you make good points, but it still doesn’t lead to just up and shooting the animal.
and on the practical side, i bet that cop now wishes he had just stayed in t he car and called for animal control. no one was in any danger, he put himself in the situation and now his career is baadabing.
so on multiple levels, it was an extremely poor decision.
and for the record, the pitiful sound of the dog after it was shot is just heartbreaking. guy is a bad shot on top of it all. lucky he didn’t hit his own foot IMHO.
once upon a time I had my best friend in the whole world , a Belgian Malinois , bleed out in my lap , after being shot by a neighborhood , and having the cops do nothing to them , because ,like in this situation , my locality has a leash law and I had been letting my dogs run lose . They found that the neighbor was within his rights , as his little goat was being attacked by my dogs . I learned the hard way . I know what the life leaving your best friend looks like . Yet I was the one in error and I have to live with that knowledge and that loss myself .