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.