[LachlanMinnesota]

Even if it is a 50 chain or you don’t know how long it is? Should she wait to have the dog have the chain stretched taught before doing anything about it? What if the slack is never taken up.

I think the officer did not know the chain was thirty feet long. If so, then you have a point, but if not, then she needs some slack at least as long as the slack in the chain.

[fr_freak]

Even if it is a 50 chain or you don’t know how long it is? Should she wait to have the dog have the chain stretched taught before doing anything about it? What if the slack is never taken up.

Why are you asking this question at all? This wasn't in the yard of the house they were investigating; it was in the neighbor's yard. What gives the cops the right to go into a neighboring house's yard, then claim to feel threatened?

I also have to ask what kind of sissy gets all scared of a dog on a chain? Even if the dog could get to you, unless it it one of the larger, meaner breeds, what could it do to you? Most dogs these days are all bark anyway. I've had big dogs rush at me many times, barking and growling, then they just stop when I stand my ground because they've grown up in a sissified suburb where they are rarely even allowed to bark at people let alone bite them, so they don't really have that kind of aggressiveness.

Meanwhile, these yahoo cops are armed with pepper spray, tasers and batons, but they have to pull the 9mm and start spraying bullets in a residential neighborhood? Guess what - those bullets can penetrate the walls of the cheap cookie-cutter houses they build these days. This dumb b**** is lucky she didn't kill some kid inside the house.

[Don W]

You are forgetting one rather important fact: the cop we are discussing here was TRESPASSING!

She had no right or reason to even BE in that yard. The dog’s owner had heard the commotion and was on his way to bring the dog into the house when this (rhymes with rich) shot his dog in front of him!

May your chains rest lightly upon you.

[Immerito]

Why are you defending a cop who was trespassing on the neighbor’s property?

Do you believe that trespassing and shooting a law abiding citizen’s dog is acceptable behavior for a police officer in America?

[Immerito]

“I think the officer did not know the chain was thirty feet long. If so, then you have a point, but if not, then she needs some slack at least as long as the slack in the chain.”

Secondly, when a dog on a chain goes to investigate a threat, the chain is typically either fully or nearly taut, depending on what is around the dog (trees, poles, etc), the chain may not go out to its full length in any case, so a fully or nearly taut chain may not be the chain’s actual length—even less of a reason to fear a chained dog.

This dog was an eleven year old dog. This is not a young, active pup.

This officer does not belong in a uniform. If she is terrified of eleven year old chained dogs, then she needs to be in another line of work.

[Immerito]

“I think the officer did not know the chain was thirty feet long. If so, then you have a point, but if not, then she needs some slack at least as long as the slack in the chain.”

First of all, I remind you that the cop was trespassing on the neighbor’s property.

Secondly, when a dog on a chain goes to investigate a threat, the chain is typically either fully or nearly taut, depending on what is around the dog (trees, poles, etc), the chain may not go out to its full length in any case, so a fully or nearly taut chain may not indicate the chain’s actual length if it is wrapped around other objects. If it is the case that the chain is wrapped around other obstacles, the dog is rendered even less of a threat and there is even less of a reason to fear a chained dog.

This dog was an eleven year old dog. This is not a young, active pup.

This officer does not belong in a uniform. If she is terrified of eleven year old chained dogs, then she needs to be in another line of work.