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If the postal workers and meter readers are smart enough to recognize a threatening dog vs. a friendly dog, then why can't the cops use the same sense? Macing a JRT, what an idiot. My mail carrier and meter readers always have treats and my dog loves them!

Very good point. Postal workers are exposed to many more dogs, and they just spray the aggressive ones with mace. I saw a PW do this one time, and the dog was stopped cold, and turned and ran, but was still alive.

"Postal workers are exposed to many more dogs, and they just spray the aggressive ones with mace. I saw a PW do this one time, and the dog was stopped cold, and turned and ran, but was still alive."

That is what makes me livid about all these (far too many) cop-shoots-dog stories. I don't blame a cop or anyone else for defending themselves, but these guys keep doing two things that are inexcusable:

1. They don't educate themselves to distinguish between real and slight threats
2. They use bullets when mace would do.

I'm a small lightweight, but had this happened in my home, these guys woulda had to peel me off and tend to some serious face scratches and gonadal bruising I'd have inflicted til they cuffed me.

...makes my blood boil. Big sissies.