Deputy Killed Family's Dog, Owners Want to Know Why - WCJB TV-20

they said in the interview that the pitbull-MIX attacked the K-9 and held it to the ground and bit it's neck, yet the K-9 was not taken to the vet afterwards and is "doing just fine"?

 

That sucks! Things aren't adding up in the story though, like the SO not taking the K9 to the vet afterwards to at least get him checked out..? That doesn't make sense if a fight between the 2 dogs actually happened.

A deputy shot a dog here where I live because a woman, with know mental illness, claimed that the dog had bit her. She had also called the cops out a few times before because the dog occasionally got lose and ran around the neighborhood, but the dog never really bothered anyone or any other dogs. In the end, the deputy chained the dog up in the backyard to a post and shot him with his patrol carbine(with my house in the background). The worst part was kids were just getting off the bus from school when he did this. The dog lived and the cop got fired, I mean resigned

 

When is the media truely 100% truthful? What you hear is the "distraught" family who lost their pet. K-9 officers are just that, officers. They had every right to shoot it. What the media portrays and what really happens are two totally different things.
Just like when a friend lost a load of hay to a trailer fire, for 100 yds on a very rural road, and when the media reported it it was " loads of burning hay scattered for miles, with homes near by". Not so much

 

i don't think you know much about a pit bull, but when one latches down on another dogs neck it is going to kill the dog. there is going to be puncture wounds, probably a bone or trachea crushed..... yet a K-9 officer gets attacked, thrown to the ground and bitten on the neck, as the officer tells his side of the story, and the K-9 officer / dog is fine and didn't go to the vet? i doubt it was ever touched by the other dog. almost all officers are scared of pits unless they have owned one. sounds like a trigger happy officer that should be glad that the dog wasn't a kid running through the woods.

I'm not picking apart what the media portrayed, i am picking apart what the officer stated on tape.....

 

My parents owned pit bulls. One decided that it was going to stop playing fetch, run up a flight of stairs on the deck, bite my 3 yr old and then turn its attention to their other dog, a border collie. Right on the side of its neck with the collie gasping for air and half screaming. It wasn't even a year old and latched on so hard three adults couldn't get it immediately off. Once it did, after 3 or 4 minutes, we seperated the dogs cleaned up the collie and went on with life. Pit bull died shortly afterwards. There was no need for the collie to go to the vet even with puncture wounds and bleeding.
So yes, after that experience and working for the local animal shelter for 18 years, I do know something about Pit Bulls.

 

ok, so you aren't seeing the forest for the trees here.

you admit that it took 3 adults to take a pit off another dog, and the collie had puncture wounds and was bleeding.

the police departments take better care of their K-9 dogs than most people take care of their kids. IF it sneezes the wrong way they go to the vet, let alone if it gets bit by another dog, why not even to get a rabies check...... it is like workman's comp, once something supposedly happens you need a paperwork trail to back you up, not a single man's story.....

i believe this cop is full of it and lying out his **** to cover his job..... that is my opinion and noone can change my mind about it.....

 

Good job being objective and not letting emotions influence your opinion.

 

Thank you.....

 

"A Pit mix" Probably dosn't have an ounce of pit blood in it all! Whenever there is anything about some sort of dog attack, it's immediately blamed on a Pitbull! I own a pit myself, and so do many of my friends. I trust every one of these dogs completely. If anyone knows anything about Pits, true Pits very very rarely are ever aggresive towards humans, canine aggression on the otherhand is a somewhat common trait. When these dog were bred for fighting, quite a long time ago, any human aggression was not tolerated by the breaders. It would be nice if people would do a little reserach before flappin their jiblets, I think that people see the deffined/aggressive apperence and are immediatly affraid of them, I my experience, these are deffinately some of the most gentle, compasionate, well behaved dogs that I have ever been around.

 

I agree with jpipes too often what the news calls a pit-mix isn't a pit. Any breed can be aggressive I know my blue heeled was meaner than a pit my roommate had.

Also im not supporting or bashing the cop for what he did. However if he was searching for a fugitive then he might have had his service weapon drawn and did not think to go to non lethal to save his k9 partner.