I scanned the picture from the paper as they did not have the picture on line. As you can see Flip was not a "large, powerful dog" at all. The article also says he was gentle. I did not think so much that he was trying to protect something he had on his property but wondered if he had a gripe against the police officer or police in general




Issuing you a ticket and impounding your dog is quite a leap to shooting the dog and killing it. I still don't understand why he couldn't have called the police or since the man and dog lived there for several years, why he couldn't have called the dog owner.