Glenn Rogers of New Jersey, a dog trainer with 26 years of police officer experience, explained to “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday that he was not shocked by the study’s discoveries.
Rogers stressed that while many dogs offer home protection in the case of unwanted intruders, the new study discovered that neighborhoods with high canine populations provided more eyes on the ground — which makes sense. These neighborhoods have lower rates of crimes ranging from muggings, break-ins, car thefts, and even rapes and looting.
“What’s involved is the people who are walking their dogs in the neighborhood,” Rogers announced throughout his live segment.
“They become almost like a neighborhood watch,” Rogers went on.
“They’re meeting their neighbors, and they’re getting to know their neighbors and getting to see what’s normal in the neighborhood if they do it every day.”
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Throughout his time in law enforcement, Rogers stated that formal neighborhood watch groups occasionally tend to “fizzle out” over time.
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Regular dog walking is a different notion, though.
“When you’ve got a dog, you might be taking the same walk for 15 years,” Rogers stressed on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” Rogers, who has worked with K-9 units in the US Army and the Tinton Falls Police Department in New Jersey, is now a head trainer with At Home Dog Training.
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It’s a professional dog training service in Farmingdale, N.J. The veteran dog trainer brought along his training assistant, Georgia, a 5-year-old Hungarian vizsla, to the “Fox & Friends Weekend” segment as he discussed the safety benefits she provides. “Georgia is not a trained dog to do any kind of protection work,” Rogers announced.
He stated that she, like most dogs, has “a natural instinct to protect. [Dogs] have the mind of the wolf, which is to protect the pack.”
The Ohio State University study appears to make that point as well.
Researchers observed crime rates in various neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio, where the university is located.
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They found that neighborhoods with higher dog populations had lower rates of homicide, robbery and aggravated assault. These neighborhoods further had higher levels of trust among the residents compared to neighborhoods that had less dogs, the university noted in a press release.
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“Trust doesn’t help neighborhoods as much if you don’t have people out there on the streets noticing what is going on,” announced Nicolo Pinchak, the lead author of the study, who is also a doctoral sociology student at Ohio State University.
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In the university’s press release, Pinchak added that the act of dog walking fills in the neighborhood safety gap that trust alone can’t fulfill. “Dogs have a crime-fighting advantage over cats and other pets that don’t need walking,” Pinchak went on.
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“When people are out walking their dogs, they have conversations, they pet each other’s dogs. Sometimes they know the dog’s name and not even the owners’ [names]. They learn what’s going on and can spot potential problems,” he stated.
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Another interesting fact is that more pets reportedly go missing around the Fourth of July than any other time of the year. That’s what a public service announcement from the Wichita Police Department explained to Kansas residents earlier this year, and it seems that cautioning has likewise been given by Pet Amber Alert, a pet finder service in the ;U.S.
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"July 4 is coming, and we want to remind you how to care for your furry friends," the Wichita Police Department wrote in a Twitter post on Friday, June 24.
"The booming sounds of fireworks elicit a fear or anxiety response in pets," the department persisted in a set of tweets.
The Wichita Police Department noted that dogs "are most at risk for noise aversion" because of their sensitive hearing; cats experience noise-related anxiety as well.
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