Family Outraged After Officer Shoots Their Dog (5 lb Chihuahua)

WCPO ^ | 06/09/2009 | Lynn Giroud

[AAABEST]

There were two cops in on this and neither had the brains nor the ethics to see how wrong this was. They were ‘following procedures’. This is chilling.

They're "procedure" must read something like this:

PROCEDURE FOR SMALL DOGS FOUND LOOSE IN THEIR YARDS.

1. Corner it, then attempt to pick it up with your bare hands.

2. If it becomes frightened or protective and nips at you, don't back away or call animal control. Shoot it multiple times, then leave a note for the owner.

[AAABEST]

*their*

Why do I always do that?

[TChris]

Why do I always do that?

Don't you mean "Wye dew eye awl-weighs due that?" ;-)

Gotta love homonyms!

[papertyger]

I doubt that. I am sure there is lots of other good ones out there.

So everyone keeps saying... I tend to wonder seeing that these theoretical "good ones" never seem to turn in the "bad ones."

Also, I should explain my usage of terms. When I say "good cop" I'm using the same formula as the saying that there is no such thing as a "good muslim." A muslim who is "good" can not be a very devout practitioner of islam; while a strict practitioner of islam can not be "good."

In the same way, I am developing the opinion that the practical requirements of being a modern day police officer preclude anyone who is "good" from being able to tolerate those requirements, while anyone who can tolerate those requirements can not be truly "good."

[papertyger]

Yeah, that BART story was the last “presumption of innocence” straw for me, too.

[Cecily]

“There were two cops in on this and neither had the brains nor the ethics to see how wrong this was. They were ‘following procedures’. This is chilling.”

Exactly. It makes you wonder how they would treat an average citizen in a stressful situation (I wouldn’t want to be the one to find out). These fools do not need to carry firearms or have any power over the citizenry.

[Filo]

I doubt that. I am sure there is lots of other good ones out there. I know a cop that goes to my local dog park. From what I have seen he seems like a great person. I doubt he would ever do something like this to a dog.

Ask him what he thinks of this incident.

A "standard issue" cop will start dissembling about how they won't pass judgment or they weren't there or some other malarkey to keep them from having to admit that these morons screwed up.

If he admits that these two cops were f-ups with no reservations, hemming and hawing then he's a part of the 1%.

[Slings and Arrows]

Pets is a topic in General/Chat. This story is in News/Activism.

[green pastures]

Okay, so it’s limited to topics within the primary/main topic.

Thanks...

[Slings and Arrows]

De nada.

[Lurker]

That officer later explained to the family that he was following procedure.

My attorney would be filing a subpeona for a copy of that procedure so fast it'd make this idiot cops head spin.

[Politicalmom]

Now, now. The cop might have broken a fingernail!!

[Cowgirl]

I think most of you are missing the point! It was policy procedure just like they have at the schools. It didn’t matter that none of it made any sense. It is the Nazi-rules we are living under right at this time. “We the people” are no longer in charge.

[Salamander]

Highly unlikely.

For well over 7000 years, they’ve hunted and killed in packs.

They *never* “accidentally” [or otherwise] harm one another.

They have an uncanny and somewhat unnatural deeply ingrained pack mentality.
[almost like a “hive mind” sort of thing where anything “other” is the “enemy”]

In fact, if I have to yell at one of them or go stop one from hurting the rabbits that frequent my yard, *all* the rest of them rush over to make sure *I’m* not harming the one I’m running after.

I have 4 bitches and one neutered male.
If 2 of the girls bicker over a bone or toy, the other 3 will rush in to “break it up” by inserting their bodies between the bickerers.

This is who they are.

[but yes, I was VERY lucky to snatch her up before that freaking Pterodactyl did]...:))

[Salamander]

If you *really* want to shudder, you should go read about what eagles are capable of.

I *used* to think my dogs were “safe” because an eagle couldn’t “fly off” with them.

The size of animals they can successfully kill and then stand there and eat is incredible.

I have a hybrid wild/domestic rabbit in a bunny run who was hit by a huge red tail hawk in my goat pasture.

He was too heavy to carry away but the hawk was doing his level best to kill him, regardless.

By the time we got to him, the hawk had flown off and “Booger”, as he was later named [because the first thing I said was “You sure are one lucky little booger!”] had freaked out and run into my smoke house to hide.

There was blood on the snow but none on the rabbit.
I think he gave the hawk what-for.

Unfortunately, his typically fragile bunny back was injured by the impact of the strike to the point where he can no longer run properly or survive in the wild so I’ve tended him lovingly all these years.

I always stay out with my dogs too, weather be damned.

Thanks about the dogs.
They’re pretty cool but they’re labor intensive.
[special fencing, constant vigilance to avoid prey-driven take offs, etc]

I look forward to going back to having Dobermans again.
They actually *listen* to ~you~ and not some internal, ancient primal drum beat of “Run! Hunt! Kill!”....:))

[Salamander]

As a contrast, we saw a state trooper risking his own life to save a wounded red tail hawk from oncoming traffic on the “killer side” of a mountain curve in Cumberland MD.

We asked if he needed help and he said no, he was just keeping it from going back onto the road and waiting for the local raptor rescue group to show up.

Then again, these are hillbillies and farm boys turned cops so maybe that’s the difference.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I, Chihuahua! Somebody needs to be disarmed and pasturized off the force.

[netmilsmom]

Wow! That’s a story!

>>and not some internal, ancient primal drum beat of “Run! Hunt! Kill!”....:)<<

In our house it’s “I love you, pet me, I love you, run with me, I love you....Squirrel!!!!”

(Have you seen Pixar’s “Up?” Doug the Dog is our Minnie)

[Snurple]

VIDEO...Hunting wolves with a golden eagle in Mongolia. Yes an eagle can kill a wolf

[Salamander]

Thanks but I think I’ll pass on watching that.