The Ledge - A Dog Named Parrot

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/parrot.asp

(This first link has a lot of details about this story)

http://www.change.org/petitions/dema...at-dc-festival

(The second link is a petition for corrective action against Officer Scott Fike)

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/7459/parrotn.jpg

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Quote:

On September 12, 2010, at the Adams Morgan festival in Washington, D.C., a dog named Parrot got into an altercation with a poodle. The caretakers had broken up the fight when D.C. police arrived on the scene. According to witnesses and photographs, the officer pinned Parrot to the ground with his knee, then hurled him down a concrete stairwell, and finally pulled out his weapon and shot him.

There is no evidence that Parrot was a threat, especially since photographs showed that he was contained. Stories of police shooting dogs are in the news all too often. It is not only a cruel death for the dogs, but it is devastating for their families and dangerous for people in the vicinity of the gunshots.

The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department needs to investigate Parrot's shooting and take appropriate action against the officer. They also need to prevent future tragic canine-police encounters by establishing non-lethal force continuums for handling animals and mandatory canine behavior training.