dogs?

[biathlon]

A good friend asked me a real good question last week. "How do you plan to deal with the probability of thousands of feral dogs after this collapse you believe is going to happen?"

After some thought it occured to me that a few years into a real calamity there could be enormous packs roaming around with a taste for human flesh!

[ComputerGuy]

Stinger rounds from a 10-22 scoped

[610Alpha]

Tiger pits, traps, and a grill

[Lowdown3]

and a grill.... I love it! LOL

We have had a little experience with this living in the country where everyone "dumps out" their unwanted pups and kittens.

[610Alpha]

I heard it tastes just like chicken. Hey if the food is getting low in the house you bet fido better watch out especially if he comes around my house with a bad attitude. :) I would rather put them out of their misery and feed my belly, lol.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

I've eaten dog. It's not bad, kinda stringy but ok. Never had cat though, yet. What you say is possible like these folks are saying here 22s, traps, and same thing ya do in the bear woods watch your 6, don't leave food laying around, dont dump food or food smells near where you live etc etc. common sense woodsman stuff. I even got to hunt a pack of feral dogs once that were not scared of people. When the shooting started they spread fast. We live where they dump them too and ever so often they pack up and we thin them out. It's good practice for multiples in self defense learning to shoot moving targets and varied distances and speeds.
Dogs can be Zombies too! zombie rule #4 LOL

[eeyore]

For any number of good reasons you need to shoot them and do it quickly before they can get the upper hand. Between cats and dogs they will decimate the wildlife in the area, which could be (and should be) part of your food supply. They will be disease carriers, they will attack you and yours. I would not wait to long.

[Klayton]

one word of warning, do NOT poison them...

poison remains in the body, and when consumed by wild animals scavenging you will actually kill multiple targets with one poisoning, and the secondary targets are normally the ones you do NOT want to kill

Vultures, birds of prey, foxes... these wild animals have a place in the ecosystem, without them who would clean the land of the dead and decaying?

[ComputerGuy]

Very good point Klayton

[Matt In Oklahoma]

For any number of good reasons you need to shoot them and do it quickly before they can get the upper hand. Between cats and dogs they will decimate the wildlife in the area, which could be (and should be) part of your food supply. They will be disease carriers, they will attack you and yours. I would not wait to long.

That won't be an issue, I'm all about "the other white meat (dogs,cats, mt lion or any predator besides me)" :) before depleting my canned supplies or other herbavore game!
Ditto Good Point Klayton
Vulture mmm mm good

[Bourbon]

I heard it tastes just like chicken.

They all taste just like chicken.

There's a reason why cowboys carried guns with them.

[Fido]

I heard it tastes just like chicken. Hey if the food is getting low in the house you bet fido better watch out especially if he comes around my house with a bad attitude. :) I would rather put them out of their misery and feed my belly, lol.

HEY! What did I do wrong? LOL
My wife says I'd be tough and gristly anyway.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

HEY! What did I do wrong? LOL
My wife says I'd be tough and gristly anyway.

bad dog no biscuit! LOL

[Defuz]

For most dogs alive today, I wouldn't worry too much for the first year or so as the animals that will be turned loose will be domesticated, largely with a built in fear/respect for humans. Pack mentality can be worrisome, and would target the vulnerable meaning isolated targets or the weak, hunting and attacking with numbers. If you can keep and use them, dogs are excellent guards and alarms. A generation or two after a collapse, maybe a year or two, and feral dogs without any domestic experience would be a real challenge.

[sirhuntalot1]

I have 2 a Lab/Shepard and a Chessie. Nothing comes anywhere near my property without them alerting me. I was hunting at my property back a number of years ago and kept hearing the sounds of dogs barking and something banging against metal and it got to the point of where there was going to be no hunting with all that racket so I got up to investigate. I had to walk about a 150 yds to where the sound was coming from. The owner of the property that ajoined mine had a couple of old barnes sitting right at the fence line. There was the awfullest commotion going on inside one of those barnes. I was using a 12 ga with slugs and I set the weapon over the fence then climbed over. I could hear what sounded like dogs inside the barn but something was hammering the sides of the barn walls. I slipped in between another fence into the barnyard and brought the 12 ga into offensive mode not knowing what was going to come out of the barn. At that time I heard a goat and just as I pulled up the gun to shoulder out of the barn came a nasty looking black chow/whatever, and when he seen me he knew he was in the wrong and I knew he was to so I blasted him just below the chest in his right front leg blew half off sending him spiraling jumping in circles squealin like a banshee. Right behind him came out another dog but this one seeing what the first one got bolted and got around the side of the second barn before I could get off a shot. I turned my attention back to the screaming banshee and drew down on him and when he seen me take aim he too bolted with all 3 legs and one dangling as he ran screaming off through the woods. I didnt finish him off due to knowing that a house was in that general direction. I found out later from one of the neighbors that the goat belonged to him and he had put him in the barn to supposedly protect it because there was a pack of dogs killing all the local neighbor animals. If I would have known I would have tried to finish both of them off. While driving the back roads the summer after I could have sworn I seen both of those dogs with ole banshee trailing behind with that front leg still dragging behind him. Im watchin for them whenever I do hit the woods hoping I get one more chance to right a wrong.