Owner Grieving After Dog Shot by Police.

[TorchTheWitch]

63. The dog that was shot was not the 14 week old puppy

The puppy was unharmed.

Yeah, I am an awesome trainer. Sorry if that bothers you. No, none of my dogs ever jumped on anyone even when they were puppies. At 14 weeks they were crated as they should be. A 14 week old puppy that is allowed to have the run of the house and is allowed to jump on people in play is a bad habit that needs to be broken later. Far better to never let them do it in the first place. Of course my dogs weren't born trained. But like the good trainer I am their training started from the minute they came to my home, and long before I ever got the first one is when I took on the responsibility of being a dog owner that is required for the dog, me (since I live alone with no other family or roommates), the people the dog knows and the people and other pets it doesn't know or is not part of the dog's family. The way it's SUPPOSED to be. So, no, never not once did any of my dogs ever charge at anyone and/or jump on them no matter what their age because it's a bad habit for the dog to get into and damned rude to let your dog behave that way toward other people or their pets regardless of its age.

Anyone who LETS their full grown dog run and jump on people especially those that don't know the dog is a lousy excuse of a dog owner. A medium or large sized dog can easily hurt someone by accident in play. Even a small sized dog can cause pain and minor injuries to a full grown adult from their jumping on someone wearing shorts or a skirt or pants of thin material. Letting your dog charge at people and jump on them is just plain rude. People generally don't want a dog jumping on them whether they like the dog or not.

I have large breed dogs. I let them jump up on their hind legs with only me and never jump ON me, but they can enjoy their excitement in play and get rid of excess energy just by jumping up but not ON me. They're huge. They weigh more than I do. Were they allowed to jump ON me they'd knock me flat. Because of their size alone they're intimidating to most people, so I don't allow them to do those things that I'm ok with them doing only with me to other people. I don't even allow them to press against people in a fit of affection because leaning their full weight on someone that isn't prepared for it would also knock them flat. They're perfectly allowed to have fits of excitement and affection for the people they know and love, but they know what is acceptable in how to demonstrate that and what isn't. And if they're so thrilled they can hardly contain themselves they know that they can run around in a circle, jump around chasing their tails, etc. to release some pent up excitement.

Had this family taught their dogs how to behave properly especially toward strangers and even if they didn't or couldn't because they didn't know how but at least had the common sense to lock up the dogs in their crates or in another room or just in the house when they opened the front door so that people wouldn't feel threatened or annoyed by their antics then that's obviously what they should have done and then none of this would have happened. Anyone that LETS their dog charge a policeman with no physical control of the dog and not even bothering to call the dog off is a fucking IDIOT who PUT their dog into a position of danger and should have known the likely result. To have done that and then boo-hooed after the fact with a lousy excuse of "gee, the dog was just excitedly greeting the police officer and had no intention to harm him" is too damn stupid to own a dog, and SHAME ON THEM for PUTTING their dog into this situation in the first place. And now here they are after the fact, and they STILL don't get it that THEY are at fault for LETTING their dog get into a dangerous situation that got it killed. And because of that I have exactly zero confidence that they learned a damn thing from this sad affair and will allow their puppy to run amok as well thereby putting yet another of their dogs unnecessarily into danger and if/when that happens just boo hoo about it blaming everyone else but their own selves for totally falling down on the job of being a responsible dog owner. That puppy deserves FAR better than these idiots.

From the moment you decide to own a dog is when you take on the responsibility of training that dog and doing whatever you have to to keep it out of danger and from hurting anyone either on purpose or by accident. And it's BEFORE you get that dog that you start doing your damn homework in how to train it and how to keep it contained/controlled for everyone's sake INCLUDING the dog.