Taser use kills dog during police search

August 29, 2007
Daphne Larkin, Barre Montpelier Times Argus, Vermont

Police said they did not know why the dog died but it was shocked by the device more than once, they said. The first shock apparently wasn't effective to stop the dog so it was shocked more than once and the dog "stopped breathing."

A police spokesperson said police do not know if the dog had a medical condition that contributed to its death. "In this particular case with the dog, (Tasing) turned out to be lethal, and there wasn't any type of autopsy so we don't know why (the dog) died," he said.

They'd better do some toxicology testing on the poor dog to see if he was hopped up on drugs!