[B4Ranch]

Now I don't know how TJ came to be in RT Northcut's possession after being a working dog for the Border Patrol,

Apparently when TJ was with the Border Patrol he chased some Mexicans back across the border and didn't return. When Northcut's previous dog died from old age, someone in the community took him down to Tijuana to the dog pound and he selected TJ after a couple of hours. TJ was brought back to the US, given all the shots needed and a health examination. A local resident buys his dog tags every year to keep him 'legal'.

[Rodney King]

I admire you guys greatly for lending this guy a helping hand, but I think that the city is getting a bad rap. A bum is living in a park with a vicious dog. I have a 16 month old daughter, and we live right by a park with a war memorial. We walk there all the time. If there was a smelly bum living there with a vicious dog who was biting people that got too close to the memorial I would want him gone, too.

There is something about people with vicious dogs. They all think that because their relationship with their dog is so special, that they should be immune from responsibility when their dogs attack people. I have seen it happen before. These people almost alwasy beleive that the kid who got bitten was to blame - and they are always wrong.

I'd like to see this hero get some help, and I would like to see him reunited with his dog. But it is absurd to think that this guy has a right to live on the war memorial.