Posted on 01/25/2013 7:13:01 AM PST by SandRat
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Lovely loyal dog! RIP! Velarde-Loureiro. . . hmmm that’s IRISH isn’t it? /s Smells like illegal alien/Obama’s son/Holder’s people to me!
g’s handler How many police turn out to honor citizens’ dogs shot down in their own home or yard by trigger-happy cops?
I can certainly understand the police dog handler would grieve for his dog,and also other officers who knew the handler, but 200 officers at a dog’s memorial just because it was a police dog ?
Sure. How many of the police officers that were in attendance were being paid overtime?
Beat me to it. Glad someone else agrees.
Law enforcement dogs are considered cops and killing one is tantamount to killing a human LEO.
Yet they can fire upon civilian-owned dogs with impunity and are guaranteed to be found justified in their actions.
It’s pretty bad when you read a headline like this one, and the first thing you wonder is whether the dog was killed by “friendly fire.”
Apparently some dogs are more equal than others.
It must have been a pretty bad gun shot. Tucson has/had some excellent trauma vets. Years ago I brought one of my dogs who had been shot in the face to one of these vets and he put my dog back together beyond all my hopes and expectations.
Could you imagine someone going in front of a judge and claiming, “I was afraid for my life, much the way the cop who shot my dog was afraid for his, so I shot his K9 officer to protect myself. I don’t see a logical difference in the distinction.”
It would take the best lawyer in the country to argue the point, but they would still lose. If the cops can do it to our innocent pets, I don’t see why we couldn’t protect ourselves from their deliberately aggressive K9 partners.
i don’t understand how a dog can be a cop,don’t you have to take an oath?
If the carjacker had died there probably wouldn't be three people who cared beyond his mother...
That's a great point, Gringo!
I’m glad they got the b****** that shot him.
R.I.P. Ivan.
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All Dogs, especially Police/Military Dogs go to Heaven
After the service, 9-year-old Madison Fenoglio, the officer’s daughter, talked about the morning moments with Ivan that she misses most.
“I would wake up to Ivan licking my face and his paw on my shoulder,” said the elementary school student.
Madison walked up to the Memorial Plaza, looked at an image of Ivan on the wooden urn and said: “God bless you because what you did was very brave.”
>In fact, if Ivan would’ve had his druthers, I’m sure he’d have rather lived his life with a family that had a really big back yard and lots of squirrels. <
Maybe most dogs, but a Belgian Malinois is most happy when it has a job to do. They are highly intelligent and if not given something to do, they’ll invent things that are not necessarily non-destructive.
I lived with one for over 15 years. They’re incredible, but they do not do well with pet owners who don’t exercise these very bright dogs’ minds on a regular basis.
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