Mailman Bludgeons a 10 Pound Yorkie With a Rock, Animal Cruelty Charges Dropped (link fixed)

[Omaha Steve]

Mailman Bludgeons a 10 Pound Yorkie With a Rock, Animal Cruelty Charges Dropped




http://www.care2.com/causes/mailman-bludgeons-a-10-pound-yorkie-with-a-rock-animal-cruelty-charges-dropped.html

by Jessica Ramos September 15, 2014 1:00 pm

Small dogs can be just as aggressive as larger canines, but in theory, their small size makes their dog aggression easier to manage. While many might be quick to laugh the situation off, a story out of Fort Worth, Texas, is no laughing matter.

We might be used to those “dog bites mailman” headlines — but mail carrier smashes the skull of a 10-pound Yorkshire terrier with a rock is a harder headline to swallow. What would possess a grown man to bludgeon a small dog? Apparently, the mail carrier felt threatened by the dog.

Yorkie With Smashed in Skull and Spinal Cord Injury

It started as an average spring day in May in Fort Worth. Lawrence Brown was home when he heard a dog let out a sharp cry in pain across the street. Little did he suspect that it was his family dog, Maxwell. The 10-pound Yorkshire terrier lay in excruciating pain from repeated blows to his small head. Veterinarians who attended Maxwell would later discover that he also had a spinal cord injury beyond repair, apart from a completely shattered skull.

The vets said that there was nothing that they could do for Maxwell. The Browns were forced to put him to sleep.

FULL story at link. There is more to the story. I believe the mailman overreacted. But his after the incident comments says a lot about this.

[newfie11]

1. It seems killing dogs is the new sport

Of police and now mailmen.
10 pound Yorkie might be 8 inches tall. Give me a break!

[elehhhhna]

5. major dog lover here

It also seems that letting ones dog run around off leash is a new sport. At least around here near Houston.

[newfie11]

8. I don't know about this one

But dogs have been killed in their own yard and even so this was a yorkie!

I have 4 Newfoundlands and a 5 lb Pom that love everyone, stranger or not. They are fenced in and also live in the house with us but I still fear for them.

We live very rural so my hope is that would not ever happen.

[elehhhhna]

12. we have a carolina dog

strangest dog I've ever known. the cops would shoot her in a hot second. then they're excited their hackles stand up - from the tail tip to the neck. pretty scary looking but cd's do this when they're happy-excited. It would clearly be misread.


I LOVE newfies btw. How can one NOT?!!

[justiceischeap]

2. There's no link OS. Nt

[KoKo]

3. Sorry...have to Trash This Thread...We are already Stressed Enough........

I'm sure you care about this but I could see this on my Local News or CNN and don't come to DU for MORE Heartbreak.

Sorry...I have to do this .. Enough is Enough!

[Xithras]

4. My uncle recently retired after working as a postman for decades.

He was pretty blunt about the fact that any dog that even APPROACHED him got pepper sprayed. He basically drew a mental perimeter around himself, and any dog that wandered into it got sprayed, whether or not it was acting aggressively toward him. In one instance, the dogs owner ran out and attempted to assault him for it, so the owner got sprayed too (and was arrested for his trouble).

While it's easy to attack him for being callous, keep in mind that he was attacked by three different dogs in his first five years of delivering mail, and zero dogs after he started spraying them.

FWIW, the USPS standard is that a mail carrier may use force against any dog that is "a credible threat or may become a credible threat". By their standards, merely roaming off-leash outdoors is sufficient to label a dog as a credible threat.

[Omaha Steve]

6. I have no problem with your uncle

Lost time for mail carriers from dog bites is a problem. I just wish this carrier had used pepper spray too.

[newfie11]

9. Pepper spray is fine

The dog can live through that.

[Xithras]

11. And he should have had some on him.

Mail carriers are mandated to carry it, and a rather weak version is issued directly by the USPS. My uncle, and virtually everyone he worked with, bought their own (I believe that the stuff he carried was actually rated for bears.) Still, this carrier SHOULD have been carrying it, and even the weak stuff would have sent a tiny little Yorkie fleeing. There's no justification for bashing it with a rock.

[joeybee12]

7. I can't imagine the yorkie posed a threat...

Yeah, he should have been leashed, and the owners are to blame, but the postal worker is a paranoid asshole, IMHO.

[newfie11]

10. Totally agree!!!!!! Nt