Deputies shoot pug for snarling rush-hour traffic

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Sheriff's deputies say they were forced to shoot a pug on Interstate 90 after they were unable to catch the dog during rush hour traffic.

[used to love york]

If that happened here we would have used the taser on it about 4 times.

[Just a Thought]

It is sad that they had to put the dog down but in the end the public safety must come first. If any is angry they should be angry at the moron that left the dog run loose.

[cracka]

Pug is good eating, that dog could have fed a whole family for a week or two, I hope they donated the meat to a food bank.

[Snake doc]

Just a Thought wrote:

It is sad that they had to put the dog down but in the end the public safety must come first. If any is angry they should be angry at the moron that left the dog run loose.

You are 100% right. Unfortunately in our society it is never the moron or the criminal who people blame. It is always the police who are at fault. There's always somebody out there willing to take a story like this and somehow tie it to some local disdain for the police. Like saying if that happened here we would have tased it 4 times. Is that a bad thing to tase it 4 times if it saves the dog and nobody crashes?

[marlin]

How does a little Pug dog run around in
70 mph traffic at the height of rush
hour for the amount of time for "all" of
these people to arrive and not get hit?
Something just doesn't sound right.

[Living In Margaritaville]

Can't wait to see the outcome of this when the PETA groupies show up!!!

[Sparky]

A pug that did not respond to food? No way!

[reality check]

Yes, it's sad that they shot the dog but it would have been more sad if people died while trying to avoid hitting the dog. Give the police a break-they are there to save human lives.

[Dave]

If snarling rush hour traffic is a capital crime, there's a road repair crew that should share the fate of that dog.

[Steve]

The officers definitely did the right thing. Human life is more valuable than that of an animals.

[nosferatu]

Dave wrote:

If snarling rush hour traffic is a capital crime, there's a road repair crew that should share the fate of that dog.

Yeah, just pick a PennDot construction location.

They shouldn't have killed the dog though.

[SESDguy]

Yeah that traffic in Courdelane Idaho is a real barn burner. There were probably six or seven cars an hour running that stretch! Feel bad for the pug, but public saftey has to be first.

[Yorkie]

Pugs are short haired dogs, I didn't know that short haired dogs fur got matted.

[KLE]

Yorkie wrote:

Pugs are short haired dogs, I didn't know that short haired dogs fur got matted.

You obviously don't know much about Pugs. Their hair may be short, but there is a TON of it. They shed ALL the time. It would be very easy for the hair to become matted.

[Chris Hutton]

I hear Michael Vick is now running for Kootenai County sheriff!

[barb]

why not stop traffic...the poor thing was just afraid...i am a pug owner, and although i agree human life is very important...so is that of our four legged friends...i think this was a bad call

[Dunder Mifflin]

I whole-heartedly agree that the life of a person comes before the life of an animal. Well, most people at least. What does not make any sense is that the article stresses public safety and then goes on to say that "law enforcement officers stopped traffic in both directions on the highway, and after failing again to catch the pug, they shot it." How is the safety of the public in danger if all the traffic is at a standstill? If that, in fact, was the case when they shot the dog, I suggest that they need to work on their problem-solving skills.

[Brian Spilner]

woof! woof! POW! hahahaha!

[YorkTransplant]

marlin wrote:

How does a little Pug dog run around in
70 mph traffic at the height of rush
hour for the amount of time for "all" of
these people to arrive and not get hit?
Something just doesn't sound right.

You're absolutely right! Contact internal affairs, I'm sure there's some sort of conspiracy between the cops and the dog.

[Pity]

Hope that when your children run onto the roads, they are run over many time left to rot and die...try eating those little bastards...you people are