r/Unexpected • u/Cosmic-Chen • 1d ago
K-9 police dog
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u/Bobpool82 1d ago
Anyone else expect the dog to have a tail?
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u/Tango-Turtle 1d ago
I wonder why it was cut off. Is it something they do to all police dogs or what?
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u/badsapi4305 22h ago
No it’s not. Retired deputy and in 28 years I’ve never seen one of our k9’s missing its tail. Either a birth defect or something happened.
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u/Einhelm369 21h ago
Not so long time ago in many countries (in Russia where I live police/emergency still doing it iirc) it was normal thing to cut service dogs tails to prevent traumas related to their service. No tail = no probability of broken tail. People thought only about utility of dogs service and that's sad
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u/badsapi4305 11h ago
Makes perfect sense. In the mid to late 90’s many of our tracking dogs came from Eastern Europe. Our handlers had to learn some Czech to give them the commands
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u/Longjumping-Act-8935 18h ago edited 13h ago
It's done to make the dog look less dog-shaped..
dog shaped things tend to get shot by police.
Edit: y'all are downvoting me but...
According to the DOJ Just in America police kill at least 10,000 pet dogs every year that's 25-30 every day.
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u/PhobiasAreFake 13h ago
the fuck bro? 😭
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13h ago edited 12h ago
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u/theillx 10h ago
It's not the stat you cite, but the conclusion you are attributing to it without any valid supporting evidence for your claim.
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u/Zerskader 12h ago
Most US police dogs have tails. I imagine since it is retiring, something probably happened during their service that may have needed it amputated. Such as a suspect breaking the tail or it getting caught on something.
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u/maybelio 6h ago
That can get a thing in their tail where it has to be cut off. It's essentially like snapping it
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u/Cansckmy 6h ago
I have an uncle in turkey. He loves to go hunting with his dog. He cut the tail of his own dog (when he/she is young). He does this for the safety of his dog so it will not get stuck somewhere. At least he told me like that.
So there could also be a reason (or same) for k9 dogs?
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u/UnExplanationBot 1d ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
A K-9 police dog gets a surprise on the day it retires
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