Seattle Police have a puppy in custody after a brief chase around Cal Anderson Park.
According to sources within the department, a woman called police after her puppy—which she’d recently purchased—got loose. The woman was apparently worried that her dog would be hit by a car.
An unknown number of officers pursued the puppy around Cal Anderson for 20 or 30 minutes before they were able to capture the dog and return it to its owner. “it’s a Keystone Cops sort of thing” one officer joked, before adding that police should have Tasered the dog.
One police officer, who has reportedly never lost a foot chase, says it’s not unusual for the department to get involved in animal calls. The officer—who asked not to be identified—would not speculate as to whether he could have outrun and apprehended the dog. “I have no idea. It depends on the dog,” he says.
This is ridiculous and a discrimination, if true, that firemen no longer respond to calls about cats stuck in trees and on power line poles. Why do dogs get special treatment?
i saw that dog! it wasn’t no puppy, that thing was huge and fast, like cujo, but fortunately, not a pit bull. There were four cops on the scene, fumbling after it look a rousing match of flag football, but the dog outsmarted them. and one of the cops yelled at me to help her catch the dog. but i shrugged my shoulders and said “i aint touchin no dog.”
Kudos for looking out the window at the park, watching a while, then going downstairs and across the street to interview the officer. Ringring! Pulitzer calling!
Damn I almost got run over by that dog! It was HUGE! Thanks slog for the deets.
Um, what a tremendous waste of taxpayer money?
And we, living 1.5 blocks from the fire station, had to spend 3 hours coaxing down our kitten stuck really high in a tree. Cuz they said they couldn’t help us.