Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: zingzang
but popping a dog that is a potential attacker, what's the big deal?

The big deal is the dog wasn't attacking. Your attitude that an innocent family pet can be "popped" for nothing, and is no "big deal" if it *is* a pitbull dog, is sick.

Cops shouldn't shoot innocent dogs, even if it is a "pitbull." Your attitude seems to imply as long as the cops are just guilty of shooting innocent dogs that "appear" to be a pitbull, everything is peachy. Rationality is apparently dead, where you live.

173 posted on 01/09/2003 10:02:23 AM PST by keri
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 153 | View Replies ]


To: keri
The big deal is the dog wasn't attacking

I'd say that's inconclusive at best from the video. If you had the gun, and the dog (a pit bull/boxer mix) was running at you barking, what would you do? Negotiating with a dog usually doesn't work very well, especially after it's latched onto your leg.

I don't think it's okay for cops or anyone else to shoot an innocent dog. I do think that this whole thing was handled wrong from start to finish, to put it mildly. The worst thing is the treatment of the family. Until we have cops that are paid a decent wage out there, we will continue to have incidents like this.

455 posted on 01/10/2003 11:41:22 AM PST by zingzang
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 173 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson