us, still can't get the dog under control.
My question is this, could I have legally used lethal force on that dog?