Enforce the law.
These Wyoming statutes comprise the state’s dog laws.
§ 6-5-211 Injuring or killing a police dog, fire dog, search and rescue dog or police horse prohibited; penalties.
(a) Any person who knowingly, willfully and without lawful cause or justification permanently disables or inflicts death upon any animal defined in subsection (b) of this section shall be liable for restitution by order of a court and shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years, a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or both.
(b) As used in this section:
(i) “Police dog” means any dog that is owned, or the service of which is employed, by a law enforcement or corrections agency for the principal purpose of aiding in the detection of criminal activity, enforcement of laws or apprehension of offenders;
If this article is to be believed, he left his car running at idle speed for SIX HOURS while he was in the police station. But he did not turn on the air conditioner.
Hard to find any explanation but sheer idiocy.
So, not even police dogs are safe from the po-po.
He should at least be charged with felony criminal negligence.
This is the hottest weekend we have had in Houston this summer and yesterday a woman left her baby in the car and went to the mall. The child didn’t die, someone heard the child crying and got him out and to the hospital, the mother went to jail!
How this can happen again and again with children and dogs, show up on the news and the morons among us keep on doing it. What kind of a world do these people live in?
a follow-on article at the same Channel 13 source ‘cost to taxpayers,’ reads it will cost the city $40K to replace the officerdog. I don’t know if “not providing a dog with adequate water, food, or protection from the weather” really describes what happened, unless protection from weather includes man-made sealed up car and leaking carbon monoxide fumes kind of weather as ‘weather’.
Something in there about a trainee ridealong muddles the picture. But I’m left asking, does the PD have a safe kennel area for their officerdogs and, if not, why not?
I can see firing the guy, but sending someone to prison over a dog is evil. It’s a dog. Get another one.
The police budget is too big if they can afford to leave the engine running that long.
Dick...
Same thing happened in Jackson County, Ms. last year.
Guess what he was charged with?
NOTHING
The car was running for six plus hours? What. He doesn’t pay for the fuel I guess. Then no ac on. Makes you wonder what he did all night before his shift. Too bad he didn’t forget to leave the poor dog home. Did he get a nap at his desk too? Darwin Award...
Police Dog, huh.
Well, as done to others — put death on the table.
Too stupid to be a policeman.
I wondered about that — why is it a misdemeanor, when if a citizen killed the dog it would be a felony?
exactly.
Good point.