"Pitbull" (Known to anyone with an IQ above room temperature as a "Shar pei".)
Posted on 05/12/2015 8:15:28 PM PDT by Altariel
An unattended Shar Pei had its carotid artery severed, and one of the two officers eventually charged with felony animal cruelty was let off by Freddie Gray prosecutor Marilyn Mosby.
Baltimore cops gave new meaning to dying like a dog last summer after they received a report of an unattended pooch biting a woman on the hand.
The pooch in question was a 7-year-old Shar Pei named Nala that had gotten away from its owner but had both a collar and an ID tag.
The woman said that Nala had only bitten her after she saw the dog standing in traffic and sought to check the tag with the hope of finding the owner.
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1) The dog was stressed and/or 2) The woman reached for the dog's tags/collar and the dog reacted to correct what it perceived as a threat reaching for its jugular.
In any case, the woman was sufficiently *not* afraid of the dog to be willing to follow it and make sure that both it and others were safe.
Unfortunately, the agents of the state lacked her goodwill.
"Pitbull" (Known to anyone with an IQ above room temperature as a "Shar pei".)
Clearly, a vicious dobe in Shar Pei clothing. (Getting stealthy, those dobes are).
Actually, Shar Pei can be a vicious dog. And they are quite muscular and strong.
When I was a kid my step dad brought a pup back from South Carolina for us. This dog got nothing but the best treatment, no kind of teasing nothing.
Shortly after my brother was born, it just rapidly turned vicious.
One day my friend Jay came over, and one of Major’s gates was down, and Major chased him up on the the back of the sofa and trapped him there. This dog was real serious, it wanted blood.
We put him down after that incident.
Not defending the cops here. I would not ever try to cut a dog’s throat unless I had absolutely no other course of action at all, but don’t underestimate Shar Peis.
Exactly (yes, Shar-Peis do have that kind of background). And excusing a dog’s possible reactions as simply “normal” is irresponsible. Tons of dogs do NOT react this way, and if they do, consider them unstable. Hell, I have frequently grabbed my neighbors’ dogs when they have been wandering around away from home, even by the necks. No hint of such a reaction. Yes, the next door is a Golden, but previously I also took a Shepherd who would wander sometimes (as was my own) before she died.
There’s a very specific reason that the dog’s throat was slit. The woman that the dog bit was pregnant. The responding police officer (Schmidt) knew this and he knew that if the dog was rabid or ran away so that they couldn’t test it for rabies, the woman would have to have a tetanus shot that could harm or kill her baby. Because of this, he placed the dog in a collar attached to a pole so he could keep the dog close so that its blood could be tested for rabies. It was the kind of device used by animal control, where the collar can be tightened to control the dog. At some point the 2nd officer (Agent Bogen) showed up, and he tried to help locate the dog’s owner. They were also trying to get animal control on scene to test the dog. The number on the collar went to a disconnected phone.
During this time, the collar around the dog’s neck apparently strangled or choked the dog to death, and it became unresponsive. Agent Bogen didn’t want the dog to suffer, so he used his knife to create a surgical incision to cut the dog’s carotid artery, to ensure the dog would die immediately if it wasn’t already dead.
Schmidt likely killed the dog by strangling it. However, Mosby dropped the charges against Schmidt (who happens to be Billy Murphy’s client) on her FIRST day in office. The charges against Bowen (whose lawyer supported Mosby’s opponent) remain in force.
Hmm, well I can certainly understand the actions of the officers in this case.
And I find myself at a loss to understand Mosby’s?
What gives? She can’t be that blatantly, ah, corrupt, I guess, can she?
There is no reason for either of these agents to be charged IMO.
“...so that its blood could be tested for rabies.”
Last time I checked there is no blood test for rabies. The suspect animal must be euthanized. Then its brain is homogenized in a blender of sorts and the brain tissue is stained to look for Golgi bodies which are present in a rabid animal.
Doesn’t matter. He still killed the dog in an unspeakably cruel manner and should be fired.
The strangling part may have been cruel, but was accidental.
Cutting the throat is the kosher method of slaughtering all food animals and is done to prevent suffering.
Where is the firing offense?
Really have you ever killed any thing.
Cutting the throat of a dog whose neck is being compressed in a noose, under a very high stress situation is not equivalent to a quadruped being calmly led into a kill box and having its throat slit. That dog died in extreme stress and fear. It could have been handled much better. From what I understand, the woman grabbed the dog’s collar and triggered the fear/defensive reaction on its part. That cop was a fool and has no business in the cop business.
Yes.
Dog found alive in tornado victim’s arms
(CBS News) The other arm was stretched toward his wife ...
CBS News May 12, 2015, 10:03 AM
Tornado kills Texas couple; dog found alive in victim’s arms
VAN, Texas — A retired police officer and his wife were killed after their home collapsed in Sunday night’s tornado in north Texas - and neighbors told CBS DFW that the man was found with one arm around his dog and the other reaching toward his wife.
A 14-year-old neighbor found the couple shortly after 6 o’clock Monday morning when neighbors realized David Tapley and his wife, Brenda, never emerged from the debris.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tornado-kills-texas-couple-dog-found-alive-in-victims-arms/
I’m going by memory on some of it. I don’t really know what kind of test they had to run. Here’s an article about the charges being dropped against the one officer.
Wow that is one ugly dog. : (
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