The owner must not read FR, if he did, he'd know that the cops will shoot any dog, of any size, anywhere, at any time for any aggression, real or imagined.
Meanwhile, what about the stolen moped?
Dogs should be on leash. Enough said.
Moral to the story is don’t walk your dog off leash like an idiot.
It’s the owner’s responsibility to protect the dog from itself and from cops.
The dog doesn’t know that a cop will shoot it, but the owner should, and now does, and I bet will walk another dog off leash again.
The dog took it. He has been apprehended. /S
Owner, wrong. Cop, right.
Four legs and a tail - aggressive.
“shot the dog once in the upper body.” Ummmm, was the dog walking upright?
Looks like they live out in the sticks, unaware of the existence of feral police.
Bull manure. I have a 35 pound mix. She looks mostly Lab. Don't know what all's in there, but I do know she has a heart full of affection. Everyone who comes into my yard gets the same treatment: She runs up to them and greets them effusively. In the early moments, that may look like she is attacking, but she isn't.
If the jackass in the article, armed or not, wasn't a "LEO" the dog wouldn't have been shot. And, dollars to doughnuts he also wouldn't have been bitten.
Brilliant police work by officer E.Fudd.
DO NOT REPORT ANYTHING STOLEN TO THE POLICE. THEY ARE LIKELY TO KILL YOU, YOUR DOG, OR A RELATIVE.
I believe he shot it too.
A few weeks back a neighbor and I were walking our dogs off leash in a field. The neighbor’s dog is young and undisciplined - she took off to greet a police officer getting out of his car and my dog followed.
The officer heard the thunder of running feet, turned and saw two dogs charging into his space and started unfastening his weapon.
I was thinking oh, s-— as soon as I saw the cop, but I had a whistle and blew it it - my dog stopped and the other dog didn’t actually jump on the cop - he saw me and my neighbor and kept his hand on his gun - I got my dog on leash and the cop went into the building.
A few minutes later he came out - was actually quite nice - didn’t yell at us or cite us for off-leash - just said he heard them first and thought they were wild, and they got his adrenaline up for the morning.
(Mine is a 60 lb lab-Shepherd mix and the neighbor’s dog is a skinny yellow thing about 40 - neither in scary mode when they approached the officer.)
But NJ is a state where very few people are licensed to carry, and the police don’t want them to carry either. That means the rest of us citizens deal with dogs without pulling weapons. And to me, that means the police should be expected to deal with them the same way.
If I ever have to call the police my dog is going in the crate first - she barks and looks frightening when strange men come on the property but is a complete sweetheart off her territory and on, after introductions have been made.
The officer responded on the 1200 block of Pansy St. around 9 o’clock.
Isn’t Pansy St. where the _resident resides with Reggie Love?
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Leash your dog. Not only is it law in VA cities and towns, it’s good sense.
Do postal carriers shoot unleashed dogs on the spot?
Sometime shootings are justified, if you’re stupid enough to walk an aggressive dog up to a cop unrestrained and it goes after him then that dog being put in harms way was your fault, not the cop.
Leash it when out of your own fenced yard and this wouldn’t happen.
I have a SECURITY DOG sign and a BEWARE OF DOG sign on my fence. None of my 4 dogs would bite or hurt anyone, one of them is a certified therapy dog. The signs are for burglars to see before they break in. Now that these dog shootings are happening over and over I am worried. If a policeman or fireman comes to my house, my dogs are going to bark and jump around. I hope and pray that they would not be shot.
BTW, for those who did not or could not read the article, I am not talking about one’s own backyard, especially the pooping part. LOL.