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Queensland police shoot pet dog after running it over as distressed residents watch on
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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Perhaps, but why are the police even making that decision about someone else's pet? And in front of the owner, who is a child? This wasn't a wild kangaroo. It's fucked and indefensible.
What’s the alternative here? Just say “aight good luck with that” and bounce to leave the girl with her dying dog? They’re the ones that injured the dog and if the dog had no adult owner nearby they probably made a call that it’s more humane to euthanise it and ends its suffering. As difficult as this would have been for the kid, I can assure you being left with her mangled dog to die a slow agonising death would have been far more traumatic.
Do you think vets and AECs don't exist?
Even assuming they would do this, they would still have to wait for them to arrive, which presumably would prolong the dogs suffering. I’ve not heard of vets doing euthanasia in the street personally either.
Does someone else wanna jump in with questions for the one person in this thread having the audacity to suggest “hey maybe the cops didn’t go into this situation all ‘ay fuck it let’s just blast this dog and get back for smoko’”.