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Originally Posted by Darkatt
WOW!!
If I was a Cop, I would have done the exact same thing this cop did. I love animals, but I am not going to get bitten by a dog. Why wasn't the fence marked? Why wasn't the dog on a leash?
Why wasn't the Police Officer trained in animal control? Maybe because animal control isn't HIS job, isn't the Animals OWNER'S Job!!!
Are there any Police officers here in the forums?? What would you have done? I am interested in hearing from people who have to deal with this for real, instead of a bunch of armchair wannabes who don't know what they're talking about.
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I have had dogs, I havw worked in car garages with bad dogs you wouldn't want to meet, and I have had 0 problems with dogs except one.
I have been bitten by digs, a few my own, and first of all a dog bite isn't that bad, certainly not a life threat.
When I was bitten by my own great dane I was breaking up a dig fight, and the other dog was a Irish Wolf Hound. A girl had her hound on a long leather leash, but was in my side yard, and very odd location.
I didn't see the leash or her at first, and had to leave the shower I was taking to see what was up, so I was j bird naked, and just waded into the fray.
I beat on both dogs untill I got a grip on mine, and then saw the leash and the girl on the other end. I didn't say a word to her and I knew she wasn't comin' back.
The lay of that land is semi important as it was like a lolly pop the drive way in being the stick, the rest swap. I am sure the girl just took the driveway as a dirt road. I dragged my dane inside, finished the shower, dump hydrogen peroxide on the wounds from both dogs and took my dog to work as normal fixing cars.
The one bad dog was a dobbie, sicked on me 2 other male friends and all of had gf's with us in a public park. I heard the owner tell his dobbie to get us. Everyone but me back off, and I had time to wrap a jean jacket around my left arm and offered it. I have somewhat more respect for a dobbie who snap fast, and i know how they act. I used that action offering a bite and killed that dog dead breaking it's neck. I felt pretty bad about it, but that was the owners fault.
In this case the cop could have done the same thing, except no golden would have taken things that far.
This time the cop was wrong. If it was my golden that cop would be lucky to get a job flippin burgers again. The Dept would be sued up the wazoo as well.
So far the dog I would fear hasn'tr been born yet.
Once I got a job in a garage where no help would stay due to that guard dog. By chance that shop had a ft end for a car I needed, and I went there with my customer. The owner and my customer were still working out the deal, when I was finished getting the whole ft end out. I spent my time playing with that guard dog, having no idea the silent growing and showing of teeth were not play. In a few moments it was play, and then I found out the dog's vocal cords had been surgicly cut.
In time that dog bit me too. All my fault. I had just fed my dane, and then in the act of feeding the guard dog my dam dane rounded the corner because I forgot to close the fence. My dog and the owners dog just refused to get along, and so I got bit up again for breaking up another dog fight. Not a big deal. I washed up well, got more hydro, and was at work on time in the morning.
There have been other dog bites for me before and since, but it is never that big of a deal.
I would be ashamed of myself for killing several children's golden. The cop is a bad cop, for no more than fear of dogs which no cop should be.
Where I live are 2 dogs who go nuts anytime anyone drives in to here. The UPS guys all carry dog cookies. Of course drivers who come in here that are not familar fear the bears long before they fear the dogs.
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