"To extend its service life" really bugs me.
It's a dog, not a squad car.
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.
What the fuck. How is this not animal cruelty?
Animal Cruelty is basically every K9 Unit's motto.
To them dogs are not man's best friend, just a loyal tool.
Apparently that's better for the teeth? It'd be the attack training that wears them down.
Probably not actually, especially in the long term. Crowns and veneers can lead to lots of other dental problems and the thing is, the dog doesn't have human speech to let handlers know it's in pain or having a problem right away so if they have a rotting tooth or a cracked one under the cap all kinds of things can go wrong.
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.
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.
Yeah, it saves money. Still insane, but not due to the cost.
How about we save the money by not giving the police literal attack dogs to maul people with... Maybe just start ripping budget away from the police that insist on buying up surplus military equipment, ensuring that the only tool they have to solve any problem is a gun. Nah - the people that relentlessly bleat about freedom just loooove that shiny new boot leather taste.
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?
To me, its that being forced to do the same thing all day, nearly everyday, wears out your body and mind, long before their due date.
We just that we don't get many reframed, visible representations of it. Especially ones this apparent.
Meanwhile regular people have to shell out a small fortune for fake teeth out of their pockets, because they surely haven't bought the right brand of toothpaste, mouthwash, floss, and electric toothbrush, not to mention that teeth are for smiling, not eating.
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.
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's no reason to have dogs in "law enforcement" at all.
Working dogs do love their work. But that doesn't mean all work is meaningful.
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.
Pigs don't need attack dogs. They never did. They don't now.
I hate these fucking dogs and the cops that use them https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/11/17/we-re-tracking-police-dog-bites-across-the-country
Which cop was that vet a cousin/brother/spouse of?
Fuck the schools! And fuck that police department too.
