The dog was only 6-yo, not like they were whipping along some old man.
Ever been around dogs? They love doing what they’re trained for. Had he been forcibly retired, he would have been devastated.
The caps are almost certainly way cheaper than purchasing a new dog. Last I heard, trained Germans Shepherds were going for $10,000, and that was 30-years ago.
There should be a program to retire trained service animals that are too old to keep to go to like…veterans with a high-activity lifestyle or something idk. Or even like a retirement home for service animals where they can live out the rest of their days feeling challenged and engaged
They are good dogs, highly trained, very obedient, and quite intelligent. Probably smarter than most the cops they get paired with. They just need to stay active or they get really depressed.
If he was retired, he just needs his own Pixie kitten to help him acclimate to civilian life.
Pixie and Brutus is so cute.
I maintain that Pixie is his therapy kitten, but Brutus doesn’t know that.
I can headcanon that.
My favorite strip so far is the one in which the rabbit kicks a pinecone at Pixie. The illustration of “the gang” showing up is absolutely brilliant.
Just today I was listening to Peter F. Hamilton’s “Exodus: The Archimedes Engine” and the mention of attack dogs with diamond-tipped teeth sounded a little wacky for sci-fi. Sometimes life can be stranger than fiction.
always remember the #1 killer of K-9 units is neglectful officers.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10282580.2019.1576128
oh they’ll call it heat exhaustion! Like the pups ran a marathon off their own accord and didn’t hydrate.
It can’t be normal to wear out k9 teeth. I know they file them so they punch instead of tear but this seems dumb. What is he biting bricks?
Devils advocate: retiring an old service dog means you’d need to invest in training another pup which is way more expensive than titanium teeth and dealing even with animal cruelty complaints and/or lawsuits. Also “bleed blue” fanboys will see this as badass, so its free PR.
As a mortal/moral person advocate: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.
Devil’s advocate counter: You think the pigs give one hoot about the cost? Of course they don’t.
Money saved on k9’s is money for some super ugly Oakley’s dude
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I’ve had two pair of Oakley’s in my life so far. They were both free.
I hope you stole them from a cop.
I don’t know who gave them to me. I just found both pairs in places that it made no sense for them to be.
One was just sitting in the middle of Natural Bridge, in Natural Bridge State Park, Kentucky. The second pair just showed up on the hood of my still running car while I was on delivery. The universe does strange things like that.
Yeah, it saves money. Still insane, but not due to the cost.
Which cop was that vet a cousin/brother/spouse of?
Is it proper to hold the dog’s snout like a bowling ball to show its teeth?
A dog’s nose is 1000 times more sensitive than a human’s
It’s animal cruelty so it works!
It’s 1000 times more sensitive to scent. I’m no veterinarian, nor am I a dog, but I foster dogs, and those little fuckers aren’t exactly gentle about shoving their snouts into anything and everything available. I doubt it would hurt the dog.
That being said, yeah, the dog doesn’t like it, and would probably bite anyone other than their human that tried to do that.
“To extend its service life” really bugs me.
More military cosplay from the thugs with badges. That’s the terminology used for service member medical procedures.
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To be fair, animals have been used that way for many millennia. It’s just recently we decided that some animals are pets and not tools.
To be even more fair, that is exactly the terminology used for military personnel medical procedures. We all know that the thugs with badges absolutely love to cosplay as military, so it follows that they would use military terminology.
It’s a dog, not a squad car.
It makes them sound like a car or something.
Military members are considered “equipment,” by the US military. The terminology originated with them. The thugs with badges are using it for their cosplay.
I don’t think that’s okay for military purposes either tbh. Actually it’s pretty disgusting.
I can understand that when taken at face value. The reason for it is that as a member of the military, you are extremely technically no longer a citizen of the US, nor are you governed by the laws and regulations of the US. You are now governed by the UCMJ, which, in theory, is much stricter about what codes of conduct will be allowed in your day to day life.
Mostly it’s for accounting purposes.
This fuckin dog gets better healthcare than I do.
They’re Cops. “Better blue than you” per every municipality ever.
What the fuck. How is this not animal cruelty?
And how is it nobody seems to have noticed the two jawbones mounted above?
I don’t think those are jawbones. They’re casts of the dogs jaws with the prepared caps test-fitted to each tooth.
That makes sense.
Animal Cruelty is basically every K9 Unit’s motto.
To them dogs are not man’s best friend, just a loyal tool.
Dude it’s dental benefits for K9 workers.
Apparently that’s better for the teeth? It’d be the attack training that wears them down.
