Who the owner or the cop?
Felony stop the cops are not up there around the doors.
I've trained dogs for thirty five years.
I've been around multiple dogs (large dogs) for decades.
What I've learned is that I can read my dogs pretty well. But I can't necessarily read a strange dog.
We may have gone downhill as a nation, but a station wagon full of luggage with a family inside is pretty rarely a group of crazed felons.
I agree, that might have been a clue that perhaps they have the wrong car.
With the occupants out of the car and kneeling on the ground whatever potential there is for danger is pretty much over.
No, there's still the dog. One thing I've learned over the years. Never underestimate how much damage a large dog can do to you in just seconds.
If the dog was viscious and the family were thugs, the dog would have been the first one out of the car or would at least have been snapping and barking at the windows.
Not necessarily, I've personally known a watchdog that was trained not to bark, just attack if you came in the door uninvited. I personally think this is a bad idea, but that's how it had been trained.......scary.