After reading hundreds of Pit Bull articles about dogs allowed to roam, attacking children and other animals, it now seems the news media is focusing on our breed. Does anyone see a pattern here? It won't be long before most, if not all, of the cities that have banned the aforementioned breed adds our our dogs to their lists.
Can anyone say "Irresponsible Owners" here?
Cop shoots charging Rottweiler dead
By DAVID L. TEIBEL
Tucson Citizen
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A Tucson police officer investigating a report of dogs chasing schoolchildren in an East Side neighborhood this morning shot and killed a Rottweiler.
The dog was shot about 8:30 a.m. when it charged as the officer was getting out of a patrol car.
After the officer fired, the other Rottweiler ran to its home in the 4700 block of East 31st Street, police spokesman Sgt. Decio Hopffer said. That dog was taken away from the scene by Pima Animal Care Center agents.
No one was injured by the dogs, Hopffer said.
An investigation will be conducted to determine if the shooting by Officer Michael Williams, was justified, Hopffer said. Such investigations are standard procedure when an officer fires a weapon.
Williams has been a Tucson police officer since June 1993.
This morning's incident comes three days after a 2-year-old boy was mauled to death by two family Rottweilers at their home near West Valencia Road and South Camino de Oeste.
In Monday's attack, Luis Fernando Romero Jr. was killed by the family pets when he wandered outside to a play area in the front yard, sheriff's detectives said. The home is in unincorporated Pima County.
Those dogs are being held in the Animal Care Center, said its enforcement operations supervisor, Jerry Sanchez. The center is trying to contact the boy's parents to see what should be done with the dogs, he added.
This afternoon, he said, agents were searching to see if the center has any record of the dogs in today's incident or their owners.
Sanchez said he expected the owners, whose names were not immediately available, would be cited at least on a leash law violation.