8/3/2012 - Apparently Highland County, Ohio has a dearth of veterinarians who could evaluate and determine whether elderly Ginger, the dog, really was suffering and if euthanasia really was the kindest option. Instead, a deputy took matters into his own hands, decided the old dog was "suffering" and shot her. After ten minutes passed, he noticed the dog was still breathing and obviously shot her a second time, killing her. Her guardians are a bit upset.
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8/3/2012 - A dog described as a German Shepherd, and with a history of aggression, escaped from his yard after biting his owner. Officers arrived. The dog bit two of them before the decision was made to shoot the dog. He is alive but the family wants him dead. In a great move, police took a non-aggressive Pit Bull because the family didn't have a license to have her/him, and that dog will be murdered by authorities. I mean, "euthanized"!
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8/1/2012 - Illinois police fatally shot a dog, described as a Pit Bull, after the dog was let out in his own backyard where officers had positioned themselves in an attempt to arrest a fleeing suspect.
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7/31/2012 - Even though unarmed animal control officers were later able to safely round up these dogs without them eating anyone, a San Diego police officer found it completely unfathomable to try any other tactic than aiming his gun and shooting at two loose dogs. He missed. Thankfully no one was accidentally nailed by the now roaming bullets!
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7/31/2012 - A New Jersey police officer was bitten but did not immediately draw his weapon to shoot and kill 10-yr-old and also obese Storm, a Pit Bull. The dog had bitten the officer under a misguided assumption that she needed to protect her guardian from being arrested. The owner of the dog plans on getting Storm out of the shelter.
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7/30/2012 - Lorain police shot and injured a loose dog, described as a Pit Bull who "lunged" at bystanders so scarily that the dog didn't actually hurt anyone.
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7/30/2012- New Jersey police shot and killed a dog, described as a Pit Bull. Three dogs were running loose when a woman called police. Obviously the most logical thing to do is to stand outside amongst the three loose dogs and discuss them. One of the dogs nipped the woman, and so the police officer shot the dog multiple times. The woman and her child were so traumatized by the shooting that they had to go to the hospital.
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Updates:
Back in May, a Monroe Animal Control officer picking up three dogs at an animal shelter managed to screw up the entire affair by somehow letting all three dogs loose, then shooting and killing two of them after they "became aggressive". Police have deemed his dog killing actions totes cool. Just don't ever call this dude to pick up loose dogs!
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Other animal shootings:
7/31/2012 - An Elmsford, NY police officer shot and killed a rabid cat who chased and attacked him.
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