It does.
A long, long time ago, I worked at a kennel that also trained police dogs.
Yes, yes I did wear the 'bite suit', among my shit-cleaning duties and other menial tasks.
Balls, that feels like a lifetime ago.
You were the victim they trained the dogs to attack?
Did you piss someone off to get that duty?
I heard through the grapevine that my friend Opie has been transferred from the prison he was in. Where he completed all the treatment based on the promise of the state to allow him to earn an early release only to cancel the early release 10 days before he was scheduled to be released, with additional parole time in lieu of the time he didn't serve. Anyways I heard they are moving him to a minimum security prison 15 miles away from me here. He has been 300 miles away.
The prison he has been transferred to has a dog training program, where the inmates train dogs to help disabled people live more independently. He loves dogs, he always has had dogs. I would think that being able to spend the days training dogs would be a whole lot better than whatever he was doing in treatment. Plus he is close to home and now his wife can actually go visit him in person instead of talking on the phone every day.
That'll save some money. Prison phone calls are a fucking racket with gouging prices and are horribly unfair. Maine has enacted a law that limits the cost. We're talking like $2 per minute phone calls and shit like that.
And, yeah, I wore the bite suit. It wasn't that I pissed anyone off, it's that it was part of my job duties. It was a horrible job.
And, yes... Yes, it still hurts in the suit. German shepherds have insane bite force. The suit protects you from them breaking your skin, but they still have the compression aspect. So, it hurts - but it's not absolutely terrible. You have areas that are better padded and you try to present those to the dog as much as you can.
The cops sent their German Shepherd to attack me once and just as the dog was lunging to bite my leg I kicked him in the side of the head and knocked its head off course enough that I was just scratched by one tooth instead of clamped down on. Then the cops jumped on me and they pulled the dog back so it wouldn't accidentally bit one of them. That was a close one. I am lucky they didn't charge me with assaulting an officer
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