Police Dog Dies in Car

[Liberalynn]

After Being Left for Four Hours
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/08/police-dog-dies-hot-car/16937885/

RIP Buddy!

If this was an average citizen they would be charged with Animal Cruelty no question, and so should this officer no matter how "sorry" he is, or what his excuses are.

Poor dog!

[shenmue]

1. Poor feller

Up in Dog Heaven now.

[Liberalynn]

10. Hopefully he is at Peace Now!

[SmittynMo]

2. It's simple

Cuz the rules/laws do not apply to them. It's kinda like being a republicant.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Cops are beyond the reach of the law.

[Liberalynn]

11. Exactly

I hope the SPCA will do the right thing and charge him in the end. It should have already been done.

[PumpkinAle]

3. A police dog and his handler

bond, right from the start, they are true partners, or should be. There is absolutely no excuse for this - None!

[Duppers]

9. absolutely!!

[Liberalynn]

12. I agree.

A professor once made a joke about late term papers: " The only excuse is death and it had better be your own." In these types of cases where people leave their children and their pet partners in a car on a hot day, and they suffer illness or death as a result, that should be the only excuse acceptable, NO JOKE!

I am hoping the SPCA will file charges.

[Historic NY]

4. Absent minded, perhaps the town should have had kennels

to put the dogs when not on actual duty, they don't belong in a car sitting in a parking lots for hours. Our local dept. keeps the dogs in a inside kennel in the securty garage which is air conditioned or heated as need be.

[Liberalynn]

13. That's a good idea!

The dog's risk their lives to serve their human partners, this is the least that should be done for them in return.

[hollysmom]

5. which makes me wonder about intelligence tests now used to select police -

no problem with them being angry enough to pull guns on children a kill dogs in yards, now they don't have sense to not leave a dog locked in a car but supposed to arrest people for the same thing?

[Duppers]

8. +1000

[Liberalynn]

14. Any test for them

should include a psychiatric evaluation and not just when they apply but at several times throughout their careers.

[AtomicKitten]

6. sorry sounds more like oops

He should be prosecuted for criminal negligence.

What a horrible way to die. Poor thing.

[Liberalynn]

15. I know!

The thought of the suffering the dog went through makes me ill.

[Liberalynn]

16. Just wanted to apologize for posting an Off Topic In this forum.

I hit the wrong link. My plan was to post it in GD.