My wife and I like to take a nice walk through our rural neighborhood and watch the sun set over the Skagit River as fades into the Puget sound. It is a nice usually quiet walk.Unfortunately some bad dog owners think that when they no longer want or can afford that out of control dog, dropping it off in a rural neighborhood is a good idea. It is not, although it does happen.
These are the dogs that require us to carry protection and I would rather use 800,000 volts of dog deterrent in the form of a telescoping stun baton as apposed to shooting my pistol during an attack from a stray dog. It would be nice to think that one day we might not need to worry about the possibility of being attacked by a viscous stray dog. Until that day I will carry a high voltage dog repellent stun baton or other protection device when for protection when the wife and I are on our evening walk.
Not that it would bother me very much to have to shoot a vicious stray dog, my concern would be more for the danger to my neighbors or their animals from a stray bullet. That will never be a problem with a telescoping stun baton. After a couple of seconds of being shocked by 800,000 volts of dog deterrent, that stray dog will probably run and hide when it sees us coming down the street.