Im Looking to Adopt A retired Drug Dog - Page 2

Glad he got his own thread. 

I agree, Shelley...if cat owners kept their cats at home instead of allowing them to roam, the lifespan of the average cat would be significantly longer for many reasons...

On a brighter note, I am seeing more and more cat owners doing just that: building really neat additions onto their homes that allow their cats to enjoy the outdoors at will, in a safe, secure enclosure. Some of them are actually pretty attractive architecturally too.

I find it curious that a dog would be put down for killing a cat, especially a working dog.  It must be a local city ordinance otherwise many surrounding jusrisditions would be low on K-9's.  I have never heard of a dog being put down for killing a cat.  You learn something new every day. 

Good point, Jim. Seems  a tad dramatic, no?

I've had cat killers. 90% are cat chasers, then you have the diehard killers, the ones who think about hunting cats when they can't hunt cats, the ones with dozens of kills to their names. At any rate, it's never occurred to me that they should be put down. Kept away from cats, yes.

Slam wrote:
"I find it curious that a dog would be put down for killing a cat, especially a working dog.  It must be a local city ordinance otherwise many surrounding jusrisditions would be low on K-9's.  I have never heard of a dog being put down for killing a cat.  You learn something new every day."

This is why it is SO important for people to read and know what their city/county/hamlet/village etc outlines in their AC Bylaws.
It is the same here, it is up to a "panel" to decide the fate of your dog if it is deemed a "Vicious Dog" by AC Officers.
There are several options, but one is indeed PTS. The "Vicious Dog" law has a list of actions that could deem your dog as "vicious".

Sadly, it doesn't surprise me that a locality would enact a law that would order the destruction of any dog that has killed another domestic animal...as workingdogz notes, this is the kind of thing that starts out as being driven by good intentions and spirals off into overly restrictive laws.  I'm glad Arco was allowed to be relocated--some municipalities wouldn't have ever permitted that to happen, fearing they could be liable if the dog killed something else in the future. :( I owned a Siberian who was a documented cat-killer when I got him, and it took some work but he learned that behavior was no longer permitted.  I've owned a GSD who had killed chickens, too, and eventually she learned not to do so, either. But if either of these dogs had 'slipped' and reverted back to their old habit, it would have been ridiculous to blame the dogs--drives are hard-wired in them, just as we have our own, and there's a limit to what self-control can accomplish at times.

Without consent, on what basis would you be able to sniff a fugitive's home after he was in custody?  Please explain.

Might be a bad idea to re-train a bomb dog to do narc work. It'd be a tragic mistake if he hits on explosives and you reach in, expecting to find dope......hope he finds a good home though.

 

Fortunately, someone I know and love has expressed interest in this dog.
I hope it works out for him.