Posted on 05/28/2009 12:19:38 PM PDT by Chet 99
Thursday, May 28, 2009
(05-27) 14:56 PDT ALAMEDA -- An Alameda police K-9 officer is under investigation after his dog died when he left it in his personal sports utility vehicle for several hours during a training session, authorities said Wednesday.
The officer, whose name was not released, left the 6 1/2-year-old Belgian Malinois inside his SUV while attending a use-of-force training exercise May 5 on Lincoln Avenue, police Lt. Bill Scott said.
The SUV had at least one window down for ventilation, Scott said. It also was not an unusually warm day - according to the National Weather Service, the high temperature that day at nearby Oakland International Airport was 70 degrees.
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My Pepper was like that and he never grew out of it; toward the end during those final two weeks that the cancer ravaged him and he had to be evacuated manually he insisted I throw the ball; his last day, we played for an hour and when it was time he wagged his fouled tail and nodded his head as he lay on the Vet’s platform as though to launch into that place where the balls always fly and the ground comes up to meet your paws like a soft, white pillow.
Every now and then I’ll catch myself looking up for one last glimpse of his magnificently arched back and eager, grinning mouth.
The SUV did it.
Weird thing is he loves to lay on concrete in the sun and sometimes won't come in. He is such a dork I have to go and get him and make him heel. He ain't to swift but he is the biggest lover and baby on the planet.
There's a dead police officer here - prison time is called for.
I used to travel to shows with a friend who had parti-cockers. They were nuts but a lot of fun. One of them would howl with me, it was a hoot!
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