Try the same thing with German Shepherd,
or Doberman
And you don't get that "lick you to death" Golden Retriever look from those breeds.
This cop is just too stupid, cowardly, and cruel for words, or for the job.
Posted on 12/20/2010 9:59:29 AM PST by Nachum
A Clayton County mother of six said the family dog did what he always did when he saw someone. He barked.
But when "Boomer" started barking and running toward a police officer Saturday morning, the officer shot the dog and killed it, Lawrene King told the AJC Sunday night.
“He’s a golden retriever," King said. "He barks, but he’s never bitten anyone.”
A Clayton County police officer was on foot patrol on North Shore Drive when the dog jumped off a porch and started barking and running toward the officer, Capt. Tina Daniel said. The officer ordered the dog to stop and when it didn't, the officer shot and killed the animal in its yard, Daniel said.
The officer, whose name was not released, was responding to a call reporting a suspicious person, police said.
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I had a dog that barked. An adorable little lady, 1/2 poodle, 1/2 dachsund. We had just moved into quarters and I was unpacking. Frisky was in the back yard and started to bark in a very warning way, backing slowly toward the house. I called her in and locked all the doors. When my husband came home I had a pistol on my belt. The next day he was told that the quarters were empty because just weeks before there had been a break-in and rape. Good dog!
My house was built years before I moved in. I have nothing to do with the local mail delivery protocol. I now keep the dogs in until the the mail is delivered. It was only after the last regular mail guy retired that we had ANY problem. The issue is with the USPS giving door delivery routes to dogophobes.
Buried wire fence. Did you miss that part of the story?
Do you honestly expect someone (cop or otherwise) to survey property lines when a dog charges them? Haha.
Yes. I expect a cop to be smart enough to know where the STREET ends and someone's property starts. You know, that whole look down and see where the tar ends and the grass starts thing? It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure that one out.
You’re talking about “calculus” and “logic” when your whole argument rests on a dog recognizing property lines ...
Nope. It's the dog hitting the barrier signal and getting zapped by the collar around it's neck that stops it. A fact in this story you refuse to acknowledge as it undermines your entire thesis.
I didn’t ignore that it never left the property ... I don’t care that it never left the property. Big difference.
As for the collar — prior to this conversation, I wouldn’t have known what it was, so a special collar wouldn’t have stopped me from shooting a dog. I’ve seen shock-collars, but they’re not all “invisible fence” collars, some are noise reduction collars, and some are just bright ID collars. Even with the collar ... the dog charged a cop that was off-property, so it didn’t appear that the collar was having the deterrent effect it was intended to have.
In short, if a dog charges me ... I’m not going to take the time to study its collar before reacting, nor will I be waiting to survey where the dog is in relation to an imaginary property line.
If your dog is confined ... make sure its confinement is clear to passers-by that might feel threatened by a dog with invisible-confinement.
SnakeDoc
That's an absolute.
Some people install fences of various heights ~ and I've heard that sometimes that can't be too high!
The animal here was supposedly restrained by an electronic fence. They don't always work. Besides, not everybody knows about them.
Yeah cops are part of the community.
But, how can the cop be 100% shure that the dog was restrained though?
I mean last I checked golden retrievers have long flowing fur which would visually obscure a restraining collar, and without a sign there would be no telling.
I don’t understand why everyone expects the cop to wait until he’s bitten before taking action
Try the same thing with German Shepherd,
or Doberman
And you don't get that "lick you to death" Golden Retriever look from those breeds.
This cop is just too stupid, cowardly, and cruel for words, or for the job.
Kathy, your spin is speeding up the rotation of the planet...Please stop before we all fly off.
There is no reason to shoot a dog on it's owner's property except in extremely rare exigent circumstances (for certain breed profiles only).
Cops are supposed to be part of the community, not a cog in the statist system of citizen control.
No, the Postal Service didn't put the box on your house. The owner did. Time for you to move to street service or post office box, or maybe even GENERAL DELIVERY.
If door delivery causes you offense, take action to stop it!
You should. Because absent either the cop being on the property or the dog leaving it, the cop was under no threat. At all. Period.
Your silly fears aside, you don't get to arbitrarily shoot anything on someone else's property with impunity.
I have found that there are very few situations that inviting the cops can’t make worse.
Go back and re-read the article. The dog was killed before it reached the perimeter.
The cop had NO reason to trespass on private property.
This is titled Golden Retriever Grin ~ note, big teeth ~ just as big as the bad dogs Fur Shur ~ maybe they’re relatives, hunh? http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/people/1267411-golden-retriever-grin.php?id=1267411
How is it possible mailmen survive from day to day without gun?
Invisible Fence will definately stop the dog. It is basically electro shock, they stop.
Presumably police officers regularly encounter dogs — both friendly and not-friendly — in the course of their duties. Doesn’t police training include techniques to handle an approaching dog short of opening fire?
The USPS is there to provide a service. They have handled it well in the past.
That they have a problem now if their fault, not mine.
Right back at you Dragnet. For someone who would (I assume) like “just the facts”, I’d expect a little more.
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