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Why police always kill animals that escape from any zoo in US instead of shot a tranquilizing?

Is not the animal's fault. The zoo move the animals from their enviroment and if the animal try to escape and hurt people then the only solution is kill the poor animal?

Public Comments

1. Police officers do not have tranquilizer guns and in the case with the tiger it was charging and they could not wait for one, most animals are tranquilized when they have time to wait.
2. In the case in San Fran, the guy with the sleep dart never showed up.
3. Of course not, most escaped animals are tranquilized by zoo staff or natural resources officers. However, any animal that is on the prowl, and has killed, is obviously an immediate danger. The time it takes for a tranquilizer to work on a large animal is the time it would take for somebody else to die. I love animals as much as the next person, possibly even more, but I honestly believe the lives of people are more important. My brother-in-law had to shoot a young bear in a city park some years back. People condemned him in the papers, and on the radio, calling him a vicious brute for shooting the "cuddly bear". However, the bear was coming down the tree, and less than 100 yards away was a residential street. What would those stupid idiots have said if the bear ran onto the street, and attacked a 6-year old kid riding his bike? Lizzette B, a taser will only make a tiger really, really mad, and police officers don't walk about carrying wildlife capture nets.
4. Sounds to me like you should've read the WHOLE story!
5. Next time there is a large vicious animal attacking you, clawing your arms off, we will wait for the tranquilizer so we don't hurt the poor animal.
6. i know just what you mean! i thought the same thing too, its not the animals fault in the first place. but police officers have to do the fastest thing to save themselfs and other humans around them and can not wait to go get a tranquilizing gun or anything like that for the safety of the people. but if there is no one there and the animal is not harming anyone or thing, and is not really doing anything wrong but just out of his cage, then i would hope they would get the tranquilizing gun or do something els to save the animal and cause as least pain as possible because again, ........ it is not the animals fault!
7. "Cos we aren't supplied with tranquilizing rounds. Shouldn't you be more upset with the zoos for letting the animals escape (or perhaps holdign them in the first place), not having an effective gameplan and having to call us poor saps to fix things.
8. And it's the fault of the police and not the zoo for not keeping them contained?!? The police are there to save your butt. They aren't issued tranquilizer guns, nor are they trained to capture wild animals. If an officer doesn't act and immediately stop a violent animal, they are open to tremendous civil liability. The officers do the best they can with the situation they are faced with. If you don't like how animals are brought here and caged for your entertainment, then protest the zoos not the cops who have to clean up the mess.
9. In fact I have seen many stories about using a dart gun on an escaped animal. The recent story from the SF Zoo hit the news because the cops didn't happen to have a dart gun on them and had to make a fast choice. To me, they might well have saved two human lives because they didn't wait for the freakin' dart gun. Which do you value more?
10. What is with all you people who think we carry tranq guns? We carry firearms with real bullets, pepper spray, a baton, sometimes a taser and maybe a supervisor has a bean bag gun or something with rubber bullets........never once have I run into a Department that carries tranq guns/darts. The RARE amount of time we interact with violent/escaped animals is soooooo tiny and the potential for misuse by anyone with a tranq gun far out weighs the occasional animal that has to be put down by us for the safety of the public. That tiger had mauled 2-3 teens and killed another. A tranqulizer takes several minutes (up to 15-20 sometimes) to effectively stop a large animal......how many others would have died if that option was used??? No, it is not the animal's "fault" but it isn't the police's fault nor are we animal control or the Zoo. We are there to protect HUMAN life first, period. It sucks to have to kill an animal, you can't reason with it to make it stop......but it beats me or another Officer dying or letting an innocent civilian die no matter what. I love animals, but in the case of me or them (or a civilian or them) it is gonna be them everytime!!
11. GOOD QUESTION!!!!!!! I wondered the same thing. After all, it was a human's fault that an endangered tiger attacked. But cops are impulsive and reactive. Rather than putting those tasers and nets to good use, they pulled a gun to destroy an endangered animal. True, the tiger attacked a trainer years ago. That should teach everyone where those animals really belong. Shame on those who were not ready to deal with an emergency like this that could have saved that animal and capacitated him to be returned to the wild, rather than kept in a cage. It was the zoo's responsibility to provide for his needs, and if he did not turn out to be a keeper, he should have been responsibly returned to the wild. Who the hell are humans to go around killing animals that attack them, just because they aren't kitty cats? Each living thing has a place in the circle of life, whether he bites or not. Animals were on the planet way before humans came into the picture anyway...
12. Tranquilizer guns aren't very accurate, the round is slow moving, they are slow to reload and they aren't always effective. I love animals more then most people. And I believe tranquilizers should be an option if at all possible. However, most officers aren't issued them and when faced with a man eating tiger, you need to drop it quickly.