The Washington Post: Animal advocates say the Apache County, Ariz., incident with a deputy fatally shooting seven abandoned dogs highlights the need for the area to address rampant pet hoarding and abandonment.

Animal advocates say the Apache County, Ariz., incident with a deputy fatally shooting seven abandoned dogs highlights the need for the area to address rampant pet hoarding and abandonment.

Deputy fatally shoots seven starving, abandoned dogswapo.st Animal advocates say the Apache County, Ariz., incident highlights the need for the area to address rampant pet hoarding and abandonment.

it's funny bc it's true

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No? This highlights to remove Guns from Police. If a dog needs to be put down you call out an emergency vet to Humanely Euthanise, shooting is an extreme last resort.

There is a need to increase welfare of Animals ; this much is a known truth especially in the US (here in the UK it’s far better.) however to write as if the issue in this instance is not the Cop is disingenuous at best , and malicious at worst. Starving animals can be saved ; This is a known fact.

Many animals make FULL recoveries from some of the most shocking and disturbing images you will ever see , they go on to live full healthy lives and die much later in life, a Sociopathic Police Officers are the problem here.

The writer of this article should know better than this , I won’t name the individual as to not push hate toward them however this is just a blatant attempt at shielding Cops from rightful persecution for malicious acts.

And finally ; Are animal killers like the Cop in question who YOU want protecting you? What if that Cop gets “bored” of shooting animals and goes for People, because that is what the issue is here.

they probably wrote it this way because if the cops decide they hate you they just come shoot you or arrest your kids for resisting arrest. Personally I think if you don't want that heat you shouldn't work in journalism, but this is the Washington Post so they don't do any of that anyway.

I am not -at all- saying the deputy isn't in the wrong. But people who don't neuter/abuse/abandon dogs, are the real villains. Much easier to SAY "capture possibly aggressive dogs, & humanely euthanize" than to do it. Easy to blame a cop, but he just f'd up a solution, he didn't create the problem.

This isn’t a case of aggressive dogs , this says Emaciated , Starving dogs. And a “what if” isn’t the solution here.

On the contrary, cops are the ENTIRE problem. Always 😒

I mean . . . yeah . . . I guess so . . . but also maybe the need to address sociopathic cops who shoot and kill for kicks?

This!

"Man gets mad at soda can left on roadside, detonates nuclear warhead in response, killing 17 million people and showing the need to address littering."

Yeah, I don't think that's QUITE what this illustrates

Or maybe cops not randomly shooting people and dogs for no reason.

Or, the need for the area to send somebody OTHER THAN COPS to abandoned animals.

What the actual fuck is this phrasing

Who the fuck wrote this headline? What kind of psychopath shoots abandoned dogs like this?!

Or that cops are irresponsible murderous thugs lacking ng common sense and basic humanity

As an animal advocate I say #ACAB.

What? That's the takeaway you want me to have? Not that it highlights the casual and almost eager way police in America shoot dogs with? And that there are hardly ever consequences for it?

Is this the photo we really need?

Yes. It is exactly the photo we need. Does it make you uncomfortable? You SHOULD be uncomfortable.

I am uncomfortable. Very. But I can picture it in my head from the headline and article and don’t need to see the one time that a cop’s body cam actually worked.

I genuinely sympathize with you, it's a shame to have to see it. I do think it's important for us, as a people, writ large, to see images like that. It helps many of us - if not most - folks accept and come to terms with things we're normally eager to ignore.

This is the second headline I've seen in 2 weeks about a cop just butchering a dog because it was too much work to do anything else.

Well fucking said!

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh what

Seems like it highlights the need for abolishing the police

WTF!? Why? His life was threatened? There’s a fence between the officer and the dogs. This was target practice.

Congrats on writing a most obnoxiously disgusting headline and failing to incriminate the dog killer sociopath cop there. 10/10, no notes.

Does it, though? Is that what it shows? Are you sure about that one?

cop is a sociopath

My god: am I reading this headline correctly?

Or maybe it highlights the need for law enforcement agencies to not hire sociopaths. FFS, what is wrong with you?

They draw from their community and guess who applies for the job?

Aren’t you the same paper that published this literally two weeks ago? www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...

A police officer shot a blind pet dog. This small town wants justice.www.washingtonpost.com The killing of Teddy the dog in Sturgeon, Mo., has upended the small, 900-person town, as residents call for the dismissal of officer Myron Woodson.

A cop shoots a dog in this small Missouri town and the people there want to dismantle their two-officer law enforcement agency. A cop shoots 7 dogs because apparently he’s a kill shelter, and your headline is almost congratulating him for this brave act. What the actual fuck?

When you go through life as a cop, the solution to everything is killing it.

Lmao what

I assume the editor is aware that summary is insane, and this is some sort of attempt at horrifying engagement bait?

I think it highlights how cops are bloodthirsty maniacs and we should stop funding them.

The trigger-happy, sociopathic cop issue is right there, Susan.

Surely it highlights the need for this guy to never have been given a gun?

"coward shoots dogs thru fence," got it

WaPo I know you've got one of Murdoch's bootlickers at the head now, but c'mon. Do you need to bootlick and defend a dog murderer? I know the answer is yes, but c'mon - have some kind of internal morality discussion amongst yourselves.

This highlights the need for cops to be hit in the head with a hammer and dumped over a bridge

Police love shooting dogs. I’m sure they love shooting black men even more, but nowadays that can create trouble. Dogs? Mostly go unnoticed except from cop violence watchers.