Posted on 07/25/2010 4:22:31 PM PDT by Chet 99
Edited on 07/25/2010 4:31:08 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON - Gary Tavenner is seeing his dog, Gidget, for the first time since a surgery that probably saved her life. Gidget was shot twice in the backyard of the family's home in Chevy Chase. The person on the other end of the gun was a Metropolitan Police Officer.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdc.com ...
LOL!!!!!
and Border Collie
When you crossbreed different breeds that have patterned coats, solid black is a common outcome. Dog has the relatively short muzzle and lop ears of the Aussie, but the coat is a little more like a BC although Aussies can be a bit shaggy. I'd have to see her standing to judge her body type (and of course that's not possible right now).
THAT is the actual dog they shot???? They FEARED????
Shooting a dog in Chevy Chase? What is this world coming to?
Officers responded to a burglar alarm, accidentally triggered by a house guest.
The alarm company called the owner’s cell phone.
When she called back, she told them it was a false alarm.
“They asked me if I wanted them to stop the police,
and I said yes, because they’ll kill my dog.”
Agreed!!!
After reading the Fox News article, I can see it was a tough situation for the police. We do not know how often the police have to deal with home burglar alarms, or what risks they are taking when they approach such a home. You cannot let your guard down just because there are many false alarms; letting your guard down can be fatal, especially in DC, the crime capital of the world (at least in the top ten).
Whether or not the police used proper restraint will be known after the investigation. I hope that Gidget fully recovers, and that the police department improves their methods (training to deal with owners dogs without undue force).
this granny also agrees with Brad’s gramma...now stop that..
All is well now....R2 made amends. ;) :)
OK thanks....:O)
Ok, we have officers shooting dogs that are doing their jobs, protecting their property.
We don’t want the dogs shot and we don’t want police officers chewed on, well some here might, but animals getting hurts makes anyone with a conscience angry.
We cannot expect officers to know the tendencies and disposition of each breed and be able to determine if the dog will charge and bark or charge and bite all within a couple seconds. We also need to be cognizant that if the officer does not defend themselves successfully and sustains a career ending injury, say, severed finger or nerve damage from a bite, the public is going to be paying for that officers lifelong disability and medical bills for a long time without the benefit of the officer serving the public.
There are some damn smart folks on this forum. What are some alternatives?
LOL!!!
As soon as we started the “War on Drugs” under Nixon (only one of many liberal policies he gave us) the police became more an occupation army than a protector of citizens.
We either need to teach our puppies to shoot, or be there to shoot back.
The police attitude seems to be that they need to get home, regardless of the cost to others. They’ve long since forgotten that they are civilians, just as are we.
Guess what? I have the same attitude, and so should be able to take the same action.
To be fair, around here our cops are fine. Our first dog went through the police chief’s car window one fine afternoon. We did have to retrieve him, but, licensed, that was it. Since we live in the woods, they get to walk themselves, but all of the neighbors know who they are, so it all works out.
The dogs are here not only because we like our animals, but to warn and protect. The cops can wait.
Did you see the (lack of) teeth!
They could have been gummed to death!
Oh, the bruising!
(I’m a gramma too, as of May May 24!)
I don’t know...my first thought would be that if you HEARD the dog barking...to not go in in the first place. Have someone on the other side of the house watching that area, IN CASE there is a burglary, (which they weren’t yet aware of)...and nab the ‘tard trying to escape that way!
If the dog continues barking at them, MY assumption would be there WAS no one else in the yard.
I guess.
I don’t know, I’ve never been in that position..
Congratulations!!!! Boy? Girl?? We have another one coming at the end of October!!!
And yes, I noticed how old that dog was..this surgery will be mighty hard on a dog that old, IMHO..
You have FReepmail!
:)
Just because it is written into law does not make just, right or moral. In many circumstances being a police officer is as honorable as being a lawyer.
When you have a badge and a gun, everything looks like a silhouette target.
Officer McTriggerhappyjackass needs to find a job that doesn’t tax the braincells more than asking “White or Wheat for your sandwich sir”?
My burg, too...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
BEAUTIFUL animals!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2558893/posts?page=9#9
Doggie number 2. Wants dinner. Now.
Sorry, Chet for hi-jacking your thread.
See ya later, Gators!
Alternatively, if the police in your locality are prone to make “mistakes” about addresses when they make SWAT raids, one should have a dog or two in the yard for the police to shoot because they think they have the right and privilege of shooting someone on such a raid. Giving them a dog to shoot may well save the life of one or one’s wife or child.
If it’s loke most Border Collies, it probably brought the bullet back to the cop and waited to be shot again.
I think their union contracts must have provisions giving them the right to shoot someone if they go to a house for some reason. It seems that if there is a doge present then the privilege must be exercised on the dog rather than on a human. That is the humanitarian side of police work.
Thjey won’t come to your house because your dogs are barking and won’t shoot them because they are barking. They will come to your house for code enforcement or to ask a question about a neighbor or to drop by to say howdy to a neighbor. They will shoot your dog because your dog is there and they have that right.
Woe betide the cop who ever would shoot my dog. One way or another, eventually, he’d be toast.
Looks like cataracts, too.
Maybe when the cops showed her their badges, she couldn’t read them and got suspicious.
They aren’t going into law enforcement to “serve” so much anymore. They are attracted to the power. They use steroids. They like to watch cage fighting. They can’t wait for a punk to get in their face so they can hurt him.
I suspect steroids have a lot to do with it.
Just another rare, isolated example of the 99% giving the 1% a bad name.
Chevy Chase is in Maryland, just over the DC border. Why MPD instead of locals?
ANd when a dog is on guard, there are not burglars, at least not around my house (or at least live ones). We had a K-9 with us for years and a mutt. You would not want to tangle with either one.
They’d take off both your arms and give you back a finger.
“Protected by Black Lab for assistance call and my cell number.
this is inexcusable.If you cant handle a family pet then turn in your dammed badge and gun
I bet that is what happened so confused is the right word.....oh my sometimeshiemers !!!!!!
I bet that is what happened so confused is the right word.....oh my sometimeshiemers !!!!!!
My tomcat wants to whiz on the occifer for Gidget.
How does an officer feel threatened by a dog that is running away? How do you shoot the back end of a dog that is running at you?
>>Yes ma’am. No ma’am.
I’d never disrepect a grandma, ma’am!
I’d rather face a pitbull and a bully cop with a tazer.
Ma’am.<<
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Sorry, Granny Babe, but I’s too ornery, ugly and just downright mean boned to ever think bout gettin down on my belly and wrigglin around for an old gal like you, even if you are infected with that wretched, evil hearted PMS disease. I’d rather go tooth to tooth with yer dogs before I’d scavenge like that. An’ I’ll tell you sumptin else Lady, I can take my teeth out and still wup them German shepards that you got. ‘Specially after I’ve had sum lunch and my noon nap.
The cop apparently got into Lee Oswald’s box of magic bullets.
That sounds so much like the reaction of dear old Bubba, my black lab.
He frightens some people because he is large (over a hundred pounds) but then they look at him and unless they’re afraid of kisses ....
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