Post by nightmist on Aug 21, 2015 19:56:18 GMT -5
My daughter gets on well with her landlord. They talk about dogs a lot, and he is helping her tend and train a puppy a well meaning friend gave her as a potential therapy dog for my grandson. She lives upstairs, he lives down.
The gentleman has a few dogs of his own, and has lived in the neighbourhood all his life.
This afternoon he was hanging a door on the shed attached to his garage. His ancient and arthritic boxer was laying out in the sun watching the human do strange human rituals. He noticed something get the dog's attention, and the critter start making his way down the driveway. Then he heard someone say "lay down boy", and then he heard a shot. He ran out of the shed and saw his poor old dog running back as best he could, bleeding heavily. A sheriff's deputy had stopped out front to serve papers to a neighbour, when he saw the dog off a leash he ordered it to lay down, and when it did not comply he shot it.
The deputy's reasoning was that while the dog showed no signs of aggression or the intent to attack, he "wasn't going to wait and give him the chance".
Everybody on the street had their windows open and heard the whole thing. They all came out, and those who had dogs brought them out (leashed).
The deputy had called city animal control. A lot of the neighbours had called friends and relatives.
Things got a little tense, nobody talked to the officers, but everybody glared pretty fiercely. DD was out on the porch on the phone with me at this point, the landlord's father was on the porch talking with her as well. From what I got between the two of them it seems that about half the Thule Lodge, and about a third of the Italian American Gentlemen's Club was in nearby yards giving the cops the hairy eyeball. The animal control officer called for city back up, and the back up called in the county deputy's lieutenant.
The dog had been shot through the body and bled out quickly, he died before the animal control officer arrived.
When the lieutenant got there he immediately (and loudly, I could hear him over the phone) went into CYA mode. Nobody was buying it, they all knew the animal, and that you could darn near hear him creak when he walked. He was a 16 year old boxer, and in such shape that his owner was contemplating having him put down when the weather starts getting cold because the poor old thing had such pain trying to move about in cold weather anymore. To further convince everyone that he was an idiot, the lieutenant insisted that nobody could possibly know whether or not the dog behaved in a threatening manner because nobody was close enough, and hearing what happened was nothing like good enough.
Yes lawsuits are in the offing.
The gentleman has a few dogs of his own, and has lived in the neighbourhood all his life.
This afternoon he was hanging a door on the shed attached to his garage. His ancient and arthritic boxer was laying out in the sun watching the human do strange human rituals. He noticed something get the dog's attention, and the critter start making his way down the driveway. Then he heard someone say "lay down boy", and then he heard a shot. He ran out of the shed and saw his poor old dog running back as best he could, bleeding heavily. A sheriff's deputy had stopped out front to serve papers to a neighbour, when he saw the dog off a leash he ordered it to lay down, and when it did not comply he shot it.
The deputy's reasoning was that while the dog showed no signs of aggression or the intent to attack, he "wasn't going to wait and give him the chance".
Everybody on the street had their windows open and heard the whole thing. They all came out, and those who had dogs brought them out (leashed).
The deputy had called city animal control. A lot of the neighbours had called friends and relatives.
Things got a little tense, nobody talked to the officers, but everybody glared pretty fiercely. DD was out on the porch on the phone with me at this point, the landlord's father was on the porch talking with her as well. From what I got between the two of them it seems that about half the Thule Lodge, and about a third of the Italian American Gentlemen's Club was in nearby yards giving the cops the hairy eyeball. The animal control officer called for city back up, and the back up called in the county deputy's lieutenant.
The dog had been shot through the body and bled out quickly, he died before the animal control officer arrived.
When the lieutenant got there he immediately (and loudly, I could hear him over the phone) went into CYA mode. Nobody was buying it, they all knew the animal, and that you could darn near hear him creak when he walked. He was a 16 year old boxer, and in such shape that his owner was contemplating having him put down when the weather starts getting cold because the poor old thing had such pain trying to move about in cold weather anymore. To further convince everyone that he was an idiot, the lieutenant insisted that nobody could possibly know whether or not the dog behaved in a threatening manner because nobody was close enough, and hearing what happened was nothing like good enough.
Yes lawsuits are in the offing.