Posted on 02/18/2011 11:26:26 AM PST by Immerito
A D.C. police officer shot a dog in a gated community of Foxhall Crescents in D.C. Tuesday afternoon after it menaced the officer and a contractor, police said.
The dog, a Chocolate Lab named Russell, left when the officer approached, police said, but returned as the officer and contractor were talking. The dog displayed an "aggressive posture" and the officer shot the dog, police said.
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More moronic JBTs killing family pets.
A Chocolate Lab displayed “aggressive behavior”?
TOTAL BRAVO SIERRA!
(But just wait for the FR coterie of “cops can do no wrong and all dog shootings are justified” ignoramuses to show up and put their worthless two cents in.)
The photo with the article clearly depicts a savage animal with a truly ferocious countenance...
Seriously, it is nice that it appears the dog will survive.
And I hope the officer is NEVER able to live this down with his colleagues, and that he is shamed in to having to find another job.
Is this becoming some new ‘rite of passage’ for police officers ?
I have a better, more final solution....based on the Code of Hamurabi.
Yes. We need:
More Andy Taylors,
Fewer Barney Fifes
I am glad to read that the dog is expected to survive. I hope the officer’s career is dead, however. I do not like to contemplate my reaction as a dog owner if Russell was my dog.
It angers me as well, but you have to solve it without outrage.
I wonder how many T-shirts you could sell that had “My Dog Was Shot By A Cop”? Or, “My Dog Survived A Cop House Call”?
Right or wrong, expect the “Cops can do no wrong.”, crowd in Three, Two, One, GO!
My lab is 11 years old and the only time she ever growled was went I brought a rescue into the house and it approached her food dish while she was eating....I didn’t think she even knew how as she never did before.. They just ignored each other for the 20 months I had the rescue, but would walk together when I took them out.
Then you are ignorant. Labs have KILLED and MAIMED people.
http://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/1979-1998-breeds-dogs-involved-in-fatal-human-attacks-us.pdf
http://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/dog-attack-deaths-maimings-2010.pdf
Do you mean because the "Cops only do wrong" crowd is already here?
"Of the 2,060 bites, Labrador retrievers made up the biggest percentage on the bite list. Labs accounted for 13.3 percent of the reported bites; pit bulls, 8.4 percent; German shepherds, 7.8 percent; Rottweilers, 3.9 percent; and Chows, 3.5 percent.
Human beings were given dominion over animals for a reason. Humans > Dogs, no matter the breed.
They will stand their ground and bark but I have never heard of one actually attacking someone. We own a Lab and if somebody shot him I would immediately think of finding a tree and some rope and reenacting the next to last scene in the the book and film Gorky Park, Lee Marvin style.
Even though the Labs in your pictures are puppies, I look at my two guys, a 14 year old yellow and a 12 year old black, and looking back at me are those same big brown eyes and soft faces that always seem to be saying, “OK, what’s the game this time, Dad?”
First, Labs are and have been for many years the most popular breed in the US. The numbers of Labs in the sample population almost surely dwarf the numbers of any of the other breeds mentioned.
Second, there is no information about how closely the statistic takers adhered to definitions of the breed. There are a lot of mix breeds that have some Lab in them. How many of those were counted as "Labs" in the sampling? I would submit that a Lab/Shepherd or a Lab/Rottweiler have different personalities and temperments than a purebred Lab.
Finally, there is no information from which you could tell how many of the "bites" were offensive or how many were "defensive." My Labs are big guys, and the older is a decidedly Alpha Male. I could not imagine them ever being aggressive toward a person who was acting normally in their presence. I once put the older Lab in a "down stay" so that he could be petted by an autistic child. The child made odd noises, spastic movements, pulled the dog's ear and got nothing but a sloppy kiss as his reward. However, I could imagine them, particularly the older one, acting very aggressively toward someone who made a threatening move toward them or toward me or my wife. In other words, not all "bites" are equal.
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