In the fourth call in the Benoit 911 records (http://muchnick.net/Call4.mp3), WWE security consultant Dennis Fagan speculates to the dispatcher about what might have to be done if the Benoits’ two German shepherd guard dogs at the gate cannot be contained. “Would you taser them – put them to sleep?” Fagan asks.
Earlier this blog had wondered why the dogs were loose and guarding the front gate, after Chris Benoit’s text messages had said they were in the enclosed backyard pool area. (Of course, we need the immediate disclaimer that the German shepherds might not have been in the backyard pool area, no matter what Chris said, when you take into account that he was likely deranged at that point.) I even posted photos of the pool area fence and questioned whether the dogs could have gotten over it; some German shepherd owners said no and a canine expert I consulted emphatically said yes.
But as Fagan points out in this 911 call, my earlier question is irrelevant. If people who knew what they were doing had wanted to enter the property at a time earlier than when the Fayette County sheriff’s deputies responded to the Monday afternoon welfare check, they could have done so, dogs or no dogs.
Irv Muchnick