The dog man

From the S/Sgt’s Desk –

I didn’t know.

I have a couple of stories on Thor, a police dog from my younger days.

After a bit of a chase with a suspect we were finally able to catch up to him and remove him out of his car. The male was not obliging in the arrest and as a result about three of us were trying to gain some control over him.

The dog man arrived and he jumped out to give us a hand. Thor (police dog) will normally mind his own business unless given the command to act but in the commotion that he was witnessing at his eye level (the knees) all he could see was a struggle and his master was in trouble. Or so he thought.

Thor concluded that his master could use some help as now a bunch of people were beating up on him. So, Thor rushes up to all 5 pairs of feet, four good guys, one bad guy and he dives in there and grabs a foot, gives it a shake and tries to drag the foot out of the crowd.

In the meantime my Cpl starts screaming bloody murder and yells out “He’s biting me.” The rest of us think the bad guy is now biting our fearless leader and we put more pressure on.

Bad guy hears this and he starts yelling “I’m not biting anyone.” By now the Cpl’s pants is ripped and he makes it clear it’s the dog that’s doing the damage.

Dog man takes control and gets the dog out of the picture.

Once the bad guy is secured in the car the Cpl now wants a piece of Thor. Cpl is fuming and was chastising the dog handler with the fact we spent a great deal of money on Thor, intensive training, great intelligence and he can’t see the yellow stripe on our pants and determine that the yellow stripe on the pants means good guy.

At this time the handler explains to the group that Thor is color blind.

The Cpl goes on and says, “so now we take on defective dogs.”

The dog man calms everyone down and explains that all dogs are color blind.

(Long silence)

Then the dog handler says, if you guys still want a piece of Thor I can let him out.

We opted not to harm Thor.