NEWS AND COMMENT: The basics in this Fox News story are pretty straightforward. Three police officers in Prince George’s County, Maryland, USA, entered an apartment unlawfully because they had failed to obtain a warrant where they shot a dog twice and tasered the dog. The dog was fatally harmed and euthanised. The three police …
NEWS AND VIEWS-LORAIN, OHIO, USA: I have watched the relevant section of this viral video currently being extensively reported by the news media and I have come to the inevitable conclusion that the Ohio police department’s vetting procedure when employing new police officers is inadequate. There is no question in my mind that the …
Leo and Titan are a couple of hybrid dogs: Pitbull/bulldog-mix. They are described as: “Big babies.” That comment by the owners (the Lutters) is to be expected by the way. We see this sort of statement all the time from owners of aggressive dogs but I am not saying that these dogs are inherently …
A story has emerged from the online press which once again reminds me that there may be a problem in some parts of the USA with respect to the attitude of police officers towards cats and dogs. It seems that they find them hazardous or dangerous when they are not and because of this, …
A reserve police officer who has been on the Konawa, Oklahoma Police Force for about a fortnight has considered resigning having heard two fellow police officers bragging about killing stray dogs. Officer Jermaine Down said a fellow officer in a police car with a small white dog told him that the dog was about to …
This is a petition on the Causes website. The link is at the base of the page. Elisa has written a lot on this subject on the Examiner website. Between cats and dogs, dogs are far more frequently killed by cops based on what I read but cats get a fair share of cop …
I feel compelled to write this because of a convergence of two different sources of news. In the newspapers, all of us, worldwide, are noticing the behaviour of the police in America and I would like to set this against articles written by Elisa in which she writes about the hundreds of dogs which a …
Some police officers believe it is the most humane thing you can do, to place an injured animal at the target end of a firing range and to use him/her for target practice. It sounds disgusting and astonishing but that apparently is what some coppers who are part of the Merced police actually believe. …
