Zeus, a 9 month old boxer.
Posted on 03/21/2012 8:43:30 PM PDT by Altariel
REDDING, Calif. -- After Redding Police were forced to kill two dogs Friday night, a Northstate family is now offering two puppies to console the family.
Patricia Daniels said she knows how hard it is to lose a puppy so she wanted to help out, donating two pups.
One is a cha-weenie; that's a Chihuahua-Dachshund mix. The other is a Chihuahua-Pomeranian-Zoolo mix.
Patricia said two girl dogs will be ready next week and there's a boy dog who'll be ready in about a month.
The dogs that were killed were a pregnant chihuahua and an 8 month old boxer.
The incident started about 5:30 p.m. Friday in North Redding when police were searching for 33 year old Danny Tompkins of Redding. He was a fugitive wanted on a $25,000 felony arrest warrant for probation violations.
Tompkins ran to the Motel 6 on Twinview Blvd and knocked on the door of Jennifer Obanion, who was staying at the motel with her fiance.
Police tell us Tompkins was in the room briefly and exited. As officers started to cuff him, Obanion's boxer puppy reportedly "charged" at both officers and Tompkins.
Officers tell us they fatally shot the boxer to prevent it from attacking officers. The pregnant chihuahua was caught in the line of fire and was also killed.
The suspect was eventually arrested.
Redding Police tell us they're always sympathetic when they have to kill a dog, but their priority is to protect the public and fellow officers.
Corporal Shawn McGinnis tell us, "Officers are given lots of different tools at their disposal such as tasers, pepper mace, other types of less lethal weapons to use against dogs. However, when a dog is actively charging an officer, there's often very little time to get to those weapons and some of those weapons are very slow acting and they may not stop the attack like a firearm can."
When an officer kills an animal, the Police Chief reviews it to determine if it was justified.
were “forced” to kill?
Yeah, “vicious” boxers. I’ve got 2 of them. Was it going to lick the officer to death...?
Yep. Don’t you know it takes a lot of intestinal fortitude to shoot a puppy?
(Do I really need a sarc tag?)
More likely, it was rushing to the officers to greet them.
From one of the comments:
“Burke Peltier · Colorado Technical University
This happens too often to be considered justified. After reading similar story after similar story and seeing videos of dogs being shot by the police, my suspicion is that this is part of the training an officer receives or part of what he learns quickly in the field. It is not the threat that the dog could physically overwhelm a well-built, heavily armed cop. It is the fact that a dog will simply not shutup and follow a cops orders. The police M.O. is to take complete control of the scene and barking dogs can cause the officers to be distracted and we know that they are always on edge and always in fear of the general public. So killing the dog in front of its owner will serve two purposes: one, get rid of the distraction and two, gain complete compliance from the owner who will be likely be in fear of being next.”
The chihuahua mixes are the puppies being offered to the couple whose dogs were killed.
The pregnant chihuahua was, apparently, purebred.
If it’d been the SWAT team they’d have shot the kitty as well.
http://0.tqn.com/w/experts/Boxers-3345/2008/08/Zeus.jpg
Here’s Zeuss, a 9 month old Boxer. Yeah, he looks pretty fierce.
Not that long ago, an officer who admitted to shooting a puppy “charging” at him would have been laughed off the force.
“You shot a boxer puppy AND a chihuahua? Barney Fife, is that you?”
I just can’t understand why anyone would hate pigs.
Zeus, a 9 month old boxer.
There’s a guy in downtown Oakland, by the CVS drug store, who sells “stuff” from a sidewalk table. He always has a dog with him. I’m no expert, but she’s similar to a boxer. Anyway, she’s very friendly and he allows her to run loose, no leash. Everybody who hangs around that area knows her and a lot of people bring little doggie treats for her.
So today he had a second dog. A male. It seemed just as friendly and people were petting him and fussing over him just like his “sister.” The owner had him on a leash part of the time and off the leash part of the time. (I watched quite a bit of this as I had to kill some time today.)
So a woman walked up and fussed over the bitch for a while and then stepped over and began petting the male. The ladydog stuck her head in to get a little more petting and when the woman swtched her attention, that male dog went from friendly to killer in the bat of an eye. Looked to me like he went straight for her throat. Fortunately, he was on his leash at that moment and the owner reacted as quickly as the dog. And to give the dog credit, when the owner said “down” he laid down. But that could have been a very ugly incident.
Intact dogs are often very protective of intact-—female dogs.
Sounds like the male dog needs a lot more training and socialization.
He looks like a real sweetie, doesn’t he? Too bad he only has three legs.
I knew a three-legged standard poodle when I was a kid. His name was `Jet,’ believe it or not.
Have you ever heard the story of the Georgia chicken farmer
who raised three-legged chickens for Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Cat’s got your tongue. That’s all right.
Well, this poultry farmer figured that everyone loves drumsticks, right? And the feed wouldn’t be that much more to grow another leg. He thought he would make a lot of money with them, so he managed to breed some 3-legged Rhode Island reds.
The KFC buyer came out to his farm to see them, finding the story a little hard to believe. He was on a dirt road and one of the chickens came up beside his car. He didn’t want to run over it so he sped up to 25 mph. The chicken sped up.
KFC’s man hit about 50 miles per by the time he saw the farmer’s big RFD mailbox, and the chicken cut in front of him and was pecking in the yard with all the others by the time he turned in and braked. They cut a deal right there and shook on it.
The problem was that the chickens weren’t as stupid as regular chickens and as you know, they were fast. No one could catch them. They took off for the forest and went feral. You can still see their descendants outside Columbus, GA roosting in the trees.
Moral? Don’t count your three-legged chickens before they’re catched.
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