He is friendly but does act tough,” she said in the message. Someone, Shughart said later, apparently opened their gate to let the dogs out.Īs her daughters started to search for the dogs, Shughart posted photos of Gunner online and asked for help finding him. The story began Wednesday morning, when someone knocked on Shughart’s door and told her daughters that their dogs were running loose. We will pursue this to the fullest extent because Gunner’s life mattered and he never deserved any of this.” We work closely with our local police departments and appreciate them emensely. “If a dog is biting a catcher pole in fear and has pooped itself in fear you do not need to shoot them.”Īn hour later, the rescue group amended the message, noting: “We want to be clear that our anger is not directed at our local police departments but rather this specific officer who has shown how little he values dogs lives. We intend to take any action necessary to prevent this in the future,” the message said in part. If you have additional information on this incident we would like to receive it. The dog has no history of aggression and the incident was witnessed and videoed. “This afternoon one of the Davis Dog Farm Dogs alumni was shot in cold blood in Lebanon county. He made me feel safe, he made me comfortable.” Gunner GunnerĪ representative of Davis Dog Farm, where Gunner was adopted, also posted Wednesday about the incident on Facebook. “As much as I’m going to miss him … he was also my protector. “All of my good sneakers have no soles.”īecause of his breed, he can look a little scary, she admitted, and “if you walked by my fence he would bark. “He would only eat the soles out of my shoes,” she recalled. “He’d swim in the creek and play in the water.” He shook people’s hands and liked to play with other dogs at the dog park. He was stubborn, she said, and he nudged people with his nose for attention. “Full of energy, and if you didn’t know him you would be scared but he was the biggest lovable goofball to have around.” Gunner was “a curious little puppy,” she said. He was about 14 weeks old at the time, she said – mostly German shepherd, she added, with some Labrador retriever and a bit of husky thrown in. Shughart said she and her family adopted Gunner about a year ago from Davis Dog Farm, a nonprofit all-breed rescue group based in Grantville. I don’t know what their protocols are, but my dog’s not here. I’m not going to say this guy’s at fault,” she told LebTown. She doesn’t “want to point fingers” at the police, Shughart said, but she wants to know why the responding officers did what they did. She also said she met an officer who said he was the one who shot her dog, although she didn’t share his name. Shughart said police told her they called Humane Society and state dog warden for assistance, but neither was available at the time. Lebanon city police Chief Todd Breiner did not respond Wednesday or Thursday to requests for comment on the incident. I’m not mad at them for doing their job if they thought they were threatened. I wasn’t there, I’m not trying to bash the cops who were there. “It doesn’t warrant shooting him,” Shughart told LebTown. The Lebanon woman said she isn’t trying to “bash the cops” and realizes she might not know the full story yet, but she knows that her 1-year-old pup Gunner – who had escaped from her yard earlier Wednesday morning – was restrained and wagging his tail when an officer drew his sidearm and fatally shot the dog in the head. Jacklyn Shughart wants to understand why a Lebanon city police officer shot and killed her 15-month-old dog. If you were accidentally unsubscribed from the newsletter, please email us at Close Whoops! We couldn't process your signup request.
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