Why are police more pussies than mailmen? Step away from the door, ask the owner to leash the dog or put it in a room, and then re-enter.
It seems reasonable enough to me, but I believe officer training teaches them to not surrender physical space. So we may be expecting him to go against his training. Unfortunately, it seems they do not get training in “dog behavior” and this business of every barking dog is a threat gets tiresome.
They're not, just better armed! Where my mom lives in a retirement community, the mailmen actually ran up to a woman wit a leashed small dog and maced it for no reason whatsoever. After that they gave no mail service for a week, and where I live we had no service for two days because the mailman said he saw a loose dog. So I would say police and mailmen are both pussies when it comes to dogs but one is much more dangerous.
When I was a meter reader and went to someone’s door, if they had a dog, I used to put my foot up against it to prevent the owner from opening the screen door. I talked through the door then and asked them to lock the dog in a room for me.
They usually complied. We didn’t have side arms.
Man, I could tell you some stories about dogs. LOL