Puppycide

Well, not in this instance, but I'm getting tired of reading more and more stories of Cops shooting dogs when they are raiding the wrong house, or when the dogs really don't pose a dangerous risk.

This is agonizing to watch:

I support the police, but they need to evaluate thier training and adjust it to find better ways to deal with family pets.

- Ohio family returns home to find cops tased, then shot and killed their five pound Chihuahua mix after it escaped from the back yard.

- Juvenile chased by cops runs into friend’s house to escape. Cops enter home, shoot family’s pet Akita 13 times.

- Police in West Virginia shoot a dog properly on its leashed after it got into a fight with a police K9 dog that was untethered.

- Police in Howard County, Maryland conducted a nighttime, no-knock raid on the home of Mike Hasenei, whom they apparently suspected of stealing items from two police cars burglarized last month. They found nothing, but they did shoot and kill Hasenei’s Australian cattle dog. The police say the no-knock raid and tactical entry were necessary because Hasenei is a (legal) gun-owner.

- Garland, Texas police officer responds to a noise complaint. Instead of knocking on the front door, he walks around to the back of the house. There, he claims the leashed dog, while in its own yard, “attacked” him, so he shot and killed it. The police department now says the officer wasn’t aware that the dog was on a leash.

- This one was 10 months old and leashed when the officer apparently entered the wrong backyard, then shot and killed it.

- Police serving a search warrant in Haltom City, Texas say an officer had no choice but to shoot and kill an “aggressive”–wait for it–Jack Russell terrier.

- Georgia police officer responds to false security alarm, shoots and kills family’s black lab in the backyard.

And the stories go on and on...