Michigan legislative action thread
Maybe this was a justified shooting. But I am curious about something. Most English policemen are armed only with a short club. How do English cops handle loud, charging dogs?
Do they simply run away? Or do they club the dogs to death? Or do they keep calm and just handle the situation?
Why send the trigger happy swat wannabes instead of animal control? Is shooting the only way cops have of dealing with a dog? First they start shooting dogs for “barking”, next they will shoot people for talking back to them.
Woof-Woof
Why can’t these problem dogs be tranquilized instead of shot dead?
You hear this thing all the time and while I can understand a charging dog is a problem for cops trying to defend, seems they always just want to pull out their guns and shoot.
I’ll tell you this, though I cannot imagine a scenario where this would happen, if anyone shot my dog for barking at them I’d have to get my gun and shoot THEM!
It’s what dogs do! But the cops....they keep shooting them.
There’s no saner solution?
What is it with these cops?
Much as I hate dogs getting shot by Cops.....
She should have kept the dog at home. Dropping it off to spend the night with someone with diminished mental capacity is not the smartest way to go.
Many dogs run toward a new person to be friendly. The barking is excitement. The cop takes no chances and kills the dog. There is no recourse. Your dog is dead. Just be thankful that they didn’t see granpa with a TV remote, yell to him to put down the gun, but he doesn’t drop the TV remote because it’s not a gun, and he’s dead too.
Welcome to the wonderful world of trust in the new USA.
There have been barking dogs that I have wished dead. Never kilt one, but won’t rule it out
The dog was hit eight times
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I can’t say what i think...
They usually shoot dogs for NO reason.
Federal agents also shot a man after complaints about excessive happiness.
Poor, poor little skeerd piggies. {I jus wanna go hom tnight, an that puppy pooch might jus bite me}
Hey, YO! SKEERED little PIGGIE! Dogs SKEER you that much? Go sell life insurance, yellow belly.
I did door to door insurance sales for Prudential for years. Ran into a LOAD of mutts that had an attitude. A swift boot to the chops had them up on the porch, not wanting to run with the big dogs ever again.
What in T H E N A M E O F H E L L is this pu$$i A$$ penchant for shooting dogs?
Hey, YO! Copper, BOY in BLUE, explain to me just WHY YOU NEED TO CAP THE DOG?
I think it just gives you a boner. You can SHOOT your GUNZ, kill something alive, and GET AWAY WITH IT.
I've stared down some of the worst of the worst. I rescued some big, bad, mean assed dogs from abusive houses. Me and the dogger, face to face. But then again, I'm not SKEERD of a dog!
Starting to get a real ATTITUDE about piggies that just NEED to cap dogs.
(Oh, but in Animal Farm, they did just that too!)
Any, and every, pig that caps a dog, for WHATEVER REASON, needs to be put on administrative leave and put through the "Psychological Evaluation" wringer, because, IMHO, as an old pig farmer from the backwash of PA, such a person doesn't have what it takes to deal with the public in general.
If you can't deal with a dog, how in hell can you deal with a human that has problems?
Just "Shoot Em?"
OTH, there are a lot of good cops out there, who take the time to call a rescue guy like me, when they stumble into a bad situation.
Its all a matter of perspective. A dog is a dog, a human is SUPPOSEDLY smarter than that dog. So why does one need to go all nuclear on a dumb animal who is probably confused and frightened? Hey piggies, dog smarter than you?
Maybe that's why the "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality has taken control.
I'll stop now, my heart goes out to the doggers.
They are truly innocents, they did nothing wrong in the eyes of God.
Something is terribly wrong with law enforcement in this country.
and yet another doughnut muncher earns their dog shooter merit badge...
It is simply amazing that in this neck of the woods, she could not find better overnight care for her dog than her grandfather with his apparent dementia.
That said there is nothing unusual about this shooting - visit the link above. It's an epidemic.
“The dog started barking. Between the hours of 3:00 and 7:00 a.m. several neighbors sick of the noise called police.”
Dontcha just love neighbors? Can’t be bothered to throw on their slippers and nightgown and go next door to see why the dog was left outside all night. Easier to just call the cops and skip the human interaction.
Interesting question.