Posted on 11/28/2012 11:51:03 AM PST by Arthurio
To Deirdre and Charles Wright, their 4-year-old Newfoundland named Rosie was a member of the family — a big, hairy, doe-eyed friend and companion who "aided in their enjoyment of life, well-being, personal development and daily activities."
To the trio of Des Moines police officers who confronted the barking bear-of-a-dog in the driveway of the Wrights' home two years ago, she was something else entirely.
"He doesn't want me to get very close," one of the officers is heard saying on an audio recording from a patrol cruiser's dashboard camera, the deep bark of the dog in the background.
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"He doesn't want to play," one officer is heard commenting. About a minute later, another officer says, "I'll shoot him. Let's just go shoot him," according to the lawsuit and dash-camera audio.
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It’s not fear, it’s thuggery.
If the schoolyard bully gets away with kicking baby carriages whenever he gets the urge, and the parents and the PTB at the school wink and turn a blind eye to the behavior, the bully will continue (and likely escalate) the behavior.
I guess all the school yard bullies who failed to grow up all obtained government employment.
Psychopaths
I call that cruelty, not cluelessness.
Some guy, in an article on another thread, was given 6 months for killing his girlfriends parrot.
Good think he didn’t kill her dog, he’d have gotten life or something. But if he was a cop, well ....
You’re not the only one. It really makes no sense.
Is this what the cop would do if he was walking his neighborhood and saw an unknown dog? Get his gun and shoot it?
Do they have no common sense about dogs at all, never been around them? Do they suddenly become dog-dumb when they put on the badge?
Is this just a city cop thing? I cannot imagine what would happen in my country town to a cop that shot somebody’s dog in this circumstance.
It makes no sense if you peg the problem as ignorance.
Consider the possibility of thuggery, and the problem makes perfect sense: more police officers are looking for opportunities to shoot dogs, to intimidate private citizens.
I get tears in my eyes every time I look at that photo and know what happened to that sweet baby. That sweet face and those big doe eyes. Anyone who know anything about dog breeds would know a newfie would not hurt a fly. She was probably scared to death and just wanting to get back into her yard.
All those idiots had to do was open a can of cat food and let the dog get a whiff.
She would have come right to them.
a couple of cans of cat food will usually attract them as well. The stinkier, the better.
Beats me. It would take away most of the “chances” to shoot?
I’ve known more than one mailman or deliveryman online, and almost to a one they simply made friends with the dogs on their route via Milk Bones and a kind demeanor.
a couple of cans of cat food will usually attract them as well. The stinkier, the better.
I just would NOT GET OVER IT if someone did this to my dog!
Especially if it was a Newfie.
They are just the sweetest, most docile dogs.
Poor thing was barking, trying to tell them what she wanted.
This sickens me!
My sister worked as a meter-reader for a power company years ago and had many scary dog encounters.
One day a big dog was barking and thrashing on a chain and broke the chain, running toward her.
She froze and held out her pepper spray awaiting the attack.
The dog did a “drive by” running right past her as if whe wasn’t there and it was running to something beyond her.
She said the dog was so happy to be off the chain it just kept running, not stopping to waste time on her!
I have a book of dog stories and there is a hilarious one about a SCARY big black lab chasing a guy who is out walking in the neighborhood.
The lab gets to him and is growling and trying to determine if the man is friend or foe and the man, in a moment of clarity, knowing that 99% of labs KNOW what a ball is, asks “Where is your ball? Go get your ball!”
The lab’s ears perk up and he takes off running, coming back immediately with a tennis ball and dropping it at the man’s feet.
Shoot a private citizen’s dog = “It was just a dog....”
I've been talking about this for years. If a perp shoots a police dog, that perp can be tried and jailed for assault against a law enforcement officer, a penalty with much greater consequences than animal cruelty. On the other hand, a cop shoots the family dog and it's justifiable in every way.
I've grown to despise law enforcement altogether and make it a point to avoid them in every way possible, esp. when my dog is around.
Years ago, I worked at the local Humane Society. One of the board members was a dog trainer and would occasionally address the staff on dog behavior.
He once pointed out that a chained dog will often exhibit aggressive behavior around strangers because he's trapped by the chain and feels vulnerable; he's attempting to warn off the stranger from coming too close. Made perfect sense to me; I had never thought about it that way before.
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