OAKLAND -- By their very nature, police procedures to handle a
crime in progress run contrary to recommended techniques for
approaching a dog in someone's backyard -- animal officials
suggest making lots of noise to let a dog know you're entering
the yard and standing up straight as you move closer to the
animal, but police need to move silently to sneak up on a
burglar, and crouch low when passing windows.  "See, that's a
problem for us," Oakland police Chief Anthony Batts said Friday
morning at a news conference at the East Bay SPCA to announce a
new partnership between the police department and the SPCA,
training officers in animal behavior.  The program comes in
response to the fatal police shooting of a family dog in the
Oakland hills Sept. 28 while officers investigated a burglar
alarm, as well as the shooting of a deer in an East Oakland
neighborhood last May.  "Those techniques are completely
opposite of what we need to do for officer safety if there's a
bad guy inside the house," Batts said. "We defi