I said he wasn’t a real man and needed to go learn to train, care for and work with farm and ranch animals. Better still, as a beginner he needs to “pick” (or clean out) stalls for a few months, carrying horse shit out of their way so it doesn’t ruin their hooves.
So is there a contrasting example of how real American men behave around good dogs?
This is a sickening video. For heaven’s sake – it’s a golden retriever. It’s a golden! How is that guy in any danger? Have you ever been around goldens before? That dog was desperate to make a new friend, that’s all.
That idiot cop deserved all of the opprobrium he got, and much more.
*WARNING* – a dog gets shot in this video
Ohio cop shoots harmless golden retriever with its tail waging then continues shooting the dog as it flees the violent officer and Dixie (the dog) ultimately dies.
I just don’t know what to say any more. Perhaps people will start to wise up rather than the usual, silly, mistaken “back the blue” mantra we hear everywhere. Heroes of the community.
I have tried so hard to explain to those who would listen that you simply cannot keep up the same things and have any community respect at all. Universal hatred of you and what you do will be dangerous for you, making you even more paranoid and mentally unstable than you currently are.
I’ve given suggestions to the police before and then even again. Work as a hired hand on a farm or ranch, or even better, be a volunteer to some farmer or rancher who needs the help. Learn to bale hay; lean to be a Farrier; learn to doctor animals; learn to train dogs; learn to care for animals.
But it seems that they hire the lowest IQ, least mentally stable, and most dangerous to mankind and beasts they can find. As long as this is the case, they will only increase community hatred for themselves.
Again I say, you’re never in more danger than when the police are around. Get away from them as quickly as possible – you, your family and your beasts. There is never a situation so bad and so dire that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.
As for me, I know how to handle dogs, and I would have been buddies with that dog in less than a second. I’m not a dog handler (although I could be), I’m just a normal American male. Cops apparently are not.
Trish Gallup was walking her three dogs Friday morning in Smyrna when one of them, Radar, just started running.
She told Channel 2 Action News that a pair of coyotes took three bites out of Radar, leaving Boomer and Tracker unharmed. Pictures showed the missing tufts of hair on Radar, an 85-pound Labrador.
A picture of a coyote on the path at the River Line Soccer Park on Oakdale Road was posted on Nextdoor, reports Channel 2, and many people responded saying they have also seen them around.
Wildlife experts told Channel 2 Action News that an attack on a large dog like Radar is unusual.
What isn’t unusual is coyotes in “transition areas” — think treelines or areas where cut grass fades into other types of vegetation.
Dr. Tina Johannsen with Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources told Channel 2 that they have received 650 calls into their regional offices about coyotes this year, which is a standard amount.
“They’re just going from point A to point B looking for something to eat,” Johannsen said.
Aren’t we all.
Johannsen recommended keeping cats and small dogs fenced in or on a leash.
She also wanted to remind folks that it’s legal and encouraged to kill the creatures.
For a second year, the “Georgia Coyote Challenge” is in effect. Those who kill the most between March and August could get a lifetime hunting license.
That’s a big dog (in the video) and yet they still attacked him. And note that what was once a lone predator is now roaming in packs. Again I say, these aren’t Coyotes – they are Coywolves. Killing them is the right way to handle them.
But there is this warning.
Animal advocates groups criticized the “challenge” by saying it doesn’t work and is inhumane.
Killing them doesn’t decrease the numbers, and besides that, even if it did, we shouldn’t do it. Or something.
Ethologist Dr.Valerius Geist in British Columbia is the former program director of Environmental Sciences at U. Calgary, and he is known world-wide for his studies and writings about large game animals. Val recently sent me an e-mail about something that hunters should be aware of.
What prompted Val’s e-mail is that he had just received a newspaper article from Germany http://wolfeducationinternational.com/wolfe-am-hochstand-auf-der-lauer-wolfe-at-the-high-stand-in-wait/ reporting that German researchers, analyzing photographs of traps, animal feces, tracks, and other traces, found 60 wolf packs are now living across the country,13 more packs than a year ago. Overall, there are now between 150-160 adult wolves in Germany.
