“Over my 28 plus years as a police officer, I have been confronted on several occasions by dogs. Without exception, I tried my best to fend off the dog with whatever was present, a trashcan lid or a fence or my coat, whatever. In all those years, I have yet to shoot a dog (and I don’t like dogs).”
Just a good loud yell and stamping your feet will scare 99% of the meanest dogs. It’s too bad that most police nowadays never get the opportunity to learn this, because shooting is just so much easier.
Obviously you have never meant a dog that was intent on biting you in the butt. LOL! Stumping, yelling ... nothing works short of putting up a barrier between you and it.
And fun. Lots of US cops these days, especially the younger ones, seem to be on power trips. I personally blame the war on drugs and the SWAT mentality, but there might be more to it than that.
Why don’t they get Cesar Milan to train police departments on how to deal with dogs? He did one with mail carriers on one of his episodes.