[familyop]

The addled pit bull religionists posted their propaganda to the Net without the important facts and had the Sheriff bombed with phone calls.

[catman67]

I thought they wanted an ISIS pet sitter!

[Lurker]

At my house that little stunt would have resulted in headless cops.

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[familyop]

"On Monday, Goodwin told The Telegraph that the officers offered him the option to call a veterinarian and pay to have the head removed."

But the owner of the dangerous animal chose to cut his own dog's head off before making an online announcement with a video to his fellow pit bull owners around the country.

[nickcarraway]

I have nothing to do with pit bulls, but ordering someone to cut a head off? Seems to me a veterinarian or other medical professional should have been called in?

[DesertRhino]

No problem if the cops want to take the dog carcass or if they want to behead it for the vet, whatever. But they cannot force the owner to do it. All the owner is required to do legally is stand aside and not interfere.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So they wanted the dead dog, who had bitten someone tested for rabies.

Seems reasonable.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Pretty standard way to test for rabies. It has been so for years. Tails you win. Heads you lose.
 

[LTC.Ret]

IF your dog bites someone and is not delivered for quarantine as required by the law, or dies before the end of the quarantine period, then the head is submitted for Rabies testing. This is not done to be difficult or mean -— it is done to make sure the person that the dog bit is not exposed to rabies. The same kind of people who intentionally own fighting dogs often don’t vaccinate the dogs either. There are, in fact, rabies positive dogs diagnosed by test every year. Rabies is considered “always” fatal in people who are not properly treated after a bite exposure -— 99.999% of the time. Fighting with the officers enforcing the law to protect the bite victim is foolish and unreasonable.

[tired&retired]

The cop’s wife said the same thing to him when she caught him having an affair!

“Man says cops ordered him to cut off his dog’s head”

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Those deputies were idiots for the wrong reason.

Rabies is insanely contagious. Nobody should touch that dog in any way shape or form unless they are biologically protected. Seriously, blood, fluids, droplets in the air, just about anything must be regarded as dangerously contaminated.

In this case, get a large trash can and put a double liner in it. Then, while wearing protective gear, pick up the dead dog with a noose pole and drop it in the can.

Before you leave, get a pump sprayer and decontaminate the ground and any visible blood with strong bleach water. This includes the noose pole. If it cannot be cleaned, then it must be burned.

[familyop]

Okay. Now, taxpayers, some have said that such samples (potentially rabid dog’s heads) should only be taken by public offices instead of private veterinarians. This is fun. ;-)

[PhiloBedo]

Anyone who thinks a pitbull,let alone a rabid one, is a harmless,loveable creature, is mentally unbalanced.

[LadyDoc]

Checking the brain for rabies. What is the problem?
If the dog had rabies vaccine, it would not be needed.