Tyler, Texas Policelady attacked by Pits - Page 3

Today the Judge and the county commissoners met and she lowered the hammer and said by next week we will have in place , new laws and reinforcement, and she reinterated, inforce laws already in place, but only two animal control officers, for a whole county , trying to run all over every precinct....and that every constables office will , from now on have a animal control person, to enforce animal law...She was hot to trot, and she said it is time to put a stop to unresponsible people letting dogs bite, and maul any officer, or citizen and if a child had been on site yesterday, a very dangerous accident and possible a death could  have occured.   It is time and I will go to no stop and spend the dollars to see that this court gets those implements into force....

They are talking of a law , that any person whos animal harms a person, will face the possiblity of 20 years in prison and in case of death of a person by a violent animal, life will be the end result and there was one more , I do not recall..Tyler  news will have more tomorrow , Im quite sure....

Well guys, I recieved an email from Kenneth Dean, the writer of the article regarding Deputy Jay. Animules had stated he wondered  what the other breeds involved in the dog bites were, and  this is what he sent back.

"The dogs were not all pit bulls... One was a mastiff and another was a
German shepherd. We have had numerous attacks from pit bulls, but any
dog
can attack. Hope this helps."

I had hoped the German Shepherd would not be mentioned, but once again here is another incident that should be blamed on an irresponsible dog owner.

Debbie in Texas 

another incident that should be blamed on an irresponsible dog owner.  

Very well said...Debbie

I assume the German Shepherd is the Lindale Pd officers dog.....never heard of a Mastif on the police forcell lol

I don't remember reading it was a police dog, just a dog owned by a police family?

Im still looking for the article in 2 weeks ago  Ill email the author  one of the webmasters for tyler paper is supppose to get back to me the article on the Lindale Pd officers yard, and the incident... it was front page and addressed the lease law , as the headlines of the day  in  Smith County...

Get A Real Dog,
good post, you brought up some good points that unfortunatly will not be grasped. One being media perspectives ( which is a huge one in the U.S. )and those that want to fan the flames, ( we just get a taste of that here) One thing to add. The point about Max being tied, you stated that we don't know for sure that the dog was tied. Actually the dog being tied would be even More aggressve, and More proned to bite .  A tied dog with any aggression issues  is something potentially very dangerous.  E. German, good nerves or bad, tied, staked out etc. is not good.

Many years ago I came around a corner going to a shop and came across an aggressive GSD. He was all about business. Instinctively I started running backwards ( faster then most run frontwards) to get away. I saw he had a chain on him but didn't know how long it was, I just kept hoping it would end before he got me. It finally ended and I was happy. I then notice a bunch of guys from the shop all laughing as they had watched the whole thing. I was a kid then and scared to death. If I would have had a gun that dog would have died that day, and I would have unloaded all I had. Dog being tied only adds to my concern that the dog was infact something very aggressive. But sense I was not there it is just my opinion of what it may have been like for the officer.