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I train dobermans and one of my customers calls me yesterday and asks if I will send him a training certificate for his dog which was trained by us. He then relays a harrowing story of a late night traffic stop where both officers approached the car with weapons drawn,unfortunately the passenger window was open and the dudes doby was curled in the front seat.all our dogs are trained to respond to a brandished weapon so when the dog spots the cop with his weapon in hand he leaps out of the window and latches on to the cop with his weapon in hand..hard very hard. The officer yells up a storm and the cop on the drivers side opens up on the dog killing him. The cops are trying to charge my buddy with resisting and assault with a trained attack dog.
He did not command the dog to respond and needed our certificate to prove to the cops that the dog had been conditioned to respond to a brandished weapons.
It's a big god damn mess I have been summoned to go testify not looking forward to this bullshit from the cops as I have been through it once before. I train guard dogs not attack dogs and although the training is very similar the results are not but the stupid cops only see it that way when it's one of their dogs involved.
Guard dogs are taught to latch and hold where an attack dog is taught to disarm and disable the significant difference being that once the officer dropped his weapon no further attack proceeds from a guard whereas an attack dog tries to rip the guys throat out.
I understand the fear the cops have as the understand the ability of a dog to damage a human being but I also feel that approaching a vehicle on a routine traffic stop with a drawn weapon is asking for trouble.
My buddy is facing 20k in fines and 30 days in jail if convicted...pure bullshit if the dog had been attack trained it a cut and dry case,guilty. If proven the dog was guard trained it's case dismissed..not looking forward to this at all
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