Posted on 11/26/2011 6:20:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
A gun-toting man on a bicycle in South Florida shot and killed a Doberman Saturday, saying the dog was threatening him.
Dan Abou, who was training the 2-year-old to be a therapy dog, acknowledged Scooby was in his unfenced front yard without a leash, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. But he described Scooby as a gentle animal and said many dogs are allowed out without restraints in his neighborhood in Davie with no problems.
"It's very alarming that someone would be riding a bike with a gun at 11 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day," Abou said Friday. "That man came here looking for trouble. I still can't believe this."
Police were investigating the shooting. Investigators say the cyclist had a permit for his gun.
The Doberman Rescue League of Broward took Scooby in after the emaciated dog was found on the street. Abou adopted him in July and planned to use him as a therapy dog at senior citizens centers.
Tip: please don't try that with a pit bull. :-)
“He should have had either pepper spray or ammonia in a spray bottle.”
Or a fly swatter,
or a bottle of Listerine,
or a bag of Cheetos,
or a recording of Slim Pickens
or a picture of Nanny Pelosi
or ....
Yes, a man brought a beautiful Golden Retriever into a doctor’s office the other day while we were there.
It was kind of startling to see a dog and I immediately thought ‘service dog.’ But then I realized the owner was not handicapped so I talked to him and he explained that this was a therapy dog.
Therapy dogs have to be registered and take stringent tests to ascertain how calm and friendly they are. Once they pass the test, they get a dog tag certifying them and they can go in anywhere.
And, yes, all breeds work, but labs and goldens have the best disposition for it.
I've been mauled, bitten, and chased by vicious dogs of all sizes--I run. I always carry a small SA pistol. When the attack happens there is little time to assess: should I use the lethal or non-lethal deterrent?
Here is the issue: Should I allow the animal tear my flesh and let modern medicine patch things up? Absurd. The injury could be irreparable. So, attacking animals get shot.
P.S. Spotted a very large coyote the other day. Spotted two the day before. It's not just domestic animals that might be a threat. We haven't even begun to discuss 2-legged predators.
Why aren’t we told the cyclist’s name? Since we are told that he is a licensed gun owner, per minimum, the police know who he is.
I’m no expert in etymology, but the name “Abou” appears to be Arabic. I wonder if that holds a clue to a possible motive for this apparently unprovoked shooting?
It seems to me that a left-wing paper would have a vested interest in publishing the name of someone who uses a gun in what either was unlawful dispatch of an owner’s property (shooting a dog in its own yard) or lawful self-defense (assuming the unleashed dog left the yard to pursue the bicyclist). Yet, they do not.
The question is: why not?
Thing too, where did he think or didn’t think where the bullet might go after hitting the dog?
I expect that you are more familiar with doberman rescues than I am.
Would it be safe to assume that Scooby had most likely been trained and socialized before being adopted?
Loose dogs are very dangerous when one is on a bike. They run at the wheels just like they do on a car and snap at you too.I know I’ve had one that close but was able to give it a good kick in the snout that sent it running home.
I suspect that the dog jumped the fence to get to the bike....
According to the mail man we know that stuff does not stop 100% of dogs.For all we know he sprayed the dog first then shot it when that didn’t work.
Velo dog pistol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velo-dog
I was in Southern Indiana in the early 60s. I remember seeing one of these puppies. It was covered with reddish brown and black spots. It looked like those wild dogs in Africa that natives have. Really creepy. I understand how they could scare somebody.
(Crane Division (NSWC Crane), located in Crane, Indiana)
Extremely so.
They’re well aware of societal prejudices and the rescues have to pass behavioral tests before being adopted out.
The [rare] dogs who don’t pass usually wind up staying at the shelter or a foster home with somebody who has experience handling the breed.
Of course, there are always gutless cowards who think *every* Dobermann is “threatening them”.
Just like people, some dogs will attack through a mist of mace and do you serious damage. Also, there are a lot of problems with Mace, such as wind blowing it away from the target and even back on yourself, and it's extreme short range. Particularly against a dog because it can move so fast, if the Mace defense fails, there will not be time to fall back to a lethal weapon.
I'm a dog lover, but a doberman running free is a problem waiting to happen. This is the owner's fault, not the shooter's.
Fifty years ago most dogs ran loose without serious incident. Then bed wetters came along demanding lease laws. Now you want to make criminals out of those who don't conform perfectly to your phobia. The real amazing fact is that those "evil" Russians actually tolerate about 26,000 feral dogs roaming Moscow. S trip to Moscow should send you into an apocalyptic fit.
I remember many years ago, when I was a young lady a friend and I were walking down the sidewalk singing gently together the song “In The Name of Jesus Demons have to flee. In The Name of Jesus we have the victory”. A big German Shepherd dog came charging at us from between two houses. It looked like it meant business. We kept on singing and walking but turned our heads in it’s direction as we sang “In The Name of Jesus demons have to flee”. It was coming full charge but turned and ran like a scalded cat as fast as it could away from us. I wonder if it saw a big Angel or something. It was the power of God that saved us from being attacked that day.
Gang Bangers don’t bother with permits much and cops don’t need them.
Police were investigating the shooting. Investigators say the cyclist had a permit for his gun.
The usual load of postal dog bites had been about 60,000 per year ~ and that dropped to nearly 0 in a short time as folks learned that "little Foo Foo" could be one of the world's costliest dogs.
The leash law thing has come along behind that action ~ since the data shows that people can control their animals if the stakes are made high enough.
Now, does that mean bicyclists should be shooting dogs? Probably not ~ after all, a little bite could mean a trip to the courthouse and that'd make sure that dog never came back, nor would the replacement dog ~ although in this case the dog owner probably didn't have much worth suing him for.
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