[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Lazy British Police Dog Relieved of Duties
- From: Holly Woods <hollywoods@xxxxxxx>
- To: InquestGSD@xxxxxxx, legatehill@xxxxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:10:13 -0700
Sounds like a lot of males I know!!
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Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Lazy British Police Dog Relieved of Duties
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> Ok, so Buster likes fries, hanging out with drunks, and laying in the
grass,
> he "goes" when he has to.....maybe he though he was in
college............LOL
> Thanks Edi, this is the best post so far this week......
> Ileana
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> ROTHERHAM, England -- Buster the German Shepherd could have had a great
> career as a British police dog had it not been for one flaw: his
> complete lack of interest in fighting crime.
>
> The canine cop took early retirement after bosses at South Yorkshire
> Police noted his poor motivation -- and a fondness for making friends
> with rowdy drunkards, his former handler said Monday.
>
>
> Buster, who spent some six months on the beat, has been placed with a
> family in Sheffield, near this town in northern England, Police
> Constable David Stephenson said.
>
> "He has a lack of drive and motivation when asked to do operational
> work," Stephenson told The Associated Press. "He's just a lovely pet."
>
> Two-year-old Buster performed well at the start of his 14-week training
> program, but his work gradually deteriorated and the problem worsened
> once he started patrolling the streets, he said.
>
> On one occasion, Buster walked straight past a suspected criminal
> hiding in the garden of a house late at night and went off to cock his
leg.
>
> "I searched the garden myself and found the bloke. The dog had walked
> past the spot where I found him," Stephenson said. "You would have
expected
> him to use his nose to locate him."
>
> During a separate tracking operation, also in the early hours of the
> morning, Buster gave up while in mid-chase across a golf course . "He
> just downed tools," Stephenson said. "He just lay down and there was
nothing
> we could do. He has got a very low drive for finding people."
>
> When patrolling Rotherham at pub closing times -- when the streets are
> often crowded with drunken revelers -- Buster wagged his tail when
> people came up to him and ate their fries, instead of deterring potential
> trouble makers, his former handler said.
>
> "He just showed no interest in doing the job," Stephenson added. "He
> had no fire in his belly."
>
> South Yorkshire Police employs some 50 German Shepherds for tracking
> criminals, searching buildings and helping maintain public order at
> soccer matches and other events.
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