I found this up and coming facebook page which brings focus to the issue of cops shooting dogs and encourages more accountability for this issue.
I started delivering pizzas the summer after high school. I really enjoyed the job. I liked the interactions with different types of people and I loved being out and about, especially late at night. We were open until 3 in the morning 7 days a week. I worked in a college town suburb near Milwaukee.
I worked at the pizza place until I finished college. 4 years 7 months and 4 days to be exact. On one side of our delivery area were houses worth anywhere from $400k to several million dollars. Many of those houses were spread out and rather rural. On the other side of town were thousands of closely packed working class houses, apartment complexes, and 2 college campuses.
One of my favorite aspects of the job was the dogs. Dogs are cool. I encountered dogs of all types. Dogs are quite intrigued by a pizza guy.
I wore black boots, black pants, black hat, we carried a black pizza bag, with a red shirt, often times covered by my gray hooded sweatshirt.
In certain, “old town” areas, parking was limited. I would often park in a location close and search for the actual address, with my pizza and two liter of Coke in hand, and my flashlight lit. On certain blocks and in certain apartment complexes I would inevitably run into leashed dogs, occasional strays, and in the rural areas, dogs off leash which would come out of the shadows from behind me and great me with a bark or even a nudge to my leg from behind.
I usually worked Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights from 5pm-3:30am. I conservatively encountered dogs on 2 out of 10 deliveries and around 30 deliveries per night. That puts me at about 4,200 dog encounters.
I did occasionally have to stand my ground. I’ve never been bit and I’ve never shot a dog.
Perhaps I’m just really lucky.
JF
Of course, you’ve never shot a dog. You’re not a wimpy cop.
I delivered papers when I was 11 and 12 and was once attacked by three German shepherds at one time. I got a couple of bites, but I survived. The chihuahua we had at the time was worse: her teeth were small and pointy, and she had a really bad attitude. I got bit by her probably half a dozen times over her lifetime. In spite of her crankiness, we never had to shoot her. She died of old age. Our scottish terrier got me once or twice, too. Then the neighbor’s basset bit my ankle when I turned my back, the little turd. But I didn’t shoot her: I just put on a band-aid. My son’s bull terrier nipped me, the other day, but that was my fault: I grabbed her chew toy at the same place she grabbed it, at the same time. Fortunately, she let go: no blood drawn, no shots fired.
Probably my worst interaction with an animal was with my son’s siamese cat. Even with his front claws removed, that little shit shredded my arms with his back claws when I was trying to show him the kitty litter box when he came to stay with us. Psychotic little bastard. Oi, I had blood running down my arms from that. Looked like a horror movie. Still, I didn’t have to shoot him. Wanted to, but didn’t.
In short, cops are pussies.
Wow either you really just enjoy the abuse or need to come to the conclusion that animals just do not like you Aaron. I will however give you credit for letting the ‘lil hua hua dog make it to old age. Never once have I meet a friendly chihuahua. Mean nasty and only good for one thing…field goals. Animals are without a doubt one of my great loves. I have a Corgi, a Shepard, 2 cats and a fat(I mean FAT)ass ferret. Not a one of them would hurt an officer or anyone…My ferret might try to steal something from them but not hurt them. I am not really sure how I would handle watching an officer gunning down one of my critters. Probably have to restrain my wife first an foremost before she made it to the gun safe.
Cops rate in bravery behind pizza delivery guys, Avon Ladies, meter readers, Girl Scouts and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
All of them regularly come up to houses and are exposed to dogs. I have not heard of a single case of one of them shooting a dog.
But then again, there is no carved in stone mantra “Girl Scout Safety”.
I had never beat a raccoon, muskrat or beaver to death until I started running trap lines. Of course you get the occassional cat and possum, but you cut them for bait.
sorry for all the gay ass comments i have been leaving. i have no life so i troll around all day long
Dr Krankenstein— how is Aron abusive? Nothing in his comment suggested any type of abuse you f*cking moron. God some people are F*cking stupid, you waste of skin.
You misread, Don: He’s saying that I enjoy the abuse I get from animals. Not the other way around.
As for Doc, animals are like people: some you get along with, some you don’t.
