One of the most interesting places I have been recently was Bucharest, Romania, which has over a quarter million feral dogs running through the street. I can post photos if you wish but let me tell you, the dogs are all fed as good as the people. One of the former mayors wanted to kill them all but he was almost killed himself. Meanwhile, a quat er million dogs run feral though a large city and shop owners feed them and water them and just plain love having them around. So to rather end on a sour situation, let's follow that with the loving one I have just related. Fortunately, just as much good can be found as bad and I think the bad is overreported at least I hope that is the case..Originally Posted by ProudKittieMom
I cant believe that people actually do things like this to poor animals, I also do think that the law doesnt do much punishment, theres a fine and a possibility of a jail time and i think that jail time should be a definate!!! So far in the last past 2 days on the news there were topics on animla cruelty and it just makes me sick here is one of the stories
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/...73/detail.html
i testified on that case.... i do animal rescue and i was one of the people who stated that we would of brought the dog food. the lady claimed she didnt have the money
I think it was in East Pennsboro Township, Cumerland County Pa. I think this particular one involved a man.
I just saw that one too! I almost cried! You know the ones that DO make me cry and are the hardest to handle are the horