Most of the cops I've met and talked to around here are from places like Chicago, New Jersey, Detroit, etc. City boys from seriously anti gun places.

I, for one, ain't planning on taking chances that one of them is going to understand putting an animal out of its misery and since one is risking their second amendment rights I'm just going to have to live with an animal dying horribly on their own.

Now if I lived in a more rural county with officers/deputies that are farm bred local boys, I'd be more willing to take care of an animal.