Is a Pet Dog Really Killed by a Police Officer Every 98 Minutes?

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6. that would be 5,363 dogs a year

which is kinda hard to believe.

But I certainly believe there is a lot of incompetence in police departments and animal control departments.

At least there seems to be in my city - anecdotally.

My male used to jump the fence or crawl under the fence on a regular basis - as I kept trying to close escape routes - even going so far as to sometimes put him on a chain in my fenced yard.

Once he was gone pretty much all day, and after being unable to find him in searches, I started to head to work. As I got on my bike I could hear a dog barking furiously in the alley and my other dog reacted to it as well.

Turns out my neighbor had coaxed my dog into her yard with bologna and she and a cop had him cornered in a corner of her fenced yard and the garage.

Well, of course when you trap an animal in a corner it is gonna be scared and fight.

Then there's animal control. The daughter of that dog decided to run off one very hot night, and she was gone for a week while I searched the city, searched the woods, and called the police and animal control. Wednesday night they got a call about my dog. Instead of calling me, I didn't hear anything until I called them on Friday. Only to learn that she was hit by a car a few hours before my call.

I still believe that THEY chased her into traffic or ran her over themselves. She was fine for a week until they happened on the scene. And if they had called me Wednesday afternoon, she would have been home, and unhurt Wednesday evening.