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I still want to hear the officers side of things and learn why he felt that he had to draw on the OP's friend, who we assume was unarmed and non-aggressive. This will determine what "side" I come down on. It doesn't seem reasonanble to draw your weapon and point it at the first person you see when responding to a Domestic Disturbance. Now if the original caller had reported that a weapon was involved in the Domestic (or in possession of a male involved in it) then that makes things a whole different issue.

My final opinion will be one of the as follows depending on what we learn from the officer:
Learn to close the gate behind you locking your dog in the fence and ..
A: the officer response was appropiate because he understood that .... OR
B: the officer was blatently gung-go and needs more training
AND the officer involved as well as the officers in his department might want to consider tossing in some money and getting the man another dog (Its the right thing to do and good PR never hurts in the long run).

Now remember that we are only seeing one side of this story, with that said based on what I have read I have to question the officers state of mind. Lets forget about the dog for the moment and look at what happened before the dog came into play. The officer pulls up to a scene where he believes a Domestic Disturbance is happening, guy comes from around back to great him and makes no threating moves, he draws gun and points it at guy. I know that Domestic Disturbance calls are extremely dangerous but drawing a weapon and pointing it at someone with out provocation is not something I think is taught to our officers. Now as I said before we are only seeing one side of this story and I would really like to read/see/hear the officers side as well.