In Val’s research on wolves and their relationship with people, which I described in an earlier article, http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/features/230658 he found that in countries where most people don’t hunt with guns or own them – Siberia, India, Kazakhstan, etc.– wolves are more likely to attack people. Whereas in North America, where firearms ownership is greater, when people fire shots toward wolves, typically they keep their distance.
The German article, however, reports something different.
German hunters are reporting that when they’re out in the woods, and they shoot a red deer, fallow deer, roe deer or wild boar, wolves immediately show up. It’s common knowledge that predators like wolves, coyotes, and bears will feed on the remains of game animals. However, in Germany the wolves don’t seem to want to wait until the downed animals have been dressed, they aggressively approach the carcass and the hunters.
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According to Val, “This is the first report I have ever heard about wolves being drawn to hunter’s gunshots. However, that bears can and do attack hunters is definitely known in North America.” A number of those we contacted agree.
These are some of the responses.
Jim Low, a retired Alaskan game warden, says, “A gunshot on Kodiak Island attracts bears. Many deer hunters have killed deer on Kodiak Island only to have a Kodiak brown bear show up and want to dine on venison.”
Joe Hosmer, former Pres. of the SCI Foundation, agrees. Joe says: “I have seen this black tail hunting on Kodiak Island. When a deer is shot the bears come running! The hunter needs to give up the deer and move on,” unless you also have a bear license.
Be careful out there. A good dog will give his or her life for you. And I’ll give mine for my dog. After all, a man can’t live forever, and it matters how he dies.
Around these parts, a Coywolf doesn’t howl. When I’ve been out with my dog at times, I just see their eyes. They don’t announce their presence. That’s why I carry a gun with me wherever I go. I intend to make sure neither of us has to give our lives for the other. I think General Patton had something or other to say about that.
GROTON, N.H. — New Hampshire’s Fish and Game Department says a 71-year-old woman suffered serious head injuries from an encounter with a bear in her home.
The department says the bear somehow got inside the woman’s home about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday in Groton, a rural community in the central part of the state. The woman, who uses a wheelchair, was hospitalized. Authorities haven’t been able to talk to her yet.
WMUR-TV reports evidence suggest the bear was trapped in the kitchen area before its encounter with the woman. The bear managed to get out of the home afterward.
Fish and Game officers said they are searching for the bear. They are concerned the bear may have rabies.
The moral of the story is that you’re not safe anywhere, and not just from two-legged threats. How close do you have a gun in the house?
The loyal pup risked his snout to protect his owner from being bitten by a rattlesnake.
Paula Godwin, from Anthem, Arizona, was on a hike Friday morning when she almost stepped on the dangerous viper, she wrote in a Facebook post.
But Todd swooped in and saved her, she said.
“He jumped right in front of my leg where I surely would have been bit,” she wrote.
Todd, who is less than a year old, tackled the rattlesnake but ended up getting bitten on the nose.
I’m shocked that this dog is alive, but since my Heidi has been bitten by a Copperhead I know that dogs do better with snake bites than humans. Still, this is a rattlesnake.
A Georgia woman screamed in fright as a bear climbed through an open window and into her minivan, tore up a child seat and ate her lunch.
“A bear beat me to my lunch today and is now hanging out in my van for over an hour and I have set the alarm off multiple times!” Carrie Watts posted on Facebook with her video of the bear.
“I panicked. I started screaming,” she told WSB-TV.
She set her minivan’s alarm off multiple times to no avail, Watts posted on Facebook. The bear stayed in the vehicle for an hour before leaving, she posted.
I don’t think a car alarm is going to do the trick dear. In other news of Coywolves, they are where you might least expect them.
A coyote has been terrorizing two East Bay neighborhoods, killing at least four dogs and injuring several others in people’s backyards in the past month.
One of the attacks happened last week in Danville when a coyote leaped a six-foot high fence of a home and went after two dogs who lived there. Though the dogs survived, other pets were not so fortunate.
Nine-year-old Lucy is recovering from surgery after a coyote attacked her in her own Alamo backyard on July 6. Kent Molinaro says he was in shock when he looked out the window and saw his Jack Russell Terrier.
“I see a coyote with Lucy in his mouth,” Molinaro said.
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“All of a sudden he made a funny bark and I saw one of the two dogs being carried to the back fence of the yard,” said Danville resident Dave Bruce.
As the dog was being attacked, another pet nipped at the coyote until he dropped him.
