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Awesome little tabby cat to the rescue!

 
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I'm hoping I might not be the only one here to take a couple of minutes to send an email of protest to the AFP about this:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-...amera-attacking-dog-with-pepper-spray/5539264

Three officers taunted a dog which was chained up to a pole. Then they sprayed the poor creature with pepper spray laughing at they did it and filming the dog's distress on a phone.

Just appalling behaviour from a section of the community who should be setting an example.:(:(:(
 
I love it when critters in zoos give a bit of their own back.

[video]http://www.theaustralian.com.au/video/id-lidWxxbjoUS_eBrQo633YppvdeYXc-_3#ooid=lidWxxbjoUS_eBrQo633YppvdeYXc-_3[/video]

The other good news was that four retards were injured in the Running of the Bulls at Pamplona.
 
Calliope said:
I love it when critters in zoos give a bit of their own back.

[video]http://www.theaustralian.com.au/video/id-lidWxxbjoUS_eBrQo633YppvdeYXc-_3#ooid=lidWxxbjoUS_eBrQo633YppvdeYXc-_3[/video]

The other good news was that four retards were injured in the Running of the Bulls at Pamplona.
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LOL. I agree.

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A picture from this year's event.
 
Calliope said:
I love it when critters in zoos give a bit of their own back.

The other good news was that four retards were injured in the Running of the Bulls at Pamplona.
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Yes, so agree. Detest human beings who seem to believe that animals exist for their amusement and abuse.
 
Four horses were retired from Victoria Police's service.
Peaceful retirement homes were found by one of their carers for them.
Victoria Police shot them.
Disgust doesn't even begin to cover it.:(:(:(:(
 
Julia said:
Four horses were retired from Victoria Police's service.
Peaceful retirement homes were found by one of their carers for them.
Victoria Police shot them.
Disgust doesn't even begin to cover it.:(:(:(:(
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You are right that is disgusting. But I wonder if like police dogs they get so used to their handlers that they don't get on with anyone else.

It seems such a waste though.
 
SirRumpole said:
You are right that is disgusting. But I wonder if like police dogs they get so used to their handlers that they don't get on with anyone else.
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Probably different, Rumpole, in that dog handlers very much just live and work with their own dog, and that dog in retirement stays with that family. The horses would, I suppose, be handled by various carers, with whom they'd form a bond, and - also guessing - be ridden by various members of the mounted police force. Someone might know more on this?

The story was in the Weekend Australian Magazine. The carer concerned is devastated that she had found loving homes for these noble animals, yet they were not only refused gentle euthanasia via injection, but rewarded for their years of service by the brutality of being shot. Just sickening.

We do not need to look to the Middle East for barbarity.
 
Julia said:
Probably different, Rumpole, in that dog handlers very much just live and work with their own dog, and that dog in retirement stays with that family. The horses would, I suppose, be handled by various carers, with whom they'd form a bond, and - also guessing - be ridden by various members of the mounted police force. Someone might know more on this?

The story was in the Weekend Australian Magazine. The carer concerned is devastated that she had found loving homes for these noble animals, yet they were not only refused gentle euthanasia via injection, but rewarded for their years of service by the brutality of being shot. Just sickening.

We do not need to look to the Middle East for barbarity.
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I'm going from memory, but in one paper I read today (Fin Review or The Australian) it said that a police woman who was the main (possibly only) rider of one of the horses had agreed beforehand to take and care for that horse and only found out after the event that the horse had been put down. The police apologised to her for their insensitivity.
 
bellenuit said:
I'm going from memory, but in one paper I read today (Fin Review or The Australian) it said that a police woman who was the main (possibly only) rider of one of the horses had agreed beforehand to take and care for that horse and only found out after the event that the horse had been put down. The police apologised to her for their insensitivity.
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Thanks, bellenuit. The way it was reported in the Weekend Australian Magazine read that the woman, Tori Weir, was an unsworn member of the Mounted branch. She had joined as a Farm Support Officer.
Weir's job required her to work at the Mounted Branch's 30ha property at Attwood, near Melbourne airport, which was home to the police horses when they were not on duty at the branch's city stables in South Melbourne. She would feed the horses, give them medication, prepare them and transport those on duty to South Melbourne and back. She knew each horse intimately and kept close track of them, writing reports on their progress.
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In the article by Trent Dalton, she also alleges lack of care in her absense, resulting in one horse dying.

The rest is as you have described, bellenuit. ie that she had found loving homes for all four horses in retirement making this clear to Victoria Police, only to find after the event that the animals she so loved had been shot.


Weire's mother said "If a person punches a police horse they can be charged with assault. I'm not sure what the penalty for shooting one unnecessarily should be".

Exactly.
 

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