I met a police officer who had to train a Belgian Malinois and he said that it was more involved and much more difficult for him than training the German Sherpherds which he had trained. He said it required much more patience and even still his BM had attacked him on the firing range once.
Some men do not know when they should not be around a dog anymore. They don't realize when they have humanized the dog to the point that they think the dog is mocking them and is being spiteful. I personally think a woman handles these moments in a more healthy way than a man. The response of an unstable man is to shake violently or beat the animal. Men have even done this to children.
I find the entire incident described in this article to be very believable and very sad. That the officer was found guilty of a lesser charge shows that others saw him as having gotten out of control.
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