Posted on 04/20/2009 12:39:38 PM PDT by fanfan
A crying Elena Zappia opened her cellphone at her Greely home last night and looked at a picture of her two-year-old husky, Mika.
"I don't want to see that," her fiance Joe Priori interrupted, his eyes welling up with tears. Through damp eyes he looked at the closed phone.
"My poor dog."
Cops shot dead both their dogs -- Mika and Azzuro, a three-year-old German shorthaired pointer -- after police felt threatened by the animals' reportedly aggressive behaviour.
Zappia, 23, was walking the dogs behind their home on Emerald Links Dr. just before 1 p.m. yesterday when the dogs ran after a deer.
WITNESSED SHOOTING
After driving around the area, Zappia's search ended just west of her home. She approached the intersection of Mitch Owens and Manotick Station roads surprised to see several cops around a field. She was just in time to watch police destroy Azzuro.
"I saw them shoot the dog," Zappia said. "They turned around and said, 'Sorry you had to see that'. "
Mika was about 15 metres away, also dead.
Residents in the area called Ottawa police when they noticed the dogs wandering around.
According to police, one of the dogs tried to bite an officer. Another officer shot at the dog to stop the attack and the wounded animal ran away. Minutes later, officers shot both dogs dead after the dogs ran at them, police said in a statement last night.
No officer was injured.
After learning what happened, Priori ran from his home to the field. He stared at Mika, but police wouldn't let him approach his dead dogs.
"I just wanted to pet her," Priori later said at his home. "That's all I wanted to do."
The couple said they understand if officers had to harm Azzuro if the dog was being aggressive, but they can't comprehend why cops shot Mika, a dog that got her name from the Italian word meaning "friend."
There were numerous witnesses around the field where the dogs were on the loose.
Henry Bakker said one dog was very aggressive, but the husky appeared to be playing and it wasn't being a threat.
Priori, 29, said he wants "justice" but he isn't sure what would satisfy him. He's anxious to see the police reports.
The professional standards unit usually looks into incidents of officers discharging their service firearms.
The police force sent a crisis counsellor to Priori and Zappia's home later in the day as Zappia's father quietly buried the dogs on his property, keeping the identification tags as painful memories.
Sad ping.
There’s a bad Canadian joke here, won’t kill pirates but will, dogs.
Shorthair pointer? That’s like shooting a Labrador.
Snicker. No dog poop for you, eh?
Maybe you should change your post name to Thespian, as in drama queen.
I feel sorry for them, but she should have had control of her dogs.
Never trust a dog not to bite, and never trust a cop not to shoot.
Never did, but I know what I’m talking about. Lookup Dog Heartworm and humans, and child blindness from pet parasites is now the leading cause of blindness of children in America. However, go to your doctor and tell him/her “Doc, I think I have parasites” and he/she will ask you “What countries have you traveled too?” Funny, ha ha, America doesn’t have parasites, remember?
Also, ever seen the commericials for Abilify, for people whose depression medication still leaves them depressed? It’s real name is Aripiprazole and it’s an anti-parasitical, I know what I’m talking about on this. People are taking animals that have to be dewormed (like cattle and pigs) into thier homes, they’re called cats and dogs, and they can and readily do transmit these worms to humans, go ahead, poke fun at me, I just gave you direct info from the CDC.
Maybe dogs just don't like uniforms pointing guns at them.
“I don’t want peoples cats or dogs crapping thier parasites in my yard where my children play, and that includes hookworms, roundworms, heartworms, pinworms and all kinds of other parasites, some very deadly to humans. And you foolish pet owners, don’t think they don’t get into humans, oh, they do, and only a fool would think they wouldn’t.”
Dude, go back on your meds....
Canadian Cops Covering their A**es?
Canadian Cops Covering their A**es?
And, just where is it that fleas implant their eggs to hatch and mature?
They’re just practicing.
The oligarchy reportedly is going to give them
jury/judge/executioner powers and orders
to shoot all law breakers dead on the spot.
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