*This guy's been trainer of recalcitrant celebrity dogs for decades. Cesar is simply the darling of the rap set and Oprah.
Posted on 05/06/2006 5:43:04 AM PDT by Puppage
HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. -- Police officers on Long Island fired nine bullets at a pit bull on Thursday after the dog attacked a woman.
Suffolk County Police said officers were called to the home of Melanie Auletta, of Huntington Station, shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday. She was trapped in her home by her neighbor's pit bull, which wouldn't leave her yard.
Auletta had been attacked previously by the dog, and eight complaints have been filed with police about the dog this year. The dog's owner wasn't home.
Police Officer Timothy Tonkin attempted to lasso the dog using an animal control device, but couldn't secure the dog due to its aggressiveness
The dog began to attack another woman who was walking by. Officer Tonkin and two other officers diverted the dog's attention from the woman, who wasn't injured.
The pit bull turned on the officers and attacked Tonkin, who fired one round from his service weapon at the dog, striking him in the chest. The dog attacked a second officer, who also fired one round, striking the dog in the side.
The animal continued to chase the officers, and they fired nine shots, hitting the dog four times. The officers were able to lasso the wounded dog and turned him over to the Huntington town dog warden. The dog was in stable condition at a local veterinarian's office.
I'd like to see anyone on this forum do better. Pit Bull-sized rapidly moving target. You miss, you get chomped. Note that the officers did not get chomped. Looks like their shooting skills are fine to anyone but a keyboard Rambo.
*This guy's been trainer of recalcitrant celebrity dogs for decades. Cesar is simply the darling of the rap set and Oprah.
>been trainer<
Sheesh, I better get another cup of coffee. Make that, "been A trainer".
Actually some serious schooling in stress fire techniques - and lots of it.
What are you some kinda politician running for office :-P lol
Does this mean we'll start having threads where morons have dick-measuring contests about shooting blue heelers?
Pits will eat those things for a snack. I have seen it firsthand.
You're right about the IQ quotient, though.
I absolutely would not own a pit-bull.
We periodically had to do the same thing in our compounds in Vietnam.
Warning was given well beforehand for the troops to get the dogs that were actually pets over to the military vets to be vaccinated and tagged. Only a few actually were taken through the process. On the designated day, the preferred weapon of choice for the cull team was a shotgun with 00 buckshot delivered at very close range. Dogs can be pretty tough animals. Sometimes the first shot was not immediately fatal and a follow-up shot was necessary to finish them off.
Still, even for combat troops, doing the deed was a particularly cold blooded thing to do, since most of the unfortunate dogs were just trying to stay alive and were not aggressive at all; just out of luck.
C'est le guerre.
My dog, Faith, is a shelty/blue heeler mix, and she is only dangerous to socks and underwear.
Why didn't they just freaking kill it?
My fiancee wants to get either a rottie or a pit, from a pound no less!
Any suggestions on how to explain that me, my son and our small, yippy dog will not be living with a four-legged demon dog?
be very, very careful.
Probably couldn't with witnesses (including an animal control officer) standing right there.
Anyway, finishing off the wounded aggressor is a bad habit to get into. Never know who is going to be filming you with a video camera or one of those video cell phones thingys. Better to just kill them outright in the initial engagement. If you don't, you've got to treat them, dog or human.
Of course, I'm writing this as a retired Marine. Police have a different set of rules they must follow. Everytime I watch "COPS," I am amazed by their restraint.
The first shot got the dog in the chest, the second in his side. I'd be surprised, too, that he wasn't down after that. Sounds like the panicky shooting started after that.
My neighbor is a cop. Drug Task Force in a major CT city. They served a warrant on an apartment and when they broke down the door (the dog was trained so as not to make a sound when someone knocked, etc) the pit bull bit his partner on the thigh & would not let go. So, he took his .45 & shot the dog 3 times and it fell to the ground.
They search the home and when they came back out, the dog was gone! They found it dead in the street 4 blocks away. Unreal.
I believe that was their intent, don't ya think?
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
Or Cujo.
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