Global BC Story: Police Kill Dog

[Freddy_Francis]

WARNING: Some may be bothered by some of the visuals in this 2:15 video. The only part of the video that disturbed me was the BULLSHIT coming outta the RCMP's mouth.
http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/index.h ... yJ12FkWgTJ

I don't usually get involved in the whole RCMP vs citizens, but honestly, even the RCMP cheerleaders should be disgusted with this. If not, get your head checked.

Side note: This isn't the first time its happen. Read a story last year in the Province, same idea. Family home in Surrey,police response to a call went through the wrong yard shot dog dead.

Personally as a dog owner I wouldn't have taken it as calmly as this guy did.

[Nark]

You're kidding me right?

I hope it didn't take more than 3 bullets to kill him. Then again the RCMP uses a peashooter.

[The Old Fogducker]

Freddy:

Your use of the word "Bullshit" conveys "lie" to me ... so what was the lie you feel was told by the Sgt?

As you are aware, Pit Bulls have a reputation as being dangerous ... deserved or not.

Foggy the doggy owner

[Freddy_Francis]

Like I said, I don't usually get involved in these RCMP threads.

Having said that, im sorry but Nark YOU gotta be kidding me...

You wanna do training and enter someone elses PRIVATE property without giving notice and your shocked that a dog attacks defending its territory? I don't give a damn if its a Pittbull (I don't own a pitbull for the record)

OFD...yes the pitbull breed sure as hell doesn't make any friends media wise, but I don't care, and im sure you wouldn't if this was you in the situation and your dog had been shot simply because of someone elses mistakes, its just not right. What bothered me about the sgt? Just the fact that they tip-toe around the fact that THEY screwed up.

[Nark]

I'm not Ceasr Milan, however I'm pretty sure the dead pitbull didn't come over wanting his belly rubbed.



If you want to stand on a soapbox and cry to the world about the RCMP invading private property, go ahead.
However in this case, you are out to lunch thinking that shooting an attacking dog is bullshit.

[Freddy_Francis]

So let me gt this straight just so I know were on the same page. RCMP come into your backyard, kill your pet and you go outside and crack open a beer and say "good shooting with that peashooter of yours!"....right

Your opinion is yours bud, whatever helps ya sleep at night

Have a Merry Christmas

[Siddley Hawker]

Personally I'm agin killing pit bulls. Pit bull owners, on the other hand, should be fair game.

[niss]

This is very unfortunate. This should never have happened. That said, if the Pitbull attacked an officer (the Dogs are also officers) it needed to be taken care of.

The RCMP should not have been there, they should have not put themselves, this dog or its owner in this position.

But once there I would not expect them to deal with it any other way.

I agree with Nark, what was wrong here was with how the RCMP were there in the first place, and that they were conducting training unannounced, and did not give the owner enough warning to remove his animal. But it looks like once there shooting the dog was necessary.

[Wilbur]

Sounds like the police acknowledge past practice has been to notify the neighbours, and this time they didn't in error. But, other than the pit bull owner, who says they were on the pit bull's property? Who owns the other house, where is the property line, and did they have that homeowner's permission to be there? Was the pit bull fenced in or running free? Even if all that goes against the cops, what were they supposed to do at the moment when the pit bull was attacking?

[Doc]

I must wonder. If it had been a Golden Retriever that launched the attack on the Police Dog, would their reactions have been any different? I'm willing to bet it would have had the same end result. Pity it wasn't a Poodle, or a Collie! Headlines would have read: POLICE GUN DOWN LASSIE.....Timmy never returns home from falling down the well...film at eleven....

[ZBBYLW]

IMO it was appropriate for the RCMP to shoot the Pit Bull. The Pit Bull was attacking an officer (the K-9 gets the same rights as any other cop). Sure the officers may not have been in an appropriate location, but say a police officer was doing training and then some drunk/drugged up crazy guy started attacking the police officer as he was "cutting across his property" they deserve to be shot.

Just the liberal media trying to beat up on the RCMP again, even though they do quite alot to keep us safe.

[The Old Fogducker]

So according to some, here's how it went down .... a trigger-happy rookie just about mad with desire to pop off a few rounds into some flesh stumbles across a Pit Bull. Knowing these dogs have a bad reputation, and even Judge Judy ... a dog lover herself ... advocates that Pit Bulls not be kept because of their unpredictability .. the rookie feels its time for a little extra-judicial eradication of a problem. He'll be complainant, investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner ... must be great to collect all the overtime from those jobs.

He sneaks into the yard and goads the poor hapless Pit into a strike, then pops him with his 22 short revolver.

"Commere mutt .... I'm Dudley Dooright, and I'm just cruisin' the neighbourhood looking for a dog to beat up."

In reality, its likely the coppers shouldn't have been conducting a training excersize on private property, but once the dog attacks viciously, the officer didn't have much choice but to shoot it to protect his police dog and himself from serious injury.

As a dog owner, I'm sure I wouldn't want to see my dog end up dying that way, and the TV reporter getting a shot of the little girl looking out the window was a nice touch of pathos. Examining the news media, it is rare that a reporter actually likes cops. I've been around reporters a long, long time and they seem to universally have a deep disrespect for law enforcement, except as a source of story material which may eventually be big enough to provide them with a by-line.

The Old Fogducker

[Brown Bear]

The cops were actually Trespassing. That's what they call being univited on private property. Used to be illegal. Guess that all changes with a badge and a gun??

[Wilbur]

How do you know the cops were tresspassing? The news clip just said they were on private property.
Who owns that property and did they give the police permission to be there? For all anyone knows from the news clip, it could have been the cops own home.

[raven54]

The police dog has the same rights as a human officer??? Give me a fuckin break!! What rights did the pitbull have, cockroach rights? If it had of been another breed would it's actions have been seen as "attacking"? I doubt it.

[dashx]

http://www.dogsbite.org/blog/2009/01/so ... -more.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXiO_duXa5A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcsoDsUk ... ature=fvwp

Pray that you don't have to (ever) defend yourself against a pitbull.

The dog should not have attacked under any circumstance.

The pitbull is a killer (ya ya prove me wrong pitbull lovers). As a matter of fact any dog (or cat etc etc) put under the right cirumstances will attack. But this particular breed is used as a weapon (whether its for offense or defense) and this has been proven time and time again.

What if a child had been playing next door and accidentally wandered into the dog's territory? I mean back yard. Or front yard. Which hopefully was fenced off.

Did the RCMP hop a fence (with their own dog) to get in the back yard? Was the dog on a chain? Did the shooting occur in the front yard?

Dog dead. Case closed.