[Liam-]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

I know what you're saying and I agree it is a slippery slope,but what if the burglar had the intent to hurt the homeowner ? .

There's been some horrible crimes where a family or person is quietly at home, and next thing they're being threatened and beaten. Some have been killed just for being in their own homes.

So we'll never know if this intruder was just robbing the place , which is bad enough or whether they were going to cause physical harm.

Exactly, we’ll never know, so using a whole load of what ifs to justify somebody being mauled to death for a crime that would have gotten them a couple years in prison by law, to me, is backwards, how do we congratulate a dog for killing an intruder but expect the same dog to tell the difference between a genuine threat and an innocent one, dogs don’t discriminate when it comes to unknown threats to their territory, whether it be a burglar in their 20’s or 30’s, or a child retrieving a flyaway ball as TS alluded to, to a dog, a threat is a threat, if you’re okay with it killing one of them, you have to acknowledge that there’s a clear possibility that they’ll take it upon themselves to kill the other, and that’s a very dangerous precedent to set.