I know

( And thanks for the other rec )

That would be letting the deputy off lightly considering killing a police officer is a capital offense.

I shudder to think of the charges.

I just can't wrap my mind around a 23-year veteran "forgetting" the dogs.

It makes no damned sense.

Too bad members of the public won't get the sympathy and forgiveness that I am certain will be afforded to this officer.

If I accidentally did that to my dog there would be criminal charges and my act would be featured on the local tv channel.

Didn't he notice their dinner sitting uneaten? Nobody at the end of the leash when they went out for their late night pee?

No, not possible. That's not "shit happening." That's being shitfaced drunk or something equally stupid.

And there should be criminal charges.

I have owned large dogs. You do not forget one, let alone two, 100 lb dogs.

I've owned big dogs all my life, a dog will not let you forget, they are a part of your life.

I have a buddy who is a cop. He says 3/4 of the his force (all married) have young girlfriends who started out as "suspects".

They referred to him as the person who was responsible for them, so I figured they were not part of his daily life and routine.

At the end of the work day, as well as the beginning. Whether they lived inside his house or in a kennel somewhere. If he was responsible then they certainly were part of his daily life and routine.

Again...he didn't notice nobody came running for food, for water, to go out to pee?

I don't even know how to respond to this one.

A tragedy to think how the dogs suffered, waiting for the human they trusted - probably completely.

At least they had each other in the last moments.

Gonna go pet my puppy now and go start the day.

Cheers, Vinca, and DU

Those poor animals...what an awful way to die! And these are the police who teach/warn people not to leave their animals in a hot car!

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Dogs or children are not to be left in cars in summer.

The stupid pig!

I have mutts, always mutts w/o $20,000 dollars worth of training.

I carry spare keys & leave the a/c on w doors locked anytime I leave the vehicle & temp is over 70 deg F!!!

I have read where cops hire dimwits so they don't quit w/ all the training it takes.

This is what u get when u hire people that should be working in charitable orgs who take care of brain damaged & blind people.

This pig should loses his job, dog replacements & funeral out of his retirement pension & charged for animal cruelty.

"Inadvertent" would be driving down the highway at the speed limit in a well-maintained truck during clear conditions and sunlight, and a kid on a bike darts from a side street in front of you, and you hit the guy. That is "inadvertent". Leaving your dogs in your car, with the windows up, going into your home, having some beers, having some dinner, etc. and never thinking of your dogs, that is NOT "inadvertent".

Translation "covering butt ".

His only chance is to be so sorry and so contrite.

I hope he goes through hell for this.

i would get prison time! fucking idiot should lose his job

from Texas you do realize that not all of us are in-bred mouth breathers whose knuckles drag the ground, right?

It just pisses me off that we do have so many of these type stories. I guess part of it is just being a state with high population.

Did you know that Houston was voted coolest city in the country by Forbes magazine recently? Low cost of housing and jobs I guess ... although I will say I love this city with it's warm climate, theatre, professional sports, museums etc ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2012/07/26/houston-tops-our-list-of-americas-coolest-cities-to-live/

I get frustrated living here, because it does feel like I am surrounded sometimes

and I do know we put up with a lot of Texas bashing. I don't like the knuckleheads who surround us but I do like the big cities in Texas

(Houston) elected an openly gay woman as mayor. There is a glimmer of hope.

Just within the last couple of weeks, the same thing happened in Tucson.

He should face the same animal cruelty and neglect charges that you or I would face had we left a dog inside a hot car to die. This is just unbelievable.

Especially the two dogs he was assigned to?

Is estimated to be about $40,000!

So this is no "little" matter!

How in the hell do you leave not one, but two, dogs in a car overnight without noticing it? Something is fishy about this story. I wonder if drugs and/or alcohol weren't to blame for the Deputy's lack of attention to detail.

There is not excuse for his actions (or should I say inaction).

he should be treated like anyone else who killed a police dog through negligence.

I live here, and there's been a move since 2005 to get to "no kill". It is incredible the attitudes that I come across from people in this city. There are many people here who simply do not believe that animals feel, hurt, need, etc. There are regular cases of cruelty, and little justice when those cases come to court.

There are dogs chained all over this city without access to food, water or shelter. It's already been 108 degrees once this summer, and it was down to 16 degrees last winter, so weather conditions can get pretty harsh.

The pound was once killing 50,000 animals a year.

There are also many good people who are doing all that we can to move this city forward and change these attitudes, but the change is slow and I find, personally, that we get a lot of "lip service" from the bureaucrats without much action or real change. The amount of money that has been thrown at this problem is staggering, yet there never seems to be any real progress.

I cannot imagine someone leaving two, big dogs in a van for them to die. "Devastated by the tragic accident"??? Well, I reckon he should be!

BARC here in Houston is perpetually horrible. But I do agree with both you and the mayor of Houston that education is a big thing - as you say folks don't always have a very enlightened view of animals here. It's very sad.

I would NEVER trust him to have my back. He let two fellow enforcement comrades die a terrible death--he cannot be trusted on the force.

What the hell is going on?

I'm supposed to believe this cop is paying attention to his job?

these K-9's are valuable members of the community, highy trained & expensive. this makes me ill.

fire this moran, now.

Suffice to say that whomever is responsible needs to NEVER be in a position where they have anything to do with dogs again.

I would also like them to have even a short taste of what they put those poor creatures through, say half an hour. No doubt they would be begging for the mercy they denied their innocent helpmates.

To make a device that activates an alarm when motion is detected in a closed vehicle. It would need to eventually be able to sense life in a car, but for now motion would do. Especially with dogs.

They have cars now that the horn goes off when the tire is full of air. So it has to be possible, and not too expensive. Just an led light beam that if broken sounds the car alarm.

This officer should be charged and jailed. Not allowed to "retire", no administrative leave, no desk duty. Charged and Jailed. He killed to police dogs, he should be treated as any other criminal would be.