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Cops will execute every dog they see but if one of their k9 units goes out of control and you kill it in self defense they'll make you wish you let their mutt kill you.
Not my joke, but:
Sure you say refund the police, but when someone breaks into your car, who are you going to call that'll show up 4 hours later and shoot your dog?
Sky also reportedly still blue
Don't call police about any person or animal you aren't willing to see dead. This should be common sense by now.
Don't call police ~~about any person or animal you aren't willing to see dead~~. This should be common sense by now.
~~Don't call~~ police ~~about any person or animal you aren't willing to see~~ dead. This should be common sense by now.
~~Don’t call police about any person or animal you aren’t willing to see dead.~~ This ~~should be common sense by now.~~
Cops are like a box of chocolates. They'll kill your dog.
After authorities had been at the premises for 30 minutes, "officers and animal control attempted to safely remove the dog and instructed its owner to leash the dog to walk it to the animal control vehicle." ... Police said that they had "observed the dog for signs of playfulness or normal behavior but became concerned when the dog’s approach escalated into aggressive behavior, including jumping up with its mouth open in an attacking manner within very close proximity to the officer. In response to the threat, the officer discharged his duty-issued handgun, firing three rounds at the dog. The dog succumbed to its injuries."
God forbid you use a knee to the chest, or baton, or pepper spray, or the fucking animal control lasso pole.
Nope, straight to bullets. Bullets fix everything. Thank god it wasn't an abused goldfish, they might have been forced to firebomb the whole neighborhood.
They're such a bunch to fucking pussies.
A few years back we adopted a 100lb pit who was rescued from a dog fighting ring. He was evidently very sweet from the beginning, but extremely protective of my wife. We could be sitting next to eachother and laugh a little too hard and it would set him off.
There were a few times in the beginning where he came at me with murder in his eyes and I'd have to pin him down and pop a leash on so I could put some space between us. We got one of those poles that helped a lot. I'm a buck 30 dripping wet with no training of any sorts and at the time was constantly drunk, yet it was simple enough to figure out how to take control of the situation while minimizing harm to anyone involved. He definitely got a little banged up, I bled a time or two, but at the end of the day we were both alive.
I can't imagine the incompetence, cowardice, and utter disregard for life that it takes to shoot a dog. Get fucking bit, distract it so someone else can gain control, don't be a fucking pussy.
Dogs kill people. It’s not always 2 adults, one dog. Sometimes it’s 2 dogs, one woman or one child. The victim could be the dog’s owner, or it could be someone out for a walk and two strange dogs on the loose.
I totally get that, I've been horrified of dogs since I got my arm tore up when I was in high school and almost lost my hand stupididly try to save a pug from a German Shepard on the loose by throwing my arm in the middle. That shit is horrifying. Why I decided I wanted a giant pitbull when I couldn't walk past a poodle without taking my eyes off it? Who knows.
But in a case where there's multiple "trained" cops and animal control on the scene. I think the cops stand a good change to walk away with nothing more than a couple puncture wounds and a restrained dog instead of a dead one. I can definitely see situations where you have to shoot it, I don't think this was one of those situations.
Cops are trained to shoot first, maybe someday we'll all get lucky and they'll all shoot themselves in the head cause their braindead anyway.
Don't call 911 for mentally ill family either. They'll send cops.
DOJ: Police Shooting Family Dogs has Become ‘Epidemic’
Cops in this country kill so many dogs each year that a specialist at the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) community-oriented program services office says it has become an “epidemic.” The DOJ estimates that around 25 to 30 dogs are killed by cops every day, with some numbers as high as 10,000 per year. The totals could, in fact, be higher, since most police agencies do not formally track officer-involved shootings involving animals.
It’s like cops live in another reality where the meme is “can you shoot the dog?”
ACAB
Never call the police to a location with a dog unless you really somehow have no other option.
Never call the police unless you are ready for someone to die
Never call the police.
Never call.
Never
Adding police to a situation rarely makes it better
God fucking dammit.
Expected American police behavior.
Easy - Success: A few miles away, there is a room. It is filled with Mickey the Bludgeoner, Nick the Executor and Sally the Sadist. They have just received a call about a dog and are sprinting to their cop cars. The Details on the case don't matter, none of them having heard any of them beyond "there is a dog".
USA! USA!
Why did a negletec dog call the police to shoot something dead?