Posted on 12/15/2004 3:39:05 PM PST by Rebelbase
A Florida man has been charged with animal cruelty for biting his Jack Russell terrier as punishment.
Police say he used a 90 kilogram bull mastiff in an attempt to keep back officers who arrived to arrest him.
The mother of the man's girlfriend called police because she was concerned about an argument between him and her daughter concerning his unusual method of discipline for his dog Lady.
Officers kicked down the man's apartment door when they heard an argument and a barking dog.
The dog owner, Mount Lee Lacy, was holding the mastiff named Breaker on a taut leash two metres inside the door. The officers drew their guns but didn't fire.
Lacy, 21, was handcuffed and jailed on Saturday on one count each of felony animal cruelty and resisting arrest without violence.
He remains in the Alachua County Jail after failing to find $US25,000 ($A33,000) bail.
"He said that biting the dog was good punishment and that's how you train them, that dogs bite so that's what they understand," Police Sergeant Keith Kameg said. AdvertisementAdvertisement
"When an officer went to check on [Lady], she was cowering in the back of her crate as if the officer was going to hurt her."
Police reported Lady's left front paw was bloody from a bite. Jack Russell terriers normally weigh no more than seven kilograms.
"If you are inflicting injury or breaking skin, or the dog is responding to pain, you are not doing any good," said Pepe Peruyero, a former police officer who operates a dog training school in nearby High Springs.
I wanna see him bite the mastif!
No, kidding. He'd only do that once.
It's a very poorly written story though. I thought you had to go to school to be a 'journalist'.
Not breaking news; already posted several times; will surely be taken down shortly.
A dog will willingly present that part in any confrontation including a bite or attack, for it is their throat region they defend. O'l fido will go down like a yelping pussycat. It's like the Klingon Spock pinch from Startrek. I've used it on many a dog and it's the mother of all immobilizing sources of pain for a dog.
Biting a dog back is just plain old dumb.
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