Posted on 09/09/2011 11:13:55 PM PDT by Borough Park
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But Samuelson's neighbor, Fernando Perez, said he told the cops several times that Ozzy was roaming in the back.
When the security alarm system at the home went off, Samuelson called Perez to check it out while she made the 20-minute drive to her house, he said. Perez said he knew not to go into the backyard because of the dog and when officers arrived, he warned them.
"'Be careful. It’s a big dog,' I told them. They told me to go back to my house," said Perez, who repeated the warning several more times. "Before I get to my driveway, I hear the two shots. They walked into the backyard with the guns in their hand. Then they ran from the backyard like they were scared or something."
Samuelson said she got Ozzy to protect the house and deter thieves. Police have not said what triggered the alarm.
"He was our protector," Samuelson said. "He’s a huge part of our family."
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Powers of observation are not the only similarity he has with those cops. He also shares their intellectual acuity as well. Their ability to think and rationalize. Their IQ.
RUFF! RUFF! MEEEEEEEEEEEOW!
I wonder how many dogs died in World Trade Center attacks.
Yep. Had not got that far in the thread. They drive on our roades and they vote. A very scary thing.
That had to be pretty darn egregious for his fellow cops to turn on him. I hope they never let him near a dog again.
Then suddenly, without warning, the Dobermann drew; the outlaw found himself staring down the merciless barrels of a pair of pearl-handled Persians.
His last thought was that he’d done messed with the wrong cowdog.
He walked.
Jurors on Friday cleared former Miami-Dade police Sgt. Allen Cockfield of animal cruelty in the June 2006 death of his former partner, a rookie police dog named Duke.
When the verdict was read about 4 p.m. inside the packed courtroom, police supporters gasped loudly. Some wept.
Cockfield smiled broadly and embraced relatives. When he walked from the courtroom, fellow officers in the hall erupted into applause.
“He should have never ever been charged,” said defense attorney Douglas Hartman. “They put this guy through four years of hell.”
Cockfield, a longtime officer who was fired after his 2007 arrest, expects to get his job back, Hartman said. Cockfield declined to talk to reporters afterward.
Friday’s verdict was not wholly unexpected.
Cockfield, 55, was originally charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty and a felony count of a killing a police dog, which could have cost him his law enforcement certificate.
But Thursday, prosecutors conceded that they had not proved Cockfield intended to kill Duke when he kicked him during an ill-fated training session.
At Hartman’s request, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Antonio Arzola tossed out the felony charge, but allowed the lesser count to stand.
Miami-Dade prosecutor Isis Perez said in closing arguments that Cockfield viciously and fatally kicked the Belgian Malinois during an “obedience control” session at the department’s training bureau.
Next time Odin gets outta line, I think I’ll kick him in the guts.
[would somebody here please notify my next of kin?]
Gee, if I trained a dog that way, I’d be afraid in a throwdown situation the dog would side with the crook!
Many whose owners never came home died waiting for them.
Eventually, somebody thought to start going around to the homes of the missing to check whether there were any pets left without caretakers.
There were...a *lot*.
And then you have to count all the S&R dogs who died of complications from working in that wretched, toxic dump, snorting up great amounts of poisonous dust to find survivors.
Would you blame him?...:)
There are a lot of theories why people never got into ‘pit fighting’ Dobermanns.
I can think of one reason why; they will NOT put up with ‘training techniques’ of beating on them to make them mean.
You beat a Dobe at your own peril.
I’ve had rescue Dobes who’d been beaten.
I had to teach them that sticks were *only* for fetching and hands were ~not~ weapons to be used against them.
It didn’t take long to “unlearn” their hard lessons.
They’re very bright dogs who -want- to believe people are good.
Ibizan Hounds are a LOT harder to rehab.
They’re a primitive breed and learn survival lessons quickly and permanently.
My poor abused Pookie just turned 9 and she’s only started to believe that a hand raised to pat her head *wasn’t* going to be a blow to her skull in about the last year and a half.
[I’ve had her since she was 18 months old]
She’ll *never* not be afraid of anything that even remotely looks like a stick, however.
I have to move her from room to room so she can’t see me swatting flies.
She totally freaks out.
Really? You think a shooter would be in the backyard with a vicious dog? You think the dog would put up with the intruder?
Fortunately, Anchorage PD know why we keep dogs ... these guys need to be demoted to mall cops!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33618351@N03/4277922942/
I don't know how to post a photo, sorry!
The burglar and the dog were ~obviously~ in cahoots.
The alarm got tripped, however, and the burglar took off, leaving the dog as the fall guy.
Yeah.
That’s the ticket.
/s
He’s *beautiful*!
[with that marking on his chest, you should’ve named him “Pi”]...;D
Horse manure! If the dog was there, the cops knew damned well that any potential perp was not, because the PERP would have been shooting at the dog, or running from it. This is just another instance where the local jack-booted thugs get to "exercise their power" with no possibility of blowback.
Are you insinuating the dog would be nice for a shooter and be an obstacle to cops?
You also seem to think that their approach was the only possible one - thinkers do not have to mow down family pets to do their job - those that feel the need to fire their weapons because thay haven't had any action lately shouldn't be cops.
Don't you find it ironic that their hands are so tied against real perps, and they take such freedoms with pets so often? I think the whole system is rotten and it is designed to demoralize and desensitize the cops.
So if you had been there the cops could dust you too, because you might have been a distraction, right?
Is that from the rude cop thread? Or was he on another thread too?
What is a “support dog”?
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