officer shoots dog a different prospective - Page 7

In his defense, My husband use to be called to accident scenes and will come home and tell me about them. I will read about them in the newspaper the next day and I can tell you, there is no way the reporter and my husband were at the same accident, not even close.

I am very bothered by the fact, if the dog was chained, this should not have happened, period.

MORAL OF THE STORY -

Don't leave your dog unattended, even if it's your right to do so. You can't control the outside parties.

PSP,

"I do know that if I made a "mistake" of this magnitude on my own job I would be on unemployment in a hurry as would most people who work in the real world."

Believe me sir, you, and most of the morons who's lives are so pathetic they feel the need to post daily on this board, have absolutely NO IDEA what the REAL WORLD is. You live your life masked in a fake reality of what happens around you daily. The real world? You go to work and punch a time clock; you deal with deadlines on a project or an asshole boss. Go to work tomorrow, and hold a young girl and tell her it's gonna be okay that she finally came forward and told someone her Dad's been having sex with her for 10 years. Or speak to the wife that gets the shit beaten outta her daily by the pathetic loser drunk upset with how his life's turned out. Take a check on the welfare run to the home of a 92 year old woman who fell down, injured herself, and died in that spot, helpess, because no one in her life cared or ever came by enough to notice something was wrong until her neighbors noticed the smell.

The "real world?" You, and most on here, have no clue. You are idiots who preach about "how" and "what" should be done. You have no clue as to what goes on around you, under your noses even, but you all are so quick to tell people how to do these difficult jobs. You are the problem here in the real world. People who know nothing about nothing, sitting on live TV for our enemies to see, quizzing 4-star Generals with 40 years in the military on why they did what they did.

Tell the people who "pay me to do" my job, to give me a raise, shut the f*** up, and let me do my job and protect them.

The last serious bite I took was from a Rottweiler that I was trying to calm after I rescued him from a shed where some jerk had locked him for 2-3 days without food or water. Aware that he was somewhat edgy, I stroked him gently under his chin gradually working to the sides of his face. When my hand brushed his ear he lunged and bit. I instinctively kicked him squarely in the chest. By the time he landed several feet away (1 or 2 seconds) I was thinking rather than reacting, and felt considerable remorse even though my hand was bleeding and  my veins and tendons were exposed. I am not a LEO, but I am a lifetime gun enthusiast.One of the first lessons that my father taught me was that the gun does NOT come out unless you intend to use it and are prepared to follow through. I would almost never draw on a dog, as I would consider it first unnecessary, and second unsafe considering the nature of a confrontation between man and dog.  With regard to emptying the gun, I have always been taught, and firmly believe that in any situation the double tap is the best, safest, and most effective. A person who empties his weapon is generally 1. A terribly ignorant BarneyFife;  2. A revenge killer; 3. Someone scared out of his pants; 4. Two or more of the above.

I am doing my best to refrain from passing judgement as some have very rightly raised some questions with regard to possible explanations and mitigating circumstances as well as possible variables in the facts of this case, but I have my own questions as to how anyone can possibly justify such extreme response to such a limited threat. While it might be possible to rationalize under LE protocol, it just can not be right. Best Wishes, Jonah

I don't like the fact of judging another cop, I've been on the job 27 years, what I do question (if it is fact) is that the same guy is involved in 3 dog shootings.  No matter how ya look at it ya got a problem there............  plus the fact the dog was restrained.............

 john

jdh,  I shot my first handgun when I was about 5 years old, with my Dad holding my wrists to help me,  I was taught Gun Safety, Eticuit, and RESPONSIBILITY !!  And one of the FIRST things I was taught was if you point at it, shoot it.  No thinking, No backing out,  If you point it, pull the trigger.  I grew up hunting have hunted all my life,  have taken some nice trophy's and have had my share of dissapointments,  but have always hunted with the RESPECT to take the animal swiftly by careful shot placement,  and if the shot was not right,  you simply waited until it was, or you left dissapointed,  but knowing you have done no harm in letting one get away.  That's part of hunting,  sometimes it does not all come together, and true sportsman will have more dissapointments than Trophy's.

Seriously,  I certainly hope your post did not include me in your "real world" ranting,  Don't forget I am the one who DID find our friend downed in his bathroom with a stroke, called for the ambulance, kept my cool head and had enough sense to not only grab all of his medications to take to the hospital but also had enough sense to grab the bag the Ambulance Crew had left behind !!!   I went to the hospital and gave them everything I had,  of course I had grabbed his wallet so they could have things like his VA Card, DOB, and other pertinents.    I cared for his horses for 2 months at that property, cared for the fish, and payed the bills for him after obtaining a POA,  I did all this all the while doing my job at the shelter.  And now he lives with my family,  He is very incapacitated due to the stroke,  he can not speak and it's horribly frustrating for him,  He is also diabetic and needs Insulin given to him, and he takes about 30 pills a day, and has a pain patch that is changed every 3 days.  I still do my job at the shelter...

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