In Maury County tonight a family grieves the loss of a pet and waits for answers. The family claims a school officer shot their dog.
Posted on 01/07/2006 8:54:36 PM PST by MRMEAN
In Maury County tonight a family grieves the loss of a pet and waits for answers. The family claims a school officer shot their dog.
Just as school let out at Highland Park Elementary School on Friday in Columbia, a family who lives adjacent to the school says a school officer came over and shot their dog.
The family says the officer shot the dog without warning. The two year old Labrador Retriever was shot right in front of Betty Rimaudo’s daughter.
Rimaudo says she confronted the officer.
“ I saw the officer standing there and I said, ‘Did you shoot my dog?’ At that he responded, ‘Yes, I shot your dog,’” Rimaudo recalls.
Rimaudo says she was inside the house when it happened, and apparently the dog got loose. The school officer says the dog charged a teacher, but Rimaudo said the dog, Madison, barked a lot, but was not vicious.
“[She was a] very very gentle animal,” said Rimaudo. In fact, she says the dog never bit anyone, not even in a playful manner.
Animal control had the dog put down when it did not die immediately.
Now Rimaudo says she has a lot of questions for school officials and police.
“I want to know why you would shoot my dog on my property and in such close distance to my children,” said Rimaudo. “I don’t think there is an answer for shooting a pet on private property in front of children."
Rimaudo says it was a traumatic scene for her children.
The name of the school officer is not available yet.
The family says they never had any problem before with their dog and the school. They say they are considering contacting a lawyer if the school doesn't respond.
The dog got loose, charged at a teacher and then ran home?
And the officer shot it after it was home? Did it bite the teacher?
An armed policeman at an elementary school? Must be one tough school.
I assume, like in other places I have lived - animal control isn't the quickest in response time? This poor dog wasn't killed immediately and had to suffer? I can barely get over reading "dog got loose" and then "dog killed on own property" in the same article... how awful for those poor kids.
Yeah, those Labs are vicious.
I'd rather live next to a crackhouse than a school.
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My wife has a three inch scar she can show you. It was made by a Lab who attacked her no provocation. Luckily the owner had insurance.
EVERY Lab I have encountered has been a big goofy bundle of love....I have never seen any reports of PIT Labradors fighting
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HairOfTheDog did you see this? Outrageous and very sad.
Something dosen't make sense here. The dog charged a teacher but was shot on it's own property? I've been charged by a local lab and the owners tod me the same thing, "He wouldn't hurt anybody. He's such a wuss." Be that as it may, it is pretty scary being charged by a large powerful dog, especially when it's barking visciously and has it's hackles raised. I know some breeds are pretty laid back but you just never know when you're meeting a high strung, in-bred, possibly mistreated one. It sounds like the guy was way over reacting and I'm not justifying the shooting but more of the story needs to be known.
This 'officer' shot the dog in their yard? I'd have shot back.
I know what you mean. We just lost our black Lab Shadow after 12 years. She was the sweetest dog you ever met. Three of my friends went out and got a Lab because of Shadow. Every Lab I have ever known would take excessive abuse without biting the instigator.
I had several Labs and I have NEVER seen one that was mean. They are the best dogs in the world around children. My brother-in-law had two of them and two toddlers and they'd crawl up on the dogs pull on them and the labs would just get up and move across the room.
I suspect the idiot school officer was probably some cop renting himself out to the school was the reason he had a weapon.
No. No more of the story needs to be known if the dog was in her yard. It matters not one iota what he might have done earlier. Once she was back in her yard there was no justification for shooting her.
This officer needs to lose his gun and his job. Next time he overreacts it might be a child he shoots.
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