I witnessed a man training his Pit Bull to attack in front of a Cole Harbour School. He was trying to show off too his friends that his dog would keep attacking the rope until he told the dog otherwise, when the dog let go without permission he beat the dog. I don’t believe anyone should be afraid of Pit Bulls, It’s the incompetent irresponsible owners that we should be afraid of. I called the cops to deal with the situation, and they let the man go. The cops called me and said that they know the man was training this dog for dog fighting because of his prior record, but the man when confronted said that “He was just playing with his dog’, and we have no proof otherwise so there’s nothing we can do”. I’m an eye-witness is that not enough? There are video cameras in front of the school, try checking them? I am repulsed by this incident and the police officers reaction. When this dog is told by it’s owner to attack somebody’s child or dog maybe then they will do something.
—Pissed Off Pit Bull Owner!!
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2009.
the police can’t arrest people with out proof, sounds like the police believe you well enough and I am sure the owner was training his dog for fighting. But he doesn’t have to prove he WASN”T training him for fighting, the police have to prove he WAS.
as far as being an eye witness, its your word against his and what looks like ( and probably is ) fight training in your eye can be subject. He can just say ” judge i was just playing with my dog and the eye witness jumped to a false conclusion” and its case closed. I don’t blame the police for not moving forward with all that paperwork for no pay off and to potentiall put their carees in jeopardy for making shotty arrests and opening up the police to wrongful arrest complaints and possible law suits.
thank god we have a justice system in this country that required more than just finger pointing to file criminal charges.
and OP – for the record i believe he was training his dog to attack, that i don’t doubt for a second.
Agreed lovinglife…it sucks, but the system we have is better than the alternative. Eventually these buffoons get caught anyway. As the cops said, he already has a record.
There is nothing illegal in training your dog to attack, fetch, or tracking or whatever. As it has been said there is not enough evidence to warrant charges that would actually stick. Now if the dog attacks that’s another story.
OP take heart, the police have informed you they know this character and no doubt have a file on him and watching.
OP, thanks for at least taking the time to alert the authorities. I am also a Pit Bull owner and I take every chance I can get to education anyone who will listen on the joys of this breed. People like the that guy make my skin crawl – and make my job a lot more difficult.
Here’s hoping an innocent person – or dog – isn’t gravely injured because of it all.
at least you did something, other than stabbing the guy in the brain and taking the dog to be rehabilitated you did all you could.
agreed… the effort performed on your part is all really you can do short of taping him at a dog fight or something.
Most people would just walk away and try to forget idiots like that are in the world.
Hey man, cops around here spend their time giving out tickets to people who pick up garbage in the neighborhood and have the audacity to leave it on the curb for collection… or enforcing the anti-crime brilliance behind the “squeegee kid act”… and they have politicians who think its a-okay to dump shit into the harbour for YEARS at a time… it’s no wonder this town is so dam “friendly”
I grew up in Cole Harbour. Both high schools have cameras in front, so they could have easily looked at the video. The cops are a fucking joke out there. I have to say though that you usually don’t see the dog fighting thing so much in Cole Harbour as you do in Preston. What’s strange is just yesterday I witnessed a teenage kid just straight up punching his dog in the ribs, in a poor attempt at disciplining him. I plan on reporting the incident to the police first thing Monday morning and if that doesn’t work, I will be contacting the SPCA. I can’t stand that sort of bullshit. It was definitely a shitty situation, the kid was too young to have any sort of confrontation with him myself, but old enough that his parents should have engrained in him at least a little bit of common sense. It was a pit-bull as well, by the way.
are we talking HRM police or RCMP in these areas?
anyone?
The RCMP are who are in Cole Harbour.
They also used to have a liason officer in both of the schools. Of course, that was 10 years ago.
I know they guy, hes a fucking fool. I went to said mentioned school, trust me theres a lot more going on at that path to worry about then buddy and his dog.