(AP) A prosecutor has dropped charges against a woman who was arrested for staring at and making faces at a police dog.

“Prosecuting a woman for `staring’ at a police dog is absurd,” said her lawyer. “People are allowed to make faces at police dogs and officers to express their disapproval. It’s constitutional expression,” said public defender Kelly Green, who represented Jayna Hutchinson. More…

Would a dog even know if you were making faces at it?

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Dogs know because they’ll start barking at you.  That’s why it’s so much fun.

yeah, my husband’s dog gets all excited and hyper if you make faces at her.

Wow. That’s insane.

When Lulu (my 14 year old dog) was younger, she would pass a lot of gas.

If you looked at her and asked, “Lulu, did you fart?”, she would look at you and growl.  We tried saying it when there was no evidence and she would just ignore us.  I guess she just didn’t like having it pointed out to her when she needed to break wind.

So yeah, they know stuff.

That is ridiculous.

What’s insane are the minds of the people that thought they should charge her in the first place.