Question
A Servamus subscriber who is the Subsection Commander: Firearm Services of the Eastern Cape, received the following question of a dog/animal control officer at a municipality in the Eastern Cape.
This animal control officer wants to know whether it will be legally possible to use either a .22 (short) or an air rifle that is equivalent to a .22 only when it is safe to do so, to shoot dangerous, vicious, feral and marauding dogs (Afrikaans: “gevaarlike/boosaardige/dierlike/wrede/ plunderende honde”) which cannot be captured in any other way.
Accordingly, this officer wants to know whether the above is possible and correct.
Our subscriber wants to know what the answer to this question is “from a legal perspective” (not by means of civilised negotiations between the parties concerned).
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[This is only an extract of an article that is published in Ask Pollex in Servamus: September 2024. This article is available for purchase.]