This is me in one of my first obedience classes with Chloe: “All right, we’re going to do this, aren’t we? We’re going to listen to daddy and do this right and Rick will be impressed, won’t he. We want Rick to be impressed even if we don’t care what daddy thinks, do we. All right, here goes, are you listening? SIT!” Rick Manley of the Phoenix Field and Obedience Club scowled at me. “Ensminger, what are you telling the dog to do? If I can’t tell, the dog probably can’t either. Stop gibbering.” I thought he was being a bit sensitive. It couldn’t...
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Early Police Dogs in Belgium and New York
There could be said to be two strands in the origin of police dogs in the United States. Primarily in southern states, dogs were used for tracking escaped convicts and criminals after the Civil War, reaching judicial attention by the 1890s. These dogs, mostly bloodhounds, bayed at a suspects if they found them at the end of the trail, generally without biting. Bloodhounds were not then owned by the police departments, but rather were the property...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Should a Bomb Dog's 'Interest' Give Probable Cause to Search A Car Near Protests at an International Conference?
In November 2003, 34 nations gathered in Miami for a summit of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Expecting mass demonstrations, the Miami Police Department (MPD) closed roads and businesses and solicited the assistance of dozens of other law enforcement agencies. MPD had reason to worry. Two years before an FTAA summit in Quebec had resulted in injuries to 101 police officers. MPD had received over 30 bomb threats related to the summit.On...
Friday, October 15, 2010
Will Complying with Federal Rules for State Services Encourage States to Drop Separate Laws on Service Animals?
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Guide Dogs in the Dance of Death
The Dance of Death (Danse Macabre, Totentanz) was an allegory in poems and paintings from the late middle ages into the Renaissance. One figure included in the illustrations and the poems was that of the blind man, sometimes depicted with a dog. The woodcut here is from the 1649 edition of Matthaus Merian’s Todten Tantz. The lines above the illustration are the words of Death, “I cut you off from your guide.” The blind man responds below, in the...
Monday, October 4, 2010
Dog Pound Nightmares
Those of us with pets have fleeting fears about pounds. At least I do. What if my dog got loose and was picked up by an animal control official somewhere and taken to a pound. She has a chip but a recent check found that it had moved from the back of her neck, where it was originally implanted, to a position above her right foreleg. It took the vet five minutes to find it. Would an animal control officer spend the time necessary to find the...
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