Man held after police dog is stabbed

LA Times ^ | august 1 2007 | DancesWithCats

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Dogs are not people, they can’t be controlled at all like a trained officer can, what if you are innocent of the crime that the dog is going after you for?

I would trust the good judgment of a well-trained GSD over just about any human I know: police officer or not.

> If a dog bites me I will fight back, that is just basic human instinct.

If my dog bites you, you will scream and pass out. That’s just basic medical shock.

> They are great tools for officers, but they are just that, not officers themselves.

Officers are great tools for GDSs, but they are not GSDs themselves and can never be: their snouts aren’t long enough, their teeth aren’t sharp enough and they don’t have a big bushy tail.

Still, an Officer under the control of a well-trained GSD is still a very valuable member of the team.

[CremeSaver]

He looks so much like my beautiful baby. I would love to show him to you but I have to drag him out from the closet where he hides when it thunders.

[indcons]

“Just another reason people like you and the mods have made FR a less enjoyable place to visit. Enjoy your master race.”

Why don’t you claim right away that the “mods and I” are Nazis? That way, what little is left of your credibility can be flushed down the drain....LOL.

Look here, wise one (and I use the term sarcastically in case you get a different interpretation) - what’s breaking news for the lowest intellectual denominator on FR (psst...I mean, people like YOU) isn’t necessarily the same thing for the rest of us (99.9% of posters here).

Are you one of those children left behind that we hear so much about? Do you feel “speechul”?

[DancesWithCats]

I would love to show him to you but I have to drag him out from the closet where he hides when it thunders

We had a lovely white shepherd/wolf mix who was being considered as a K9. He performed beautifully and had been chosen as one of the absolute best in the class, until they got to the firing range. LOL He ran and hid and had to be dragged out. End of career. Poor Major. He was actually one of the best dogs we ever owned, so intelligent and loving and loyal but thunder? Gun fire? Fireworks? He was LONG gone!

[CremeSaver]

He sounds like my Cosmo, LOL! We really don’t know much about our boy’s early life. We found him sitting in the dog pound, five years old and not much chance of being adopted what with all the adorable puppies that he had to compete with. He had been there over a month cowering in the corner of a cage too scared to come forward and sell himself. My husband spotted him and he was hooked. Our Cosmo has come a long way in the five years that we have had him but the one fear that he can’t seem to overcome is his fear of loud noises, and with ears like his that’s a real drawback. LOL!

P.S. We’ll keep him anyway. :O)

My husband put in for the K9 squad when he was a cop. His police department had so few dogs that it was virtually impossible to get that assignment, but he never stopped trying. They are great dogs.