TARPON SPRINGS – A family dog is making a miraculous recovery after it was shot in the chest by a Tarpon Springs police officer who said the dog tried to bite him several times. The dog, a chocolate Lab-Besanji mix named Karuso, somehow got out of the family’s backyard and went straight to Craig Park, … Read more
A sheriff’s deputy in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, killed a family’s dog last month. The clop claims the dog charged at him aggressively three times before he felt the need to shoot it. The family denies this—and says the officer killed the dog in front of the children. The deputy was responding to a harassment call … Read more
One Ville Platte family is looking for answers after they say a deputy from the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office shot and killed their son’s dog. The deputy was responding to a house call regarding harassment from a neighbor when the dog got out. In a report, the deputy said the dog aggressively charged at the … Read more
A Mansfield family is mourning the death of their five-year-old Great Dane after an off-duty officer fatally shot the dog as children played nearby. “I want to see some justice. I want him to have some accountability,” said the dog’s owner, Carol Evans. The off-duty police officer was walking his own dog Sunday evening in … Read more
A police officer can shoot a dog if it barks or moves when the officer enters a home, under a new federal court ruling issued this month. The ruling comes after police in Battle Creek, Michigan, shot two pit bulls while searching a home for evidence of drugs in 2013. The dogs’ owners, Mark and … Read more
WICHITA, Kan. – A Sedgwick County Sheriff’s deputy shot a dog while trying to serve a protection order in Planeview. It happened on Wednesday around 2 p.m., near Pawnee and George Washington Boulevard. A deputy said she announced herself before entering the gated area of the house. But the dog owner said that did not … Read more
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – A family pet was shot and killed by a Hillsborough County deputy Sunday, News Channel 8 confirmed. An Apollo Beach woman told us two unknown deputies responded to an abandoned home in her neighborhood while she was in her back yard with her dogs and her children. The woman said her … Read more
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Michigan woman has no basis to sue the Detroit Police Department (DPD) for shooting her three dogs because they were not properly licensed. U.S. District Court Judge George Caram Steeh dismissed a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Detroit resident Nikita Smith last last year after a marijuana … Read more
The Brooks family had just sat down to eat lunch when they heard someone entering their fenced-in front yard. The family’s two dogs, Duke and Minnie, ran outside through the dog doors to see who was there, followed closely behind by their owner, Charlie Brooks. By the time Brooks opened his front door, Duke was … Read more
Alliance Ohio Police Officer Josh Tenney actions were captured on his Body Worn Camera when he summoned the friendly dog to him only to shoot it dead. A few minutes before the dogs’ owners had noticed his dogs were not in the yard and began searching for them only to find his dog China laying … Read more
Newly released bodycam footage shows a police officer’s perspective when he responded to a burglary alarm and shot two tail-wagging dogs earlier this month — but doesn’t seem to help prove his reason for pulling the trigger. The officer, identified as Michael Mays of the Minneapolis Police Department, is seen in the clip pointing his … Read more
MISSOURI CITY, Texas – It began as a noise complaint involving a party Friday night in a Missouri City subdivision. A few minutes later, a family dog was shot in the head. “A neighbor asked us to turn down the music, and we did,” said Lizz Pedragon. Thirty minutes later, she said Missouri City police … Read more