Good fences make good neighbors.
The story says that the dog was shot in the rear. Sounds like a trigger happy bicyclist to me...
I used to ride my motorcycle up my narrow block late at night from work. Almost every night a large German Shepherd would run up to me but usually give me a few feet to pass. One night she did not stop and came right to my left side. I removed my left , cowboy booted foot from the peg and hit her square in the head and rolled her. For quite a while after that she barked at me from her front porch till I moved later that year. I didn’t really hurt her.....just got her attention. I wouldn’t shoot a dog unless I was sure it meant me harm. Fine line I guess.
From the original news article:
Bessler described Mike as a nice dog who was gentle with children, enjoyed being petted and always wanted to play ball.
“He would never attack someone,” he said. “The only time he ever protected property was when somebody stepped on to my property and looked into the back of my truck.”
Bessler added that Mike effectively had no teeth from years of chewing rocks out of anxiety.
Bessler said Mike “never gets out on the road” and would only briefly run alongside people passing by.
“I believe the gentleman just shot the dog on my property,” Bessler said, adding, “I don’t buy his story.”
The man said the encounter took place in the road, and Steward said that’s consistent with what the neighbor told the deputy.
“She comes out, and laying in the intersection was this guy’s bike and him standing there,” Steward said.
The man initially reported he’d been attacked by a “pack of dogs,” but he later admitted that — while several other dogs came near him — only Mike threatened him, Mathess said.
Bessler said the three other dogs with Mike when the incident occurred were smaller than Mike, including a puppy, and that none of them are aggressive.
“If it went down the way the guy said it did, then so be it,” Bessler said. “But I’m disgusted with the fact that the guy hasn’t even shown his face to say, ‘I’m sorry this happened.’”
Steward said the Sheriff’s Office plans to follow up on a few inconsistencies, such as whether bird or buck shot was used, but he said “everything’s pretty consistent with what the victim’s telling us.”
Bessler said his next step will be having an autopsy performed and “memorializing, remembering Mike and taking care of services.”
“I don’t know,” he said. “I’m still so flabbergasted over the whole thing of why a person would be carrying the types of things he (the bicyclist) was carrying.”
Steward doesn’t think it’s that unusual for someone to be carrying a weapon.
“A lot of people, when they walk or ride bikes around here, they’ve got pepper spray, a gun or a stick,” he said. “And that’s because dogs come out and chase bikes (and) people.”
The sheriff called it “tragic all the way around.”
http://powelltribune.com/news/item/14141-service-dog-retired-military-k-9-killed-in-weekend-incident
The dog's just being a dog. You don't have to shoot it, or kick it, or pepper spray it...
I would imagine he'd "deal" with them like thousands of other vets.
its pretty hard to ride a bike with one hand, feet moving, and with the other hand draw and shoot a pistol. that makes me wonder what really happened.
So the guy has severe PTSD and he is running around the woods with weapons?
Doggie ping
Doggieping
My mom lives in this town. I will have to ask her about the incident.
Bessler questions the bicyclist’s account, saying the dog was shot in the rear. “He has his story,” he told the Tribune. “I know my dog. I have my story.”
“I mean, it’s way too soon,” he told the paper. “I mean, it’s every time I see him everywhere that I go. Because he was, he was with me almost everywhere I went and he was always playing and he was always ... he always wanted to play and everybody loved him. Everybody could pet him.” Bessler said.
Bessler added jokingly, “nobody had problems with him unless they had a ball.”
In the old west this would have been taken care of. Not these days.
You’re a liberal. Aren’t you.
The local papers account of this incident:
Bessler questions many parts of the bicyclist’s account.
“He has his story,” Bessler said. “I know my dog. I have my story.”
The man told the Sheriff’s Office, and the dog’s wounds show, that he shot the dog in the rear.
“In my mind, it’s inconsistent with a dog that’s attacking somebody,” Bessler said, saying that two pellet marks went directly toward Mike’s heart.
Bessler described Mike as a nice dog who was gentle with children, enjoyed being petted and always wanted to play ball.
I’d like to attack those damn bicyclists..
Let’s see...
The dog had PTSD? Was even prescribed Prozac? Got out on road and chasing cyclist? Methinks the dog committed suicide by cyclist.
Combat working dog, trained to sniff out bombs.
If they are saying he is suffering from PTSD maybe he smelled the ammo and had a flashback.
Especially if the rider was Middle Eastern OR panicked and swerved towards the dog.
But that still doesn’t ‘allow’ the dog to be roaming ESPECIALLY if he has ‘flashbacks’.
Someone said the Vet should face his ‘problems’ like every one else...consider they were probably in combat together and the attachment is life long...Then again - if that is the case maybe the dog should have went hunting with the Vet BUT since people aren’t programmed to see ‘Service Dogs’ as only for the blind, the dog probably wasn’t welcome in most places???