Idaho cop shoots, kills adorable black Lab named Arfee after mistaking him for aggressive pit bull
BY Nicole Hensley
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, July 10, 2014, 4:19 PM
The 2-year-old pup Arfee was hanging out in his owner's van when a trigger-happy cop mistook him for a far larger, more aggressive dog.
An Idaho police officer shot what he thought was a lunging pit bull, but the owner says it was a black Lab named Arfee.
The owner, Craig Jones, was eating lunch at a nearby restaurant in Coeur d'Alene when the shooting happened and can't believe his best buddy is gone.
"This cop left a hole in both that can't be fixed," Jones wrote on Facebook.
"If it wasn't for my desire to face him in court and strip him of his badge, I would probably be at the bottom of the lake."
Loud barking spooked a Coeur d'Alene police officer on Wednesday morning into shooting a dog sitting in the driver's seat of a parked van
after a caller reported a suspicious vehicle parked in the area.
The officer walked right up to the white van with his gun drawn because he believed the driver may have been watching children in the area and trying to lure them, according to a Spokane TV station, KREM-TV.
However, the van was empty of any offenders. There was only Arfee trying to stick his head out of the window barking at the officer's face, so he fired one shot at the pup's chest through the partially closed window.
The dog died shortly after.
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