On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 08:34:45 -0700 (PDT), Nancy Kotalik
wrote:

On Oct 3, 6:47*am, Karl Townsend
wrote:
My neighbor's dog has developed a blood taste for Milady's kittens.
When it brakes out of the invisible fence, the dog makes a bee line up
here to hunt and kill as fast as it can.

My neighbor and I are close friends. His kids adore that dog. So I
need to come up with something non lethal and preferably no large vet
bill.

Anyway, I've heard of filling a 12 gauge shell with rock salt from the
water softener. Will shooting an animal with this just barely break
the skin, my goal? What range? I know if I'm too close serious injury
could result. Anyone with experience here?

One simple question, should I re-seal the top of the shell with melted
paraffin? Or another way?

Karl

That rock salt will still be a serious projectile, and rock salt is
sharp enough to penatrate through skin and rib cage and end up with a
lung shot that will cause the dog to bleed to death. You need to do a
custom load where you control how much powder is behind your
projectile, that is beyond me. I've had similar problems, a bee-bee
gun with just a spring or a multi-pump air rifle with only one or two
pumps may control the lethal-ness. At any rate this elevates the
problem where your neighbor friend will end. Your only solution may
be to kill the dog.

My wife lost two calico kittens this spring, and I believe it was my
neighbor's coon hunting dog that did them in. Like you, there would
be too many indoor cats if we kept them indoors, as my wife is also a
pkt. Same tricks, that feather is amazing at tricking the feral-ness
out of them. That, and good genetics (per the vet, some cats are
naturally more tame), as I've seen some that always have a level of
skittishness, and they were handled by my pkt at an early age. All of
our cats have been neutered, but seems we get 2+ cats per year that
were abandoned out in our rural area. Most are tame, and wanting
human touch.

I have the opposite problem of a neighbor that does not like cats (or
any other wildlife) and shoots the outdoor cats that have collars with
rabies vaccination tags. SOB ambushes them through an open window.

ignator


That SOB has forgotten that bullets travel into open windows just as
well as out of them.

They dont have to be aimed to kill..but it certainly catches their
attention the moment they come under fire.

Use of a 2 liter bottle over the muzzle of a .22 would be indicated
.......




I am the Sword of my Family
and the Shield of my Nation.
If sent, I will crush everything you have built,
burn everything you love,
and kill every one of you.
(Hebrew quote)