FREEZE DON'T SHOOT - NORTH CAROLINA
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This is a national circulating petition in all states for the purpose of bringing awareness to the public and ask officials to mandate training that would help prevent the use of lethal gun force against our pets.
Police often shoot first and ask
questions later. Among hundreds of recent victims: Labradors, Wheaten
terriers, and a five-pound Chihuahua. The shooting of dogs by police has
become disturbingly common across the country. Citizens have noticed an
increase in media accounts of police officers shooting the family pet
with a notable lack of remorse or disciplinary consequences. Too many
officers have gotten rather callous about it and it's past time for training
in animal behavior and safely engaging with a family pet, or even
a stray, be implemented. Police have recently killed pets while merely
questioning neighbors about a crime in the area, cutting across private
property while in pursuit of a suspect, and after responding to a false
burglar alarm. It doesn't matter if your dog is loose or leashed, or if
you've posted "Beware of Dog" warnings. If dangerous dogs are so common,
one would expect to find frequent reports of vicious attacks on meter
readers, postal workers, firemen, and delivery workers. But according to
a spokesman from the United States Postal Service, serious dog attacks
on mail carriers are vanishingly rare. Bites do happen, but postal
workers are given training on how to distract dogs with toys, subdue
them with voice commands, or, at worst, incapacitate them with Mace.
Mail carriers are shown a two-hour video and given instruction on how to
recognize and read a dog's body language, how to differentiate between
aggressive charging and playful bounding, and how to tell a truly
dangerous dog from a merely territorial one. Few police departments
offer this kind of training, though groups like the ASPCA and the Humane
Society say they'd be more than happy to provide it.
In
closing we the people of North Carolina would like to ask officials to
mandate training that would help prevent the use of lethal gun force
against our pets.
FREEZE
DON'T SHOOT is a nationwide campaign established to stop the killing of
pets and strays by law enforcement and mandate training on animal
behavior. FDS is NOT anti-police. FDS is anti-KILLING. The KILLING must
STOP.
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