Spyder- I don't know what's there to debate about. The guy lied about his involvement until he got really caught in his lie. Strike one. The guy admitted he went INSIDE to retrieve a weapon to "defend" himself from a threat that's OUTSIDE. ????. HMMMM, let's see here. He got into his house where he was now "safe" to then go BACK to where he says the "scary" animal is to do what?????? Strike two. He then stabs the animal because he "nipped" at him???? When the animal has clear evidence of NEVER having that perpensity before???? Strike three IMO.

Had this been a rabid dog attacking an innocent child, no problem. Had this been a dog that had a history of aggressiveness or biting, no problem. Had this been a situation where the dog was attacking that guy and he had to do that to get the dog off him, absolutely no problem. Noone of that happened in this case. So I truly don't see how any compassionate human being could not be upset that a harmless animal was killed in that fashion.

Can you?