Family Dog Shot By Police

Then you must have a kinder heart toward police officers than I do...I mean come on Lily, all too many police are trigger happy...you hear this time and time again about incidents where police go haywire and shoot down people too...and not just once but shoot the person with something like 50 rounds of bullets--and always a case of mistaken identity My heart goes out to those people who were being treated like crap to begin with and falsely arrested,then had to witness their beloved pet murdered like that by an a$$hole, trigger happy moroon ...I hope they bring full charges against him

i think cops are power hungry and they use any excuse they can to justify them being in the right i am sorry for your loss i have 5 cats and i would be mortified if that happened to mine sometimes cops are so over zealous that they carry their power to far its a rush to be in charge. i think they are unjustified killing some one elses pet especially if it poses no threat to any 1 it is not the fault of some ones pet if they are neglectful but to invade some one elses property and do it is unexcusable i have seen terrible injustices done towards all animals no animal asks for the conditions they have to endure the police were at fault and they should be fired or seek some kind of emotional help

It was sad to see and hear about the family dog being shot and killed by a police officer. I feel bad for the dog and the family that owned it. I never like to hear anything happen to dogs or to any animal. Hopefully the officer will be punished for his actions. Not all cops are bad or dirty but there are some out there for sure. What did the dog do to deserve to be shot and killed? If the dog had been attacking the officer and he was defending himself that would be one thing but that was not the case here and he should not have shot the dog.

That is why they are called pigs. I bet he got off on it too. Hopefully there were not any kids around. I know a guy whose father was shot by a cop in front of him when he was a child. Way to go pig.

I just viewed the video, and all I can say is I hope the cops have a goooood lawyer! It's right there on the video that they went way overboard on this call as it was, handcuffing the family, etc. They were told that the dog was in the car and to close the door, and didn't. There are far more cases where a police officer has to make that decision because of an aggressive pet, but this clearly was not the case. They did not even attempt to subdue the pet in any fashion. I also respect officers as I live with one, and completely understand that in some cases excessive force is truly needed.

This is terriable.Police officers now days are too trigger happy, there was no earthly reason to shoot this animal.Not only are they killing innocent animals, they are also killing young children in the state that I live,I am having less and less respect for them each and every day.

that's really sad... even though i'm not really an animal lover, but still i never think that killing an animal for no apparent reason is right... it is not justified at all and i really pity the family that lost the dog... i hope the police got the just punishment for his behaviour...

I had much the same type of situation here but instead of a family dog it was a kangaroo that i has reared from a baby joey .Gus was one day away from being released when some low life opened the back gate to his yard .It was the middle of summer here and the kangaroos lick their fromt hands as a way of keeping cool .Well i was informed by the vet (i`m a wildlife carer registered )that a police officer had shot him because he thought it was injured . I rang the local police station and spoke to the offending officer ( because it was an offence what he has done ) he was new to town i then informed him as to why he was licking his hands and that all native animals are protected and that he just can`t go and shoot one because of what he thinks .I then told him that he must infuture contact the local animal group and that we will take care of all native animals not him . I still think of this poor kangaroo he was just so close to being released and had endures just so much already and to thing he was so close to being set free as nature intended

This is so sad and it made me cry I could not see any danger at all there why did he shoot that Dog, the Dog was full of life but not in an aggressive Manner I love Animals and I have a little Dog and if that ever happened to him I would not know what I would My thoughts are with the owners

I just watched the video with my family, and it prompted a rather interesting discussion. "If pitbull comes bounding towards you, you just going to stand there?" to paraphrase one, while another replied that the dog was only part pitbull, and I added that not all pitbulls are agressive, it's how they were trained. Also, dogs are energetic playul animals, and though I really am not a fan of dogs, I do know the difference between one that is wanting to play, and one that is wanting to attack.

That is truly awful and uncalled for. I can't imagine something like that happening. What did the poor pup do to deserve this treatment? I hope they punish him in some manner. I also agree with the person who said the cops aren't trained to deal with animals. Maybe this will show the people in charge that the police need more and better training before being released upon the unsuspecting and trusting population.

that video is the most saddest thing i have ever seen. i was getting teary eyed as i was watching it. i have 3 dogs and would hate if anything like that happened to them. i would file a damn law suit to teach the copper a lesson. just because some people see a dog as 'just a dog', i think there are more people out there that see them as family. i for one, am one of them. that poor poor puppy dog.