[AD from SpringBay]

I don't appear too often on the drug war threads - though they are interesting reading. My question is: is it now protocol to shoot the dog? In these stories where the people own a dog, the dog ends up dead. And then, when I read the threads about people being cruel to animals - some become rabid (not really trying to sound punny) and say the people who are cruel to animals should be treated the same, sent to the lower regions of hell, etc... Just an observation or two.

[Cheapskate]

I Imagine that it's SOP to shoot any dog that dosen't cower in absolute fear.

[chit*chat]

The police broke into a friends home - they were looking for a man whose mother lived a few houses down from hers. Luckily she had enough presence of mind to get her dogs into the cellar before she answered the door to a swat team.

She told the police "Everyone knows he's in Florida and his mother lives down the street". She asked what they would have done if she hadn't put the dogs away and was cooly told they would have been shot.

That would have been a error on their part with a 'that's regrettable' type of non-apology and no recourse for the misidentified target.Totally unacceptable.