Posted on 03/10/2008 8:35:12 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Police Officer Faces Charges In K-9's Death
8:39 am EDT March 10, 2008
MIAMI -- A Miami K-9 officer is expected to surrender Monday morning to face animal cruelty charges for allegedly allowing his police dog to starve to death.
Investigators said the 4-year-old bloodhound named Dynasty weighed 33 pounds when she died in November, though she had weighed almost twice that 10 months earlier.
Officer Rondal Brown was relieved of duty while the investigation was pending. His attorney said it's "utter nonsense" to claim the officer intentionally harmed or killed his police dog.
Brown has spent most of his two decades with the Miami police working with police dogs.
Huh???
How does a dog stave to death like that? He didn’t feed it? I can’t believe that.... Have they actually checked to see if something else was wrong with the dog yet?
Did he do anything about the dog losing significant weight?
This sounds definitely odd. I have two dogs and eight cats. The dogs are fine: we watch how much they eat because an overweight dog ends up with painful joints later. Most of the cats are within the normal weight range but two are not - one is fat and the other is geriatric and thin. All have free access to food.
I wonder if that bloodhound had a metabolic disorder or a bad case of parasites. Either way, the officer should have sought medical care for her.
Son of a B$&@#^ should be locked in a four wall cell and starved to death himself and given a good beating on top of it.
I can’t understand what motivates such fiends.
Does seem weird that an officer would deliberately starve a dog to death when he knows the department is going to hold him responsible for the loss of the animal. Police dogs aren’t cheap.
OTH, he better show a clear record of vet checks or he’s got problems.
I think we’re missing some details from this story
Oh dear.
Brown is the second K-9 officer in Miami-Dade County to be investigated for the death of his animal partner.
So they shoot ours, and starve their own. It’s a good thing for the cops that PETA is anti-gun.
Yeah... I can’t see a K9 cop deliberately doing something like this, especially not one with as many years of service as he has... it’s just odd. As for the vet checks, there is, depending on the force, usually contact and requirements for such things. I know several K9 cops and they have nothing but great love and caring for the dogs that work with them.
On the other hand.. they are “dogs”, not people, and shouldn’t be treated like a “cop”. A working dog is just that, a trained ANIMAL, not a human with rights or anything like that.
"Brown has spent most of his two decades with the Miami police working with police dogs."
Yes. I believe that you're correct. If Rondal has, indeed, successfully worked with dogs for two decades and then something like this happens, the PD needs to find out what drug habit he has acquired in the interim.
Ya think?
Lack of information as usual won't stop the 'hang him,' then lets have an investigation crowd.
It said he had developed a heart condition and had been on light duty.
I wonder if he put the dog on some kind of weird diet suggested by someone?
Maybe part of the process of recruiting K-9 officers should involve asking them if they ever let their dogs sleep in their beds when they were kids, against their parents' wishes.
(20 points to whoever can give the lit. reference for that)
Feb. 14—Investigators believe Dynasty, a Miami police bloodhound who specialized in tracking down missing persons, died of starvation.... there is a link above.
Oops, you’re right. Hang him now.
I watched an episode of Animal Precinct on AP that had a man charged with starving his dog, turned out during the autopsy the dog had ingested a corn cob and it become stuck in the intestines which caused the dog to quit eating and it lost weight rapidly.
This dog very well could have had something wrong with it, but a bloodhound at 33lbs, they usually are in the 100+ lb. range???? The police dogs have access to the best vets, you’d think he’d notice when the ribs started showing. A dog wouldn’t drop 70 lbs in a week.
Think the article actually said he lost a lot of weight over 10 months. Not a week. But, still, an animal that depends on a human for its survival shouldn’t be treated like that - ASSUMING the Cop was doing something to create the situation.
I just have a hard time believing that the guy actually did something wrong - with the experience he had as a dog handler. It makes sense, if he DID do something deliberately, there’d have been questions in the PAST....
Nothing here to suggest either way though
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