I’m not sure if this is a legitimate legal issue with precedent and all that, I don’t know if this shows up during lsat prep or anything, but I’m pretty sure it should… When big crazy dogs that are known as ‘[insert country] fighting dogs’ bite small, innocent, domestic pet dogs, they should be punished.

No lie. A pet shop owner (PET SHOP OWNER!!!) with multiple ‘exotic’ dogs had in her brood what she referred to as a Japanese Fighting Dog. Said fighting dog has been known to bite other dogs in the past. Yup, there are witnesses. So whenever my Mom or Aunt approach this pet shop, they actually pick up their dog, a teeny maltese, and carry her safely past. Just in case the Fighter, or one of the other exotic canine miscreants, gets out.

A couple of days ago, before my Mom could lift her pup to safety, the Fighter slinked out of the store and attacked. She bit the maltese ten times (the tenth bite was not discovered for 2 days because the other woulds were so fierce) and my mother at least once. The dog is massively traumatized and my Mom needed a tetanus shot.

You know what the worst part of this unnecessary tragedy was? The next day, the pet shop owner had the dog tied up outside where it was nipping at other dogs as they were walked by.

Have you ever seen one of those shows where a dirty cop goes before a judge and the judge says he should be punished especially severely because he’s a cop? Don’t you think a pet store owner should have extra culpability?