This video from the news tells a different story.

Dog shooting news story.

Comments on both pages are disgusting for the most part, much like You Tube mentality.

Every so often, I see a first comment that makes me smile. Red12's did it:

There are way to many instances like this. it's sick.

I wonder what that guy would do when someone's kids get out of control?

Very sad.

But again, because it's a Rottweiler, it made the news.

I have pulled apart 2 Rottweilers fighting, on my own. Their combined weight, double mine.

Stupid owners.

If the Lab had broken free and attacked the Rottie and was shot dead, everyone would be screaming that the poor Lab should not have been shot.

2 Dogs fighting are not a "breed" thing. Not all dogs like every dog.

My Polly was attacked by a mini Schnauzer a few years back that broke free from it's owner. I had just walked out my front door with Polly on a leash and was still on my porch. Schnauzer ripped the side of her neck open, while the owner stood there dumb founded. Polly wieghed 4 times that of the Schnauzer.

The hurt in the guys voice made me cry :(

After reading the article and reading the comments posted with the video, there is nothing "execution style" about protecting a Labrador puppy from an attacking full-grown Rottweiler.

Looks like either the article was updated, or changed by somebody but not the description. Sounds like the dog got what he deserved although in reality the dog was punished for his owner's poor care.

I'm a dog lover, but I might just go with IcePigs on this. According to the article, both owners tried to separate the dogs and failed. And the rottie sounds anything like a "family pup" if it's attacking other dogs, especially puppies that pose little threat.

I would rather shoot a stranger's untrained, unrestrained attacking dog rather then stand by and watch it maul my puppy to death. Maybe that makes me a bad person. But I'm sorry, guy should've had control of his dog. If you're going to keep a breed with a bad rep, you should train it and control it to combat that reputation. What if that lab puppy had been a toddler?

And I'll nip this in the bud in case there's any one here who doesn't know my stance on BSL: I keep a Staffordshire, a Bulldog and a Catahoula...all fighting breeds. I think BSL is BS. However, I also think there are certain dogs that can be hard for lax owners to handle and that extra measures have to be taken by the owner to ensure that their dogs are raised without dominant, aggressive temperments.

Wow, after reading some of those comments, I'm really, really, really glad people can't walk around with concealed firearms here.

edit: comments on the article, not Plime comments. Just to clarify.

Those two sites tell completely different stories. If it is the way it sounds in the first story, I think the headline on Plime is pretty misleading.

It sounds like a guy was walking his new puppy on a leash when a stranger just walked up out of the blue and shot the dog in the head.

But then of course, that's how the second story makes it sound.

I hate the media. Tell it exactly how it is.

The comments on the article annoy me not only because of the breed sterotyping, but that they believe small dogs are not a danger.

I used to work at a veterinarian office and was attacked by a miniature pinscher. The dog was so agressive, that even the owner was unable to even get close to it. The owner kept the dog in a crate most of the time, which I'm sure did nothing to improve the dog's behavior.

The owner didn't take proper care of the dog at all, so its mouth was a mess. That little $%^#&!& bit me, and I ended up having to go to the hospital to get treated for blood poisoning.

No matter what size or breed, bad dogs result from dumbarse owners.

They also say in one article that the Lab was 9 months old. Still a puppy, yes. But small? No. A 9 month old Lab is 80-90% full grown.

There was a story a few months ago in Maryland where an American Bulldog attacked another dog (can't remember the breed) in a Petsmart where both owners had their dogs on leashes. Stupidly, the owners allowed them to say "hello" and didn't watch for the signs of "T"ing off. As usual, things were exaggerated. They originally said the Am.Bulldog was 120 lbs. In truth and reality, it was later stated that it was 70 lbs. Who knows what really happened here.

The comments on the news stories are retarded.

This news channel is good at reporting all news.

See this.

Husky attack.

That is what bothers me.

What if he missed? It isn't easy to shoot something with a pistol, even more so when you have two animals fighting and you only want to shoot one.

What if the bullet went into the rottweiler owner instead?

I actually hate the concealed carry law here, although once the law passed, every business around posted signs that you were not allowed to bring your gun in. I don't know many places that allow you to carry it.

Most people who walk there dogs have little control over them. And their dogs are worse than mine (bully breed owner here) on a leash.

I walk my therapy dog alot on many of the trails around here. Last year some guy had a dachsund puppy and the puppy was wagging its tail ears back pulling its owner to get over to our side of the trail.

Stitch's ears were also back...she is the most submissive dog ever and she was wagging her tail, she loves puppies. She will plop down and let them nurse on her. But she was still at my side and there was slack in my leash.

No slack in his.

Whenever I go out she always wears her therapy certification and Canine Good Citizen tag as well.

The guy blurted out "You better control you dog"

And I was walking thinking, "Wtf?" I AM. Your dog, however is walking you.

I tried to be nice, explain she is well socialized and is a therapy dog and the guy was practically running away from us and laughing with his wife about my dog being a therapy dog, "what the hell is a therapy dog"?

I was really pissed off and stunned.

People have alot of hatred about bully breeds and they seem inclined to cling to them rather than learn.

Exactly. If anyone has ever really seen a scary aggressive dog fight, you would realize that he must have been one helluva a good shot to have only shot the Rottweiler and not his own dog, himself, or the Rottweiler's owner. That's why something isn't right about the story, if the two dogs were in a fight.

People cross the street all the time when we are walking our Rottie. The most he would do is lean up against you for a good belly rub and knock you off your feet.

One of my best friends parent's dog was mauled and killed while they were out walking her on a leash, by a loose dog. There was also a woman walking a min poodle a few years back and two greyhounds came rushing out at her. She picked her poodle up and the greyhounds ripped the poodle out of her arms and tore it in half.

People need to contain, and control their dogs. Any dog of Any breed.

Yeah, doesn't seem right to me either.

People avoid us too.

I once saw a doberman being attacked by a chihuahua. The doberman just stood there for a minute like 'WTF?' before the owner of the chihuahua ran over and got her dog before he got eaten. Was the most hilarious display of canine bravery/stupidity I had ever seen.

I kinda wish I could upvote you more.