Not every German Shepherd is suited for a career in law enforcement, as former Canine Officer Buster demonstrates:
When patroling Rotherham at pub closing times - when the streets are often crowded with drunken revelers - Buster wagged his tail when people came up to him and ate their fries, instead of deterring potential trouble makers, his former handler said.
"He just showed no interest in doing the job," Stephenson added. "He had no fire in his belly."
But fries are good!
Since he's not being allowed to be a canine Officer Friendly, Buster has decided to change careers and has taken on a new position as family pet.
Not interested in rowdy drunkards' fries.
Hi,
I read your blog from time to time - i'm a Miamian currently living in No. VA. Don't know if you've seen this web site dedicated to the dogs and cats displaced by Hurricane Katrina, but it's well worth a look. If you go to their site after the presentation be ready to cry your eyes out - Kleenex is making tons of money on me!
http://www.forpitssake.org/katrina.html
O.K., as a visitor here, too, I don't have the energy here before going to my bedtime during daylight hours (up all night, so now I can sleep all day) to visit the tearjerker website about pets, but I will after I've had a good day's sleep and more energy to cry about the stories I am betting I'll find there.
I'm still glum and upset about that horse that was abandoned in N.O. AFTER the storm (owner did not evacuate until afterward because this particular horse was photographed the day after Katrina impacted N.O. and was seen worldwide wading in water up to his chest with a guy riding him in the city flood)...anyway, that horse was then abandoned and was photographed dead on a tiny patch of dry asphalt two weeks later.
The horse had stood there all those weeks in plain site...seen by many even after he died from exposure and almost certainly fatal infections from drinking the grotesque water surrounding him. I have rarely been so sad as I was when I saw that beautiful horse lying there dead, emaciated, amidst the ruins, weeks later.
Why someone could not have just led him a few miles to some other area and given him a bale of hay (minimum, it would have tided him through for about a week of desperate underfeeding, but he'd have made it) and some fresh water daily or at least every other day, is beyond me. I cannot understand leaving animals there to desperate ends.
Posted by: -S- at October 18, 2005 01:27 PMI found the article to be pretty funny, and close to home. I have two German Shepards, the older of the two was going thru training about a year ago to learn some manners when being walked. The woman who worked with him just loved him, but told my wife he was the laziest dog she had ever seen. The just laughed when she asked if they thought that Thor would make a good cop "Thor a cop, yeah right".
Posted by: greg at October 19, 2005 10:13 AMLilly would have LOVED to be a cop. She lives for confrontation. Shiloh wants her to join the bomb squad.
Yes, people do horrible things to defenseless animals and children.
"The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it?"