This is infuriating! This dog was not running loose. He was in his own backyard and those police officers trespassed in that dog's eyes. And the woman wasn't even notified!? They just left the dog for her to find!? *FUMES*
What if the dogs ran up to them with a friendly reaction?
I feel so sorry for that woman.
Link to the story below..
Dog Killed
Wichita
Brooke Erickson
Officers responded to a house alarm on Bleckley Street and found something they weren’t looking for in the back yard.
Nicholette Boettjer loves her dogs as if they were children.
Boettjer says, “They’re like my kids, my babies.”
That’s why she was devastated on Monday morning when she found her dog laying dead, blood everywhere.
A Wichita police officer shot the dog, after he came out to check on a house alarm.
Police tell KAKE News they secured the house, as standard procedure, and then went to the backyard.
Capt. Gary Trabor says they shook the gate and fence and whistled.
Two dogs in the garage apparently didn’t hear the officer. They walked into the backyard, surprising him.
“You get two large animals coming at you, you use deadly force,” says Trabor.
Trabor says the officers fired four rounds, striking one dog and killing another.
But Boettjer doesn’t understand why they had to shoot them.
In situations like this, where it is only a false alarm, Trabor says if police know there are dogs present, they get the residents to come home. That way they don’t have to deal with the animals.
“We don’t like to kill dogs,” says Trabor.
Trabor says this is the first situation he knows of where an officer killed a dog in an owner’s backyard.
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