[QUOTE=maggiefromnj;4021793]About the wasp spray...how hazardous is it to the dog you spray? If you spray a dog, say 5-10 feet away from you and he is injured by the spray, what happens then? That dog owner will claim that you were never in danger because Fido was just barking and wasn't going to hurt you....I would also hate to hurt another animal unless it was truly an attack situation, in which case pepper spray should work.
As my neighbors chow was actually tearing the boards off the fence that separates our back yards, to get to my babies, I sprayed that vicious dogs face with the pepper spray as it got its head and one front leg thru the fence.....(this is pepper spray the police use, and I always had it on me when we went into the back yard because of that dog and my fear that she was going to tear thru the fence to get my Yorkies)....it had absolutely NO EFFECT on that dog!!! Someone posted earlier that pepper spray works on some but not on all dogs...VERY TRUE!!! And while I never would consider injuring another animal just because I see it walking down the street, minding its own business, the minute that dog or animal or person for that matter, goes into an attack mode and is attacking me or my pet, "injury" to that attacking animal/person is of little or no concern to me, and I will do WHATEVER it takes to stop the attack. |