Not A Crime To Make Faces At A Police Dog

Charges have been dropped against a Vermont woman who was arrested for cruelty to a police animal and resisting arrest after she allegedly made faces at the police dog.

The woman reportedly put her face near the window of the police car and made faces at the dog because she was angry that the officer would not take a statement from her.  She claimed she had been assaulted the day before.  The officer would not take her statement because she appeared to be intoxicated at the time.  He offered to take the statement from her at a later time instead.

The woman pulled away as she was arrested and at the police station registered a .21 on an alcohol breath test.

The charges have been dropped because the dog can not testify and without the animal cruelty charge the resisting arrest charge would have been hard to prosecute.