This Week in Puppycide: 12/09/17

Here’s a roundup of recent headlines involving police shootings of pets and other animals:

• Attempted | Cotopaxi, CO (11/30/17): School resource officer and candidate for county sheriff goes to a family home over a school matter, shoots & wounds their pit bull after he allegedly growls and “lung[es]” at him. He claims he tried to pacify the dog, but the family says the dog has never been aggressive.
  (via Dogs Shot by Police | Facebook)

• WTF | Crawford County, GA (12/01/17): Deputy shoots & kills a family dog accused of “lunging toward” him and biting a neighbor. Sheriff’s investigator then forces the owner to decapitate the dog with a kitchen knife under penalty of jail to have the animal tested for rabies.
  (via @PuppycideDB)

• Unjustified | Trumann, AR (12/04/17): Police statement claims an officer tried to capture a loose family dog, which the cop then shot dead after it “became aggressive”; there’s no indication that non-lethal equipment was utilized. The statement also claims police tried to contact a vet clinic, and that they later called the family to give their condolences.
  (via Dogs Shot by Police | Facebook)

• Possibly Justified | Philadelphia, PA (12/08/17): Officer accidentally injures another cop with a ricochet whilst shooting down a dog that repeatedly bit an elderly woman, causing severe injuries.
  (via Dogs Shot by Police | Facebook)

If you know of any similar stories I haven’t mentioned, you can leave them in the comments or send them in.

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