Cops in the Doghouse After 'Infantile Prank' With Stray Pooch

Two Ferndale police officers and a lieutenant are expected to face disciplinary action after a prank that went wrong. (Screenshot: WDIV video)

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A resident concerned enough about the wellbeing of a dog to capture the stray and drop it by a metro Detroit police station couldn’t have imagined three officers would face disciplinary action for their handling of the matter.

But that’s the expected outcome of a “prank” Ferndale Police Police Lt. William Wilson called “infantile” and “grade-schoolish, middle-schoolish at best,” WDIV, Channel 4, reports.

Here’s what happened:

A dispatcher initially expressed some interest in adopting the dark-snouted, yellow dog after the resident dropped it by the Ferndale Police Department, but then changed his mind.

Two officers and a police lieutenant apparently didn’t think he’d made the right so decision. So, while on duty, one of the officers drove the dog to a home in Southfield where they thought the dispatcher was staying, and tied the dog to the front door.

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The problem – one of them, anyway – was that the officer had the wrong house.

The other problem was that an alert neighbor, concerned a burglary was in progress, called Southfield police.

Wilson said the prank tied up police resources and said there”s “no excuse whatsoever” for their conduct.

Meanwhile, the dog still needs a home and is being held at a pound in Southfield. Authorities are hopeful the dog’s owner will step forward.