Shooting Dogs.....

[blazedawg87]

The dogs across the street from me are lucky i didnt have my sidearm on me last weekend. Working in the garage on my bike, hear them barking and see them come running into my yard (nothing new because they chase squirrels all the time behind my house), then i see my 13yo lab try to crawl under our tahoe but shes to slow and feeble to get under it fast. The other dogs were attacking my old lab whos scared of her own shadow! Thankfully i had an old golf club in the corner and got a lick on the main one before they could hurt her. I say this because my lab has been with me over half of my life (Got her when i was 9) and she is family. I will do anything for that dog. Had i had my sidearm there wouldve been atleast one dead dog laying in my yard (4 were after her, 2 of which were attacking her). Told the neighbors if this ever happened again on my property they would be scraping their dogs off the grass if i seen it happening.

This story touches home hard to me. Labs are the least violent dogs on the planet! My dog and im assuming his dog are family members. Hell i prefer my lab over some of my family! This type of thing is out of control and needs to be dealt with. This should be treated as if that dog was a human being because to the owner it was more than that! When a dog sees its owners face after a time of absence, they are said to have the same feeling that us humans have when we truly love another human. This makes me sick. The cop should be fired and never allowed to be LEO again.

 

[07JKX]

Wait.. So cops murder a vicious lab and show no sympathy... And they lived? What a terrible ending to the story. Oh well, there are plenty of crackheads that may gun them down in the future on a routine traffic stop.


My sympathies go to your friend.

 

[Zombie Ninja]

This is a damn shame! I'm in for the shooting protest if there is one.

 

[DogLegArms]

Seriously, how common is it to be seriously injured by a lab that the officer was in such fear he had to shoot it? The officer was able to identify the breed and even know it's weight .

And so what if he got bit? I've been bitten several times by dogs throughout my life and I didn't have to use a gun to stop it. In everyday life, it's not like "When Animals Attack".

 

[Bigbossman]

i will say this the cop was in the wrong he could have used mace,,,,but i will all so say this. I do auto glass and go to peoples houses all the time and run into all kinds of dogs. the dog most likely to bite you is a chocolate lab....not the golden or black lab they dont bother you..the chocolate lab will 90% of the time....i have had more chocolate labs try to bite me than pit bulls and rots...but i really feel bad for your buddy...i have dogs as well and it would kill me if that happened to one of mine...my hart gos out to him...

 

[dawgs511]

What a joke. Have heard nothing good about Cobb County Police....even from someone I know that recently retired from working there for over a decade. I have been told this department is going down the toilet fast. This officer should lose his job.

Let me know if you get a group to go down to the station or anything else that I can help with. I would be more than happy to attend.

 

[Gunznswords]

Police are out of control, you hear things like this and worst things through out the country! The ones that truly want to serve and protect the people are a minority now. They view the people as the enemy and its so widespread I think thats what they're being taught! America is now a Police State!

 

[drewga11]

I know I don't know the specifics of exactly how this went down, but if someone enters my house through the back door, unannounced and starts shooting, I'm shooting back.

 

[Bear44]

Why didn't the home owner secure the dog when he KNEW there would be a LE response to the alarm? This is especially true since he had already heard the dog start barking once before and thought it may have been the police.

As for the breed being a lab, you can find any personality in any breed. I've met labs that would do there best to kill you if they had the chance. They are rare, but they do exist.

The LEO had permission to enter the home unannounced. That is PART OF THEIR JOB when responding to an alarm and the owner has agreed to it when they had the alarm installed.

If there is more to this story, I want to hear it and will reserve final judgment until I do. However, what I get from this story so far is that the LEO entered the home the way he should have, was looking for a potentially armed intruder and a full grown, 70 pound plus aggressive dog came at him.

BTW, an aggressive dog does not know or care if you're a good guy or bad guy and identifying yourself to it and telling it to drop the weapon does not work, so trying to replace the word dog with "Homeowner" in this story does not work.

When I'm evaluating a dog that has aggressive tendencies for a family I warn them that, though I love dogs, the safety of a human trumps the life of a dog every time and my evaluation is going to take that into account. If the wrong situation occurs almost any dog can become dangerously aggressive. Unless someone is a real expert with lots of experience it can be VERY difficult to determine in a split second whether the dog that is confronting you is serious or just bluffing. It's not the responsibility of LE to find out the hard way, especially when they are already in a potentially dangerous situation.

I wonder how many of you being charged by a strange aggressive dog when you had a gun in your hand REALLY would not pull that trigger. For those of you that will say, "It's not my job to make that call, but it is a cop's", no hell it's not. Not when it's concerning a dog's life rather than a human's life and they are already in a situation where they could be fighting for their own life against an armed human in the next split second.

Do you guys really think this LEO shot the dog just for the hell of it?

 

[Beerman]

I am sorry for your buddies loss of a great friend. This has gotten me so pissed off. Thank god I live in Cobb!!!