Police in Burlington, Massachusetts, are reminding residents to be vigilant after a coyote possibly attacked a dog on Thursday night.
Authorities said a Winn Street resident reported that a wild animal, potentially a coyote, came into her backyard at about 8 p.m. and grabbed her 9 pound Maltese, pulling it into the woods.
Responding officers searched the perimeter of the woods but were unable to locate the dog.
“This was a very unfortunate situation where a resident lost her beloved pet,” Burlington Police Chief Michael Kent said.
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To prevent those attacks, police recommend the following tips:
Keep pets on leashes at all times if outdoors
Do not approach, feed, pet, or try to interact with wildlife
Don’t hesitate to scare or threaten wild animals with loud noises or bright lights
Hey, does a .45 ACP count as a loud noise?
I guess the moral of the story is that a bear just doesn’t give a shit about anything. A Coywolf, only a little bit.
A 16-year-old boy says his dog made all the difference when armed intruders busted into his house on Wednesday. It happened just after noon, in the 1400 block of South 234th Street in Des Moines.
Javier Mercado was home alone with his German Shepherd, Rex. He gives his loyal companion all the credit for saving his life.
“I feel like if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be here today telling you this story,” said Mercado.
He says around noon, he heard a noise and looked out a window. He saw a car he did not recognize.
“I heard the sliding door break, and it is made out of just glass so it shattered really loud,” said Mercado. “My dog ran downstairs, and it just started barking and barking. I heard one guy scream, ‘the dog bit me, get the dog.'”
Javier grabbed his cell phone, hid in a closet, and called 911.
“I could hear my dog, like, really close to me in the bathroom with me, just barking. And the man comes upstairs,” said Mercado. “I heard one gunshot and several after that, and my dog just cried after every shot that hit him.”
He wanted to rush to Rex’s side, but the dispatcher told him not to.
“I thought he was dead for sure. I broke down,” said Mercado.
By the time police officers arrived, the intruders were gone. Mercado spent nearly an hour hiding in a closet before it was safe to come out.
Then he received a call telling him Rex was still alive. His dog had been taken to BluePearl, an emergency pet hospital, in Renton. Rex had gunshot wounds in his neck and hind legs that required surgery.
For Mercado, the relief that his dog even survived was followed by the reality that his family does not have the money to pay for Rex’s medical bills.
“I was worried, my parents were worried. My dad said he was going to start working every Saturday, saving up,” said Mercado.
But in a short amount of time family, friends and the community have come through with a fundraiser for Rex. A GoFundMe page was started, and already thousands of dollars have been raised.
Mercado is so grateful. All of his focus right now is on his German Shepherd.
“That he just pulls through everything and comes home,” said Mercado.
That’s his hope for Rex, now hailed the “Hero Dog.”
I have a very big, very soft spot in my heart for dogs. The first time I read this article my initial thought was, “Let me tell you something boy, don’t you ever hide in a closet while a faithful dog takes the fall for you. I’ll step in front of my dog to keep her from being shot. You’d better go get yourself a gun right now.”
But then I re-read the article, and he is a teen. He can’t have a gun. The dog is a hero. Dogs are faithful. Got dogs?
CENTRAL TEXAS — A Killeen woman has shared disturbing video of an attempted burglary in an effort to warn other residents to be on alert and to keep the would-be thieves from targeting anyone else.
The footage was captured on a Vivint home security system around 1:08 a.m. Nov. 18 in the 2200 block of Fieldstone Drive off of Willow Spring Road in Killeen.
The victim said she heard glass break toward the front of her house. When she went into her living room, she realize someone had broken her window. So, she called 911.
While the woman was on the phone with 911, a guy in a jersey knocked on her door and asked if she was okay. But, the woman claimed the male in the jersey was only a distraction to allow the other guys to approach with guns.
She said the trio was going to rob her but saw she had four dogs and ran away.
When police arrived, officers said they found the guy in the jersey in front of the house claiming to be a concerned neighbor. As the victim suspected, police later determined he was involved, so they arrested him. Investigators also located two suspicious vehicles nearby. They determined the occupants in the vehicles were the other suspects in the incident and arrested the occupants in both.
