RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A retired police dog wandering a neighborhood attacked and dragged a man in Southern California after he gave the animal a bowl of water because he thought it looked thirsty, authorities said Tuesday.
The man’s family members were forced to stab the German shepherd with steak knives when the dog wouldn’t release the victim and dragged him from a front lawn into a street Sunday, John Welsh, spokesman for the Riverside County Animal Services Department, told The Associated Press.
The 20-year-old man was hospitalized with bites to his bicep, leg and ankle. The dog, which served with a Los Angeles County law enforcement agency, was euthanized due to the severity of its injuries.
The dog lapped up the water and then placed its two front paws on the man’s chest, according to Welsh. Then the animal suddenly lunged and latched its jaws on the man’s upper arm.
While the man screamed for help, family members kicked and punched the dog and then ran inside to grab knives when the animal did not relinquish its grip. The dog was stabbed several times.
Welsh said the wounded dog immediately obeyed a responding animal control officer, possibly reacting to his uniform. The dog calmly allowed Officer Will Luna to put a control loop around its neck.
“I walked him to my truck and, with one command, the dog, despite its injuries, leaped into one of my truck compartments,” Luna said in a news release.
A microchip confirmed the dog’s police service but officials declined to say what department it worked for. The dog’s owner was interviewed by animal control officers and a decision on whether to cite the owner was pending, Welsh said.
Retired police dogs generally live with law enforcement officers, often their former handlers, he said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/retired-police-dog-attacks-drags-man-california-180905831.html
“Then the animal suddenly lunged and latched its jaws on the man’s upper arm.”
This is why I’m a cat ‘person’.
Cat’s don’t bark, either.
But enough replies wil make a response disappear of the screen.
How many in such a short time to clear it out of sight?
It makes the reply option disappear, if that’s what you mean. Best you can do at that point is go back to the last reply ‘button’ available.
However, when I was still getting replies to any of my comments sent directly to my e-mail, I ALWAYS had the reply option there.
It takes about 4 replies back-to-back to kill the (continuous) option, if I’m not mistaken. Maybe 5.
Sad story. I definitely prefer cats, but dogs are also cool.
It sucks that dogs like German Shepherds are routinely exploited by the pigs, often getting put into harm’s way so the pigs can be even more cowardly. And this is often over nothing more than drug “crimes.”
By the way, ever notice how each time a police dog gets killed while being exploited, the pigs try to make it seem right by calling the dog a “hero” and saying that he or she “died in the line of duty.” As if a dog has any clue about what he’s doing beyond “obey this pig’s commands,” or that he might end up getting shot or stabbed when he attacks someone according to his training.
“It sucks that dogs like German Shepherds are routinely exploited by the pigs, often getting put into harm’s way so the pigs can be even more cowardly.”
Unchallenged.
IF they could possibly be ‘even more cowardly’ than they already are.
Tough call.
and yet……….. these “dogs” are considered “officers”?????
Well, this dog sure acted like one when he attacked a person for no good reason. Ironically, “training” probably WAS to blame for the attack in this case.
They will probably charge the person who was attacked with “Police Brutality” or even murder….