In the Montérégie, a black lab female and her puppies where left for dead after being shot by a nail gun, two of the eight puppies didn’t make it. Fortunately the other puppies have survived and been adopted. The mother is also recovering after being shot with a nail gun in the head. The police are still looking for who could have done this. Unfortunately, if they find whoever did this, they probably get away with a slap on the wrist. These pieces of refuse should be made to endure what these puppies endured.
When I was a teen on my grandpa’s farm I was selected to exterminate an unwanted litter of kittens. It was tough, but I got the job done, as quick and painless as possible (while on a backwater farm, that is…) Later, when I told grandpa how badly it hurt, he told me: “Good – it proves you have a heart.” God bless the man – I learned a lot from him.
Obviously, the sickos in the OP’s link felt nothing; they couldn’t even get a proper job done, assuming euthanasia was their intent. 'Tis a pity that animal cruelty carries only a maximum jail sentence of 3-4 years, and these jerks probably will plead it down…and none of us can treat them like a basket of unwanted kittens.
I’ve made this suggestion before. People convicted of acts of animal cruelty like this should have to register like sex offenders. They’d have to go around their neighbourhood and tell everyone that they had been convicted of torturing an animal.
I own dogs and like dogs, but even the worst behavior towards an animal never warrants a person being killed or forced to endure physical harm.
I don’t believe whatsoever in the existence of animal rights. The only reason I can even find myself supporting animal cruelty laws at all is just because wanton cases of animal cruelty represent extremely antisocial behavior and are probably something we want to keep under control as a society. I think if for no other reason than someone who, for example, burns a neighborhood dog to death at age 17 is someone I want being put through some form of institutionalization (in that specific case I’d prefer through psychiatric versus criminal institutions.)
So the fact that an animal suffers pain, in and of itself, doesn’t bother you? It’s only because the offender may go on to similarly harm human beings? :dubious:
People are kept civilized by two things: internal constraint (conscience) or external restraint (fear of punishment). When the former is absent, as is clearly the case here, the latter needs to be cranked up to eleven.
That, or permanently removing the two-legged wild animals from society, with or without putting them down. Either way.