Airport security dog shot by police in New Zealand

[Catherine]

The dog got loose at 4am. Most airports don't allows arrivals and departures before 6am.  They certainly wouldn't have a lot of arrivals and departures at that time. They had a couple of hours before too many flights would have been interrupted. If they had worked in an orderly fashion they should have been able to catch the dog. They certainly had time to find a tranquilizer gun before the dog started causing delays.

He wasn't on the runways anyhow. Surely they could have cornered him in an area.
The airport uses dogs for security. Why didn't they have a plan in place to deal with this problem. Lack of planning and poor response to a problem resulted in the dog losing his life.

I think the other dog handlers should take their dogs away from the airport and stay away. This airport doesn't deserve the help of even one working dog.