Legal System Going To The Dogs

[PornoDoggy]

I agree - the lawsuit is absurd.

That being said - they are very dangerous dogs that should be treated with the utmost respect. We had a cop/handler and his dog as neighbors when I was a kid, and he jumped a fence and attacked an eleven year old girl who was merely running in her own back yard.

It doesn't happen often, but I'd be willing to bet there are a dozen or more incidents a year like it.

[MorganGrayson]

PD...that incident, as usual, is the fault of the humans. The dog should have been restrained. It's very easy to buy a chain that will hold the dog and equipment to fasten it down, as any trip to Petco will show.

When my neighbor's dog murdered one of the cats I intended to take in, I made it clear to the Animal Control Officer that it wasn't the dog I wanted punished. It was the humans. There yard was fenced, with a gate in the driveway, and inside the yard they had another fenced off area for the back yard. I told the Officer (nice lady, she dealt with my hysterical tears very well) that if I had a setup like that, I'd own a LOT of dogs. I told her that as angry and upset as I was, I knew it was always the human's fault, not the dogs. (The fucking animal was vicious and if I was a gun owner I'd have shot the damned thing, but I didn't feel the need to share that information.)

Police dogs are taught that running people are guilty of something and need to be taken down.

In the lawsuit case, however, the dog was under the control of the officer.

It was fun watching the dogs come flying out of the car when the cop in the big padded suit did his pretend attacking of the dog's officer. The kids were always awed by that. "How did the dog get the door open????"