This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, October 19th, 2016. I'm Caleb Brown.

When police interact with dogs, the results are often deadly for those family pets.

Whether it be poor training or wrongly sending police violently into

someone's home, police kill thousands of dogs every year.

Patrick Reisinover is producer of the film of dogs and men chronicling several stories of family pets

gunned down by police.

We spoke last week.

In the beginning of the film, you create a lot of confusion and it's to sort of seems like

it's mimicking the confusion of the people who have these interactions with cops

and in every instance the police end up shooting a dog that turned out not to have been a threat.

That's right. We opened the film with a really intense set of cuts so that you kind of get a grasp on all the stories that we cover throughout the film and the purpose is to in many ways

kind of insofar as we can mirror the experience that people have when you know

police officer shows up at their home

perhaps it's the wrong address perhaps it's you know just through some mistake or

error and they're not expecting the police and then suddenly they're

there and you know your dog starts barking or you know they're coming into your home or you know they're

not going to draw and they're in your yard and then

faster than you can understand what is going on they've pulled out their gun and

shot your dog and you've lost what people now think of as animal family members and it's just

shocking and traumatic and awful and you know it's devastating and naturally the people feel you know they feel the loss

they feel anger they feel shock and what's wonderful though about all of the people that we profiled is, you know, more so than

anger they really feel a desire to change the situation so it doesn't happen to other people.

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