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Hello Everyone,
My first post here, other than my introduction one.
Some really good information on dealing with dogs. As with everyone else here my team has had very poor results shooting dogs with handguns, all that have been hit with handguns rounds ended up having to be finished with a shotgun, we currently use #4 buckshot. We've only had one shot with a rifle, a 5.56, it was a pit bull and it stopped him with one shot. Most of our dog shootings have been done with a shotgun and they have been pretty effective. Although one pit bull was nearly cut in half and he was still coming.
We've used a couple other things to send the dogs away when the didn't need to be killed- a couple times when the dogs were outside we used flashbangs with good success, the dogs tunred and ran and they never came back. But that was outside and they had an escape route, don't know if that would be the same if it was inside. Recently one of the teams had a pit bull that was acting aggressive but not coming at the team. The Less Lethal officer hit him a couple times with a 40mm sponge round, he had lethal coverage there with him, and the dog ran and never bothered the team again.
We haven't shot any dogs with a Taser. We carry it as a less lethal option for humans but we think it would be pretty hard to hit a dog with both probes.
A couple times some of our guys have used OC on the dogs. While it has done a good job of getting rid of the dogs it also contaminated the rest of the team and none of them had their masks on. Needless to say the guys know not to do that anymore.
Just a few thigns we run into,
Brendan
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