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Gentlemen, a cautionary note: without for a moment diminishing either your right to keep and bear arms or of their use in reasonable self defense, let me suggest that it would be a very bad thing to be charged with a weapons violation, cruelty to animals or anything else as a result of an armed encounter with an animal. The danger is very real that in attempting to bust a cap in fido, you might injure a bystander.

Also, consider how it would look to a civil jury if you just happened to be packing a SOG SEAL combat knife in your bathrobe on the way to get the morning paper.

I guess I'm saying that if it gets to the point where you are consciously arming yourself to protect against the threat of the neighborhood dog, then you probably have a case for the animal control folks to have the dog humanely destroyed.