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I want to say up front that I don't condone what that patrolman did in shooting that dog but I can understand why it was done. Arresting police cannot predict a dog's behavior and will not take a chance of being attacked. I believe this is actually part of their professional training.

The only time I was attacked and bit by a dog it was an animal which knew me well. He was the next-door neighbor's dog, an animal which I had always been kind towards as I like animals, and he visited my family, as we had a dog he played with frequently.

It happened in the very early morning, he was out roaming with a couple of other dogs and I was jogging. He was a dog-coyote hybrid, and later as he grew older increasingly difficult to predict in behavoir.

But at the time of the attack I believe he behaved from instinct, as he approached from behind, absolutely silent, and bit me in the back of the lower leg (calf). My response probably startled him for I turned on him, and screaming at the top of my lungs, chased him all the way home.

That cop was an IDIOT. Not one of those officers used proper judgement and from the sound of their voices, I have to wonder how hard it was for them to even get out of high school.

Remind me to bypass good 'ol Tenn when I travel. And I live in Texas.

"part of their professional training."

If that is the case, then a lesson to be drawn from this incident is to never travel with your dog in the car unless it is in a pet carrier. You can be stopped at any time and directed to exit your car.

Arresting police cannot predict a dog's behavior and will not take a chance of being attacked

And if Joe Q. Citizen had taken out his neighbors dog with a firearm, because he "couldn't take a chance of being attacked", what do you think the response of the JBT's would be?

Yes, God forbid the cops do what the innocent family requested and shut the door to the *** damn car. These JBT's thought they could have some fun. That's the bottom line. These are not legitimate LEO's, these are more of the new generation that is setting up a true "us" against "them" mentality. Add it up. The idiots in Virginia arresting people in bars. The JBT cutting the woman's finger off while handcuffing her in Detroit. The JBT's with the weekly story of the no-knock raids at the wrong address shooting family pets and innocent people. Yup, I'm sure glad he wasted that "menacing" family pet. I guess the family should just be happy they were not executed right there on the spot.