A Mississippi cop has been demoted from the K9 unit to patrol duty after taking his retired four-legged partner to an animal shelter to be put up for adoption.

Ringo sniffed out drugs for the Jackson Police Department for nine years until the dog's retirement this past October. Nevertheless, the Labrador retriever had to be rescued recently from the Webster Animal Shelter in nearby Madison, Miss., by the man who trained him to be a police dog, WLBT-TV reported Friday.

“I don’t know that there is a word for being both hurt and mad, but I was both of them. And I still am," Randy Hare, owner of the Alpha Canine Training Center, told the station. "You know it’s just, you just don’t turn your back on something like that--that’s been with you for nine years.”

Jackson police officials said they didn’t know Ringo’s handler, Carl Ellis, had taken the canine to a shelter, the Clarion-Ledger reported.

"The Jackson Police Department respects and holds our canines with high regard just as we do any other officer within our department," a police spokesman said, according to the paper. "They are family, and we do not feel they deserve anything less than a loving home in retirement."

The department said Ellis had been reassigned to a patrol car.

An Oct. 23 post on the Jackson Police Department’s Facebook page took note of the retirement of Ringo and another police dog, Alpha, “from a job well (done).”

"They served the city very well,” Detective Anthony Fox said then, according to the Clarion-Ledger. “Hundreds of thousands of dollars, uncountable seizures with narcotics. They can be a dog now."

Sad story...

No class for the handler...

All the money and drugs" he's " skimmed because of that dog...the douche could've afforded an ad in the paper and found him a good home.....

Instead...the prick just dumped him off at the animal shelter...

Do a financial audit on the handler...his house paid off with no mortgage, his two paid off cars, his girlfriends apartment in his name and his 4-5 safe deposit boxes w/ yearly fees paid off in cash till 2040...
should "tell the rest of the story"....

Pull a PAUL HARVEY ON THE HANDLER....

In a perfect world this POS would live out the rest of his life in a 6x8 cage and fed cold crap once a day.Being demoted to patrol is no punishment at all.Fired and blackballed from LE forever is a punishment I could accept.

I like dogs, too... more than a lot of people, I dare say... but you guys are overreacting.

agreed ...

LMAO! Spoken like a true cat person.

I have a cat. I don't like them any more or any less than dogs. They're animals... pets.

Because of this and the publicity the dog will no doubt have a better care taker than he had before.

Slept on it last night and came to the same conclusion..........former K9 Officer Ellis is a POS. He should have told his employer that he did not want the dog rather than taking Ringo and then drop kicking the dog to a shelter. I'm willing to bet that the PD would have made other arrangements for Ringo that did not include being turned over to a shelter.

Yes.. Ellis needs an azz whooping... 😟

Do your shelters immediately euthanize them or something? Or, much like ours, do they attempt to find them a good home first? What's the difference if the department or the shelter finds the dog a new home?

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Our area shelter is like club med for animals. I daresay it's nicer than a homeless shelter.

If someone has a pet for 9 years that they work closely with and they don't develop a close bond with that animal, someone in that relationship is definitely a butthole... Possibly a psychopath... Not saying for sure it's the human... I've met some dogs that were psychopaths...

I think the perfect ending to this story would be that the dog has to be put down because of some horrific trait that the handler knew he had... Like he won't stop violently humping people of color... Or he's a testicle nipper... Or he teabags people when they're sleeping...

yup!

Not overreacting at all.......I like dogs,which is way more than I can say for most people.

Mickey:
Good dags. D'ya like dags?

Tommy:
Dags?

Mickey:
Dags. Ya like dags?

Mrs. O'Neil:
Yeah, dags.

Tommy:
Oh, dogs. Sure, I like dags. I like caravans more.