Actually the "dangerous animals" thing is to DEFINE a dangerous animal, it doesn't mean the police cannot shoot a dog that is behaving in a threatening manner. It means that if said dog does bite someone while defending it's owner's home, you cannot classify it as "dangerous" and have it impounded.
If any animal is threatening an officer, they are well within their rights to shoot it. Tasering a dog is usually not reccomended by any agency. So if they went in on a legitimate warrent(which it seems they did) then they are within their rights to shoot the dogs if they were threatening, which they very well could have been, being mastiffs in their own territory.
I have no ideas of why the police would seize the animals though. Is there a law or ordinace against keeping those species, keeping any certain number of animals, or running a business in that particular space?
If they just saw all the animals, assumed that they were not legal, and took them... then I would hope the animals would be returned. It's really stressful on the animals to be moved and who knows what sort of place they are being held in, and what care they are getting. I hope that the people who seized them had some sort of legitimate reason or that the animals are returned quickly so that they can get proper care.
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