What are you going to do? Put chloroform over its nose? Inject it with a sedative? Spray it with something? May I ask whether you have you ever owned a dog? ;)

What are you going to do? Put chloroform over its nose? Inject it with a sedative? Spray it with something? May I ask whether you have you ever owned a dog? ;) I can't think of any quicker and overall safer means of sedation than simply shooting it in the head. It's sad that a dog has to die, but compared to the mess an angry dog can make, its life is simply not worth much. Not that I really want to sound like I'm defending the policepeople in question here, because that dog shouldn't have died - but it shouldn't have died because there shouldn't have been a situation where they needed to shoot it, not because shooting an attacking dog is the wrong thing to do. (Yes, I have had a dog. I loved it very much, and it seemed to return the favour. But you have to be clear-eyed about these things.)