To anyone and everyone who reads my blog I’d like to ask a favour of you, its not a big favour, but its a favour that could help prevent a dog being needlesly put down.
While surfing the net I came across this story Family Pet Tasered by Police
Otis the Boxer
Please read the story that the link leads to, its about a family pet called Otis, that had got out of its yard and was tasered by the Police Dept of Lakewood in Ohio USA, because they believed it to be a pitbull and they believed it was going to attack them, fair enough I suppose, but if you know your dog breed and you watch the video you can clearly see it resembles more of a boxer than a pitbull, plus they did’nt just taser this dog one, they tasered it twice, this was all occuring while a Animal Warden was there to assist in its capture, so if a Animal Wardens there who has experience in catching loose dogs, why the need for the tasering.
Otis being Tasered
Theres also an online petition to sign and thats the favour I’m asking of you, please sign the petition and make your voice heard for this dog.
Sign the petition to help Otis
Please tell your friends about the plight of this poor dog and ask them to sign it please !
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Thanks so much for posting this. It’s nice to know there are people around the world willing to speak up for a defenseless animal. BRAVO –from Oakville, Connecticut, USA
Hi Sharon, I heard about Otis via Twitter and felt that more people should know about this dog’s plight, be it a Boxer or a Pitbull or any breed of dog, tasering an animal twice is not the way to handle it, as I mentioned in my post, there was a dog warden there who supposedly should be trained to handle aggressive and non aggressive dog’s, so why did’nt he do his job instead of leaving it to Police Officers who at the best of times don’t even know how to handle human beings let alone animals.
I will continue to watch this story with interest and hope that the city of Lakewood see’s sense.