Lot easier to just keep the dogs restrained or trained. Kids get mauled everyday by dogs that are beloved family pets.
@t: STFU. Police shoot dogs on leashes and those restrained by those long animal control poles. I’m sure they’d rather shoot people, but dogs will do in a pinch. Admit it: you’re a pussy. A dog bite is hardly anything, but because you’re a pussy, you shoot the dog. Pussy.
Uh oh…another Internet warrior!
Yes I shot 2 of my 2 neighbors Dogs, Why 1 he Dumped on my grass every morning, I ask the owner to stop him from doing it and he just told me to F**K off so one Morning I shot the damn dog Yes In the ass. and my 2 little kids could play in the yard with out dog shit on them,
# 2 dog I was Giving my little Son a ride around the block on my HARLEY and this shepherd run out into the street and tried to bite my son’s leg, I blocked it with my leg it cost me 6 stitches on my leg, and I had a new pair of Levi’s on, and It ripped a hole in them, I asked the Owner of the dog to buy me a new pair of Levi’s and not weary about the Doctor bill. One more time I was told to F**k off. So one night I want to his house walked up to his fence his dog came over barking at me, I stuck a Shotgun Barrel in Dog’s Mouth and shot all of his teeth out and the back of his head. And Yes, I would do it again any time.
I shot 2 of my 2 neighbors Dogs, Why he Dumped on my grass every morning, I ask the owner to stop him from doing it and he told me to F**K off, one Morning I shot the damn dog In the ass. and my 2 little kids could play in the yard with out dog crap on them,
# 2 dog I was Giving my little Son a ride around the block on my HARLEY and this shepherd run out into the street and tried to bite my son’s leg, I blocked it with my leg it cost me 6 stitches on my leg, and I had a new pair of Levi’s on, It ripped a hole in them, I asked the Owner of the dog to buy me a new pair of Levi’s and not weary about the Doctor bill. One more time I was told to F**k off. One night I want to his house walked up to his fence his dog came over barking, I stuck a Shotgun Barrel in His Mouth and shot all of his teeth out. And Yes, I would do it again any time.
HOW ABOUT YOU GETTING FUCKED, MODERATION ON THAT
Tell that to all the people seriously injured and killed every year by those harmless pets. Did you not see the pit bull attack in the national news last week? You know, the one where grandma and her young grand daughter where walking down a city sidewalk when another careless pet owner was walking his beloved and harmless pet down the other side of the street, not on a leash. When said sweet puppy saw the little girl it thought of her as prey and itran across the street and bbegan to maul her. Sweet puppy. Hopefully it was destroyed and the owner was made to watch. Mauled little girl wins over aggressivendog every time. Get your head out of your butt, its making your breath stink.
Sorry “t”, you fail. Too many stories about cops shooting black labs, or arthritic old dogs hobbling around, or dogs in cages, or dogs in their own yards that cops are mistakenly in.
Go over to Reason magazine online for weekly pootch snuffing by team blue. Rarely is it done to save a kid. It is usually for the over riding cop concern, “officer safety (TM).
Are you braver than a Girl Scout, “t”? Your team as a whole isn’t.
T. always fails, surprising he hasn’t given up yet. He isn’t anything without a gun and a doughnut in his hand.
So says the man in the rear with the gear.
I’m not on Team “Pup Assassin”. You might want to have a Joint Police – Avon Lady Taskforce. They apparently also have the ability to interact with, but not kill, dogs.
If all else fails, try the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They also deal with hostile people without choking them to death. Might help.
t’s a pussy. A sub-average-intelligent pussy who hasn’t learned to tune his expectations to that of the dog’s so that he can interact with a dog without having to shoot it. Nope, t’s a fuckin’ caveman with a gun.
Happy Joe: go fuck yourself, you douchebag. You shoot dogs for doing what dogs do, instead of the owners that have responsibility. Fucking coward. Why don’t you walk up to the owner’s house and shoot him? Because you’re a coward, that’s why.
Wow holy shit Don….Angry much man? Reading Comprehension I take it was not some thing you aced in elementary school. I know kindergarten can be rough, keep trying man you will get it.