Ohio Cops OFF a Chihuahua - Page 4

I’m not saying I defend the cops’ actions... yet I do think that owners need to take –ownership!- of a dog before a tragedy happens. I wouldn’t espouse leaving a dog outside if the owners weren’t home. And dogs do behave differently without their people than they do with them; often more protective of their turf. (My growl and bark at the goings on outside when left alone, they don’t when I’m there.)

Should the police have called animal control? Yep, I’d say so.

I think it was just a tragic combination of bad judgment calls all around.

Ironically the thing that bothers me the most is that the parents told their son “oh, the dog ran away.” I have this thing about lying to kids. I’d rather tell him something like “Jack’s not coming home” or whatnot, but don’t think it’s particularly nice to leave the kid with some dangling hope that the dog might come back. Kids do remember that stuff…

Just a mistake-fest on everyone’s part, IMO.
 

Blue Ash Tax Dollar at work.  3 officers to control a 5lb rat sized chihuahua

Lock up your Chihuahuas, Keep them off your Porch.. and whatever you do, dont call the police.

That chihuahua was one tough dude. George lopez tough

The so-called disagreement here cannot be real.  Some of you just want to argue for the fun of it.

We all know that one has to be a physical coward to panic over a dog bite from a chihuahua.  If this is the case, the coward with a gun needs to have his badge removed.

If it wasn't panic, then it was an act of pathological cruelty.  Ditto on losing the badge.

NO ONE can believe that a pair of cops who taser and shoot (three times!) a five pound dog are safe -- or sane.

Many of the people here have been bitten by dogs much, more more dangerous than a toy dog -- and we dealt with it relatively calmly, without killing anything.  I was once bitten badly enough by a dog in a dog fight (an 85 pound golden retriever) to send me to the ER, and I know my reaction was not to kill the dog, but to calm it down.

The rhetoric about not discriminating against large dogs is nonsense.  A cop has good reason to believe that a 90 pound dog  biting a jogger is much more of a threat than a 5 pound dog doing the same.  The chihuahua is at most a nuisance.





 
 

Held has it exactly right -- these cops are "fear biters".  Or perhaps they are "shy sharp."

Glad I don't live in that screwed up town!