Photos of Saxon the pardoned police dog

[GypsyGSD]

Photos of saxon starting his new life,also the statement that has been issued, by the asesser who saved his life are avialble on www.a1k9 web site in my mind it raises a few questions about what has been happening to the police dogs in south wales police care

[gen2]

I get a 'Bad Gateway' error for www.a1k9

[gen2]

Found it now. It is a .co.uk site.

[gen2]

Here it is as a clickable link for others:

http://www.a1k9.co.uk/PoliceDogSaxonTheFinalAs sessment.asp

[GypsyGSD]

sorry gen and thank you

[Ed Strong]

Thanks for that link, it's nice to have a follow-up. What a beautiful dog.

[wolf63]

reading all that was said you can understand why the decision for him to be put to sleep was made. Whether we agree with it or not, it was a logical step.

I always thought that these dogs were trained to be trustworthy and obedient. Makes one wonder what their training was like and how many other dogs like Saxon there are in South Wales.

Good outcome, I just hope that the right home is found for him and that he lives to a happy old age.

[kita1]

I posted a question about Wales police decision (put it in the news section) to muzzle police dogs!!

Seemingly the training manual for dog handlers includes a statement that using police dogs in criminal work lays them open to claims under the human rights act if criminals are bitten by the dog.

So their solution is to muzzle the dogs and train them to 'headbutt' the criminal and knock him over!! As one ex dog handler says 'a football crowd would just laugh if they saw a police dog wearing a muzzle'.

I think this would seriously endanger the dogs as they could easily be knifed (or less seriously kicked) when on top of the criminal, with no way to defend themselves.

I also think that Wales police are going to find it VERY difficult to get any more dogs donated by breeders.