@edgarblythe,
A few years ago, an elderly neighbor lady called us on New Years Day (I think I may hve posted this before, but.. anyway)
The woman was panicking because her husband was trying to stand down two pit bullsusing a sharp hay fork and, in the process, he movd into a corner of their barn so as to have a better defensive position.(I guess that was his reason, I woulda leaped up and grabbed onto the beams and shinnied into the haymow)
The story later unfolded that these two dogs escaped from a house all the way in town (about 4 miles away from the township farms). These dogs had just completed attackin several of my neighbors goats and killed all of them .These were champion milk goats that had won all kinds of milk production ribbons at the PA Farm SHow..
While The dogs were killing my neighbors goats he heard the noise in the barn, grabbed a pitch fork, and headed out to investigate. The dogs apparently began turning on him and only through his constant jabbing was he able to keep driving them away.
His wife called us and I got a pistol and drove over to their farm across our fields and into their previously plowed one.
I got into their house lane,when I got out of the car, I could hear the growling and noise coming out of the milk house.
All of a sudden one of the dogs heard me an , in some apparent blind rage (these dogs just had blood on their pea brains),
This one dog, big brindle pit bull tore toward me. I put three shots into it before it dropped and then the other dog was still trying to get my neighbor. I got into the barn but I didn't want to fire toward the dog in the event that Id ricochet a .45 off the stone walls of the barn and either I or my neighbor would get hit. SO I screamed and ran out the barn door . I kept screaming like I was afraid ( Believe me I wsnt acting) and that got the other dog , a big merled male pit bull to turn toward me. He was very fast and I made it to the outside With a nice open area should the dog come busting through the sliding panel door.
Stupid dog decided to jump toward me through an open window, so that left me with the only option to fire at the dog toward the wooden barn side. I put 5 or 6 shots at him (I was kinda nervous, scared, and somewhat jazzed at what was gonna be a rather dull NEw Years day where we go to the local fire company for a saur kraut dinner.
Dog comes right at me and Im blasting away. When the smoke cleared the damn dog was just a few feet from me and still snapping. I put one into its head. Then I went to the barn door and saw I had put maybe 4 shots into the woodwork.
To this day , my neighbor has left those bullet holes in his barn door in case someone triedto convince him of owning a pit bull puppy.
My wife called the State police and, when he arrove, it was pretty much a crime scene.
5 dead goats
2dead pit bulls
A whole bunch of yattering people all full of adrenaline and scared shitless about what just happened.
The cop told me to declip and eject my pistol. He then told my neighbor that he had some trouble with several of these "druggies" who lived in the town and that they all had pitbulls for "protection"
These dogs had everything cropped , easr , tails AND, it later turned out when the vet did a quick autopsy (to determine whether these were the animals that killed the goats). He found so much goat hair in the fogs gullets and mouths that it was no discussion as to qheteher we were acting responsibly. (cops cant believe anyone although the on-scene officer was recording it pretty much as we told him).
The one owner of the two pit bulls was later arrested and sent away for a long time for an unrelated issue(he ran a do-it-yourself meth lab in a Camper (caravan) down by the big woods).
Since that happened We have had lots of Amish families around us buying old farms and setting up new veggie and dairy farms and all the Amish have at least 5 kids,(two familes have 10 each). Many of These kids walk our fields each day to get to school and Ive since thought about those dogs, and the thought scares me.
