Purse Snatch Pupetrator Still At Large
September 3rd, 2008
Dog delinquency is on the up and it’s time to stop making excuses. Since the start of this year a total of 497 cases of muggings, stick-ups, burglaries, assaults and aggravated misdemeanors have been reported in which the prime suspect has been a pooch.
For too long now the prominent spokesdogs among us have sought to downplay the epidemic by blaming the victim:
- “She had it coming, she kept treats in her purse”
- “He made like he threw the ball, but there was no ball”
- “What was he supposed to do when she kept slapping her thighs like that?”
Well, enough is enough. As dogs we are headed for outright anarchy unless something is done to reinstill the kind of canine values that once had half the nation huddled around their TV sets for the latest episode of Lassie. I for one will not sit back in my basket and do nothing as the thugs among us pick at the threads of the finely woven, yet fragile relationship between man and dog…a relationship nurtured over centuries of devoted sheep-herding, sled-pulling, game-retrieving, factory-guarding, bomb-sniffing and slipper-fetching.
Which is why I felt sick to my stomach this morning to hear of yet another purse-snatching, this time in Spartanburg, S.C. An innocent woman on her way to church brutally robbed by the kind of nefarious hound that no doubt has Lassie spinning in her grave.
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