Perez should have the same fate as his victim, paralyzed from the waist down, eye for any eye baby.

Why isn't the penalty for injuring a police canine the same as if it were a human cop? It should be.

They need to put the poor dog down. Think of the torture that dog will go through not being able to walk. It's not fair to the animal at all.

jibbyjoe, I thought that too. But if they put the dog down, which is not that unheard of for a dog in that condition, do the charges go up for killing a police dog? If so, would the defendant's lawyer put a stop to putting him down? It's a lose-lose for the law and that poor dog.

Bottom line is that people can grow even closer to their dogs than other people. I know I have which is why I no longer have a dog. I don't want to lose another one. Just don't want to go through that again. Any thought of putting the dog down should have only one consideration. What is best for the animal. I don't care what happens to the guy that stabbed him. I am very simpathetic to officer Jorgensen though for the loss of his friend.

if the person who injured the dog, gets a job after he is released from Prison, will the President call and congratulate that company for hiring him?

A gross misdemeanor for this crime is a gross injustice.

Even if you're in the process of committing a crime, don't you still have the right to protect your life? An attacking dog isn't the same as an officer saying "halt".

My dog has recently been going through rehab at the U of M for some ligament problems. We have seen Major there several times. I'd like to answer a couple of comments. 1) There is work underway to upgrade the penalty for harming (but not killing) a K9 cop. I'm guessing that this just hasn't come up before because of advances in rehabbing dogs are pretty recent. Probably before now serious wounds were more likely to be fatal, and a fatal wound to the K9 cop would be a felony. 2) Major does not need to be put down. He has good use of his front legs and can have a person walk alongside him with a sling under his belly to support his hind end. He is alert and cheerful and interested in what is going on. I don't have the medical knowledge to say what his internal issues are, but, from a lay person's perspective, he appears to be making the best of his limitations. He's a sweet dog, and I'm so glad that he is getting good care!

"Even if you're in the process of committing a crime, don't you still have the right to protect your life?"--First, you have the right not to commit the crime. Second, there's not predicting what can happen during your crime, whether or not a dog attacks or something else happens. In the end it goes back to my first point in that you have the right not to commit the crime. Had you not been there committing it, then you could've avoiding this. Being that this person is too stupid to figure that out, he deserves what comes with it.