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05-07-2013, 07:00 PM
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Re: Mississippi K-9 Dies After Officer Forgets Him in Car; Activists Furious
When I take my dogs on trips, they know when we are home and when I get out of the car they are up and alert and anxious for me to open the back door so they can get out. Hansel will even jump into the front seat to try to get out with me. I could never forget that they are in the car.
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05-07-2013, 08:23 PM
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Re: Mississippi K-9 Dies After Officer Forgets Him in Car; Activists Furious
This is unbelievable, that dog was his partner and he just left to die a slow death? This guy should not only be fired but also he should be sent to jail. |
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05-07-2013, 08:51 PM
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Re: Mississippi K-9 Dies After Officer Forgets Him in Car; Activists Furious
my father in law's work dog would get so wound up when the car would stop or when the lights were on, he would run in circles in the back seat and would injure himself if my father in law couldnt get him calmed fast enough. there's no way he could have forgotten the dog in the car....
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05-08-2013, 07:36 AM
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Re: Mississippi K-9 Dies After Officer Forgets Him in Car; Activists Furious
What i'm trying to say is that there's no training that will ever teach you how to love or even just know dogs; the man wasn't obviously a dog lover and his knownledge about/respect for the dog were close to zero. That's the problem. Half an hour from my house there's one of the biggest training center for Police dogs in Europe, Baschi Rossi, Squadrone Eliportato Carabinieri Cacciatori "Sardegna": i've had the luck to be there dozens of times, both as a guest and for work. One of the things that caught my attention was the relationship between trainer and dog, and how much different are trainings for anti-drugs dogs, anti-explosive dogs, search and rescue dog, arson dogs, cadaver dogs etcetera. The dynamics of learning vary deeply from case to case and especially for anti-drugs, we can say that it's a teamwork, not just a matter of sniffing substances. The trainer of one of the best Dogs (now retired after exposing hundreds of traffickers) once told me that the about the 20% of drug related arrests that he made with the dog in his career, was due to the BEHAVIOR of the trafficker, and it had nothing to do with the smell of the drugs: and not only. The trainer was basically the only one able to understand when the dog felt something strange about the behavior of the subject. And guess what? Whenever for some reason the dog was carried to some operation and there wasn't his fav trainer, then he wouldn't even leave the car. Yes, he would keep his ass sitting there, no way to convince him to move. This because in that case dog+trainer are a TEAM, and this can't be done when one of the two team members doesn't love dogs. The basic concept of training police dogs is that you and the dog are team mates, that's all there's to it: some people will get it instantly, other people will never get it, i honestly believe that some people will never understand the importance of the dogs for humans, there's nothing to do when 2800 years after Homer told to us about Argos some people still doesn't understand that dogs are very special animals. They would no exitate in giving away their life for you, some humans believe that dogs are stupid because they can't talk... 1st - Dogs CAN talk, it is you who doesn't understand them. 2nd - Some people are confirmed to be MUCH more stupid than dogs, because of what they say, so not neccessarly the ability to speak is a good thing. But what i'd like to say about this case is that it has really nothing to do with what dog training has been created for. When the training is well-designed, the only acceptable result is that dogs are much respected, and that they are as sacred as any other member of the team. The worst thing that you can to to them is to put them in the wrong hands |