In total, four adults were arrested and one juvenile was taken into custody. All five were charged with burglary of a habitation. The four adults were identified as Gjavion Smith-Williams, 17, Davieon Reed, 22, Jamal Marbury Jr., 18, and Daquan Lavant, 18.
It brought a smile to my face to see the hoodlums run away in that video.
Dog walker Annette Poitras spent more than two days lost in the backcountry of Eagle Mountain in Coquitlam with three dogs.
They were all rescued alive and safe Wednesday afternoon, and now more details are coming to light about how they survived the rain and the elements.
Marcel, Annette’s husband, told Global News on Thursday that the dogs helped his wife stay alive.
“One of them was cuddling [her] and one of them was on guard and the other one was looking for food,” he said.
Annette was with a collie named Chloe, a boxer named Roxy and a puggle named Bubba. They didn’t leave her side, even though one of them initially wandered off when Annette fell and hurt herself.
But luckily, that dog came back and then all four of them stayed together until they were rescued.
Despite having no water or food, it appears the group took care of each other as best they could.
“[At] one point, the last night — when it was torrential rain — the short-haired boxer, [Roxy], was cold, so [Annette] took off one of her rain jackets to put over the boxer,” said Marcel. “To keep it warm.”
Annette also learned a survival tip from the dogs.
“She happened to notice one of the dogs was digging a hole to sleep in,” explained Marcel. “[The undergrowth], it’s very spongy, it soaks up a lot of water. So she started sweeping away all the brush and everything to get down into the dirt and kind of made herself a little well to sleep in. She learned from the dogs.”
I don’t think it was “lucky” that the one dog came back to her, but then, I don’t believe in luck or chance. I doubt that the dog who hunted for food came back with anything for her that could be eaten unprepared, but I also doubt that she had much of a chance for survival without the dogs.
Got dogs? If you want companionship, faithful, loyal and loved family members, and committed partners for your protection, you can’t do any better than dogs.
On Nov. 24 2012, three Commerce City Police officers responded to reports of a “loose, vicious dog.” Police said Chloe, a 3-year-old dog, aggressively ran toward the officers. During the encounter, Officer Robert Price, shot and killed the dog.
The dog was first shocked with a stun gun and then shot multiple times. A neighbor took cellphone video of Chloe’s death, which was a key piece of evidence in the case.
Price was found not guilty of animal cruelty charges in 2013.
The Animal Law Center says the $262,000 settlement is one of the largest of its kind.
Chloe’s owner, Gary Branson, was out of town when she was shot.
Okay, I have several comments after reading this, and after watching that horrible video in full. First, dog owners should make arrangements for the dog at all times. They are part of the family. A loose dog when you’re out of town is unacceptable and irresponsible.
That said, the police are obviously guilty of animal cruelty and the one doing the shooting should have gone to prison just like Michael Vick.
The officer in the very first part of the video is an overblown, bloated fat ass, and doesn’t need to be on the police force anywhere. The female officer is worthless, and doesn’t understand how to handle the dog. As I’ve said before, “Voice commands are critical, and voice inflection, tonality and timbre (or tone color) make or break your communications with the animal. Learn it. Practice it. Do it. Take time with it, and if you live in a dense urban area where you cannot work with farm animals, travel on the weekends to a place where you can, or move permanently. It’s that important.”
Within five minutes, I would have been petting Chloe and she would have been laying on her back with me scratching her belly. The officers are hicks and goobers. They know nothing. They are worthless.
Just as bad as it pertains to future engagements, the final officer who shot Chloe – Robert Price – used his handgun with one hand, the other hand flailing wildly behind him. No kidding. Watch the video. No, no, Robert. Do it this way.
What the hell are they teaching these boys in Colorado? Are they teaching them anything at all? My God, I would hate to meet up with these morons, any one of them. To me, they seem dangerous in their ignorance. The dog was no danger. The only danger was because of the idiot cops that day. I hope all the cops in the Commerce City Police Department aren’t that stupid.
A final word about the settlement. I hate it when the city suffers the financial harm for malicious acts of their cowardly police officers, but maybe with enough huge settlements of this sort, cities will begin to hire people who can think.
Robert Price should go to prison, and he certainly shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun. How do you feel about costing your city $262K, Robert? Pretty bad? You should. How do you feel about killing Chloe, Robert? Pretty bad? You should.
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