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  • I will say, I work ambulance for a very right wing rural community. I have done this for a number of years now.

    While I do have issues at times with our local LEO, they do a good job with not shooting my patients, or their dogs.

    They have done a good job in my community with securing the scene without escalating and then standing back and let us deal with medical/mental health crisis.

    These stories do happen to often, and there are policy changes that need to happen, but there are a significant number of communities that have law enforcement who are acting appropriately and therefore get no news coverage.


  • Yeah, being a first responder really changed my perspective on a lot of “safe” areas" and how far help is.

    When you have one lone deputy in your entire county for a good portion of the night (and frequently only 2-3 cars during the day), and state is just on call, not patrolling… you can easily be 45 minutes out from LEO, that’s been a very long wait before…















  • If the dog is determined enough… I had a beagle who would slip his collar, so I got him a harness, he would slip that too, so I had to get this full body “tactical” harness for him. He was good with that one for a while till he figured out he could cheese off the back buckle and wriggle out of the rest.

    I also had a boxer growing up that learned how to slip her collar.

    I have a friend who raises black and tans, and he had a removed that would always slip her collar when she was chained.

    I currently raise Blueticks and fortunately have not had any of them figure that out. But my only indoor bluetick learned how to unlock deadbolts and open doors… so she is now an outdoor only dog. And then she learned how to open gates… so now all the gates have to be locked.