Buzz,
I think Bill was just trying to get the point across that we live in completely different environments. I live in the most dope infested area in the country and he has problems with wild animals. The ranchers here are allowed to protect their livestock, but they can't go to any one's house and shoot a dog no matter if they chased it all the way home. If they are having domestic dog problems and can't get the dog while it is on their property, they can follow it and then call Animal Control and they will take care of it. As for the bears and such, they can and do shoot them, but fortunately they stay up in the mountains and canyons for the most part unless their food supply gets short, and this drought is causing some of them to come into town and rummage through garbage cans and bins. As you said, if anyone around here ran into someones house with a gun in their hand, they had best be shooting or they will be shot. That is the blessings that the dopers have brought to this area. Trust no one that you don't know. Sad and it wasn't that way when I first moved up here, but has grown worse every year.
Ron
