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Another day, another dog shot by trigger happy police in Mooresville, North Carolina where the local police have a public info officer that only works Monday-Friday. The PIO could not be reached for comment as the dispatcher says the matter is still under investigation. Melissa Loper couldn’t be reached for comment either, but her posts show the dog and family are recovering.

How long before dog owners come back shooting? Trends have backlash and fallout, give it a few months, a cop somewhere will die after shooting a dog.

If you’d like to call MPD and share your feelings.

Mooresville PD Contact info: 704-664-3311 Public info officer [email protected]

Ms. Loper placed a description of Saturday’s, Oct. 18′s events on her Facebook.

Yesterday was a terrible day for me. An officer from The Mooresville Police Department came to my house bent down on his knee and called my chihuahua to come to him out of my yard. Well she started walking to him…and so did my pit bull. The officers backup started to pull out her taser but before she could the other officer that was on his knee managed to stand up and fire his 9mm gun at my pit bull. Hitting her 3 times AND busting the back window out of my Suburban. One of the bullets went into Pinchs paw and shattered the bones. The others were deep muscle wounds in her other legs. Thank GOD we found a vet to help us with her. She had surgery last night and is going to be okay. But here’s my question…What would you do if an officer fired his gun at your house just to hit a dog who was not threatening him. He shot at her just because she was a pit bull. And he was scared. My chihuahua would’ve bit him before pinch would’ve. Even the vets said she was a wonderful dog and very gentle even with half her paw blew off. The MPDs claim person has already called about fixing my back window on my truck but I feel like they should pay the vet bill too!!! He called them out of their yard. Then shot my baby girl. Because he was scared. Keep in mind this was during the day in the middle of subdivision. I’m still shaken up by it all. I’m just thankful my baby girl is gonna be ok. But again I think MPD should pay for her vet bill. What do y’all think??

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