I think most of what you are saying is at best orthogonal to the article, where the dogs were not in any way 'bad ass dogs not under control' but simply stupid little house dogs that were in some cases actually /running away/ when they were shot, and the people were not getting in trouble for being threatening in any way but for not being fast enough to lie still and silent on the ground. It's obviously unlikely that you will ever be in this situation, but if it did happen I don't believe it would go as smoothly as you seem to think.
