Stupid Damn Dog

[sbrad]

So today I respond to a call where a lady won't leave her ex-husband's driveway. When we arrive we find out she is at a friend's house down the street and we head down there to talk to her. While we're talking her little Jack Russell Terrier walks up, takes one look at me and decides immediately that he hates my guts and proceeds to "attack" me, if you can call it that. Here's this little dog jumping all over my leg trying to bite me and all I can think is, "you've got to be kidding me". So I pulled out my pepper spray just as she grabbed him and hauled him away. After she gets him subdued, my partner says, "ma'am, if that dog attacks ME I'm shooting it". Well, we talk a little while longer and the little bastard gets loose and remembers he didn't finish me off and starts trying to bite me again. I looked over and saw my partner start to unholster his weapon, and for a second I thought about it myself but quickly realized how fast the little thing was and that I'd probably just put a bunch of holes in her driveway just before I shoot my own foot, so I decided against it. So I pull the pepper spray out again and decide that I'd probably just soak my pants and, since I didn't have a spare pair, decide against that, too. So, rather than bash it's brains in with my ASP, I hauled off and kicked it across the drive way and threatened to call animal control and lock her up. That worked.

God I love this job.

[metallicat]

Are you serious in that you actually kicked the dog?

[oscarmitre]

Or your partner was going to shoot it? A Jack Russell terrier? Look, get some training in how to interact with dogs, it could save you lots of problems with law suits.

[sbrad]

Are you serious in that you actually kicked the dog?

As a heart attack.

[Jynkxxie]

I am not a Police Officer, but I have always made good even with the worst of animals...I agree..she should have had her dog under control...but did you have to kick it? I know, I know, I am not an officer. I did have a 1500 lb. horse lunch and stomp on me once...that I would consider a problem...

[sbrad]

Or your partner was going to shoot it? A Jack Russell terrier? Look, get some training in how to interact with dogs, it could save you lots of problems with law suits.

Really? Where in the hell would I find that?
I interact with dogs just fine. Why this one took such a disliking to me I have no idea.

[ngcsubutterbar]

I am not surprised (and no brad it's not shot at you!). Georgians are vicious about dogs, both protecting them, and what brad did when they don't like them.

[sbrad]

I am not a Police Officer, but I have always made good even with the worst of animals...I agree..she should have had her dog under control...but did you have to kick it? I know, I know, I am not an officer. I did have a 1500 lb. horse lunch and stomp on me once...that I would consider a problem...

No, I didn't have to kick it. I could have let it keep chewing on my leg.

[Jynkxxie]

No, I didn't have to kick it. I could have let it keep chewing on my leg.

Or you could have grabbed it by the scruff of the neck, like their mother do, which produced a hormone that calms them down. You do wear gloves don't you?

[Cobra]

I woulda kicked it to, bring back a nice story. Damn dogs.

[ngcsubutterbar]

Or you could have grabbed it by the scruff of the neck, like their mother do, which produced a hormone that calms them down. You do wear gloves don't you?

oh so that's what it does, hmm thanks didn't know that was the reason, I always thought it was from fear.

[michiganstud]

So I pulled out my pepper spray

PEPPER SPRAY WILL NOT WORK ON DOGS....they do not have the same pores as humans have.

my partner says, "ma'am, if that dog attacks ME I'm shooting it". Well, we talk a little while longer and the little bastard gets loose and remembers he didn't finish me off and starts trying to bite me again. I looked over and saw my partner start to unholster his weapon

I LOVE IT!!!!!!! OMG, that's funny. I do bike patrol and i've been attacked by "fluffy" a couple times. I know pepper spray won't work, so a good THUMP on the nose with my 21" ASP did the trick.

[Jynkxxie]

oh so that's what it does, hmm thanks didn't know that was the reason, I always thought it was from fear.

It is more of a submissive thing, but that is what it does...Usually if you approach any animal with your hands down that helps too.

[oscarmitre]

I wasn't there and I wasn't dealing with the job but I've had plenty of jobs where had to attend a house and a dog was about. Not much difficulty in asking the owner to take the dog around the back or control their dog before going further. Never found it necessary to kick, spray, baton or shoot a dog, even a really big dog. Mind you I thought about shooting an owner once. Drug raid, searched the bathroom (bathroom, where the shower was, not the toilet) and walked in and started the search and heard this ominous growling behind me. Looked around and saw a Rotweiler in the shower alcove. Even leaning against the wall it looked about 6 feet tall, sitting down. I called the owner in (had arrested him before) and told him to take control of the dog. He hesitated, sort of daring me to move on him with the dog there. We had a talk about it. He grabbed and held the dog and took him out of there.

[ngcsubutterbar]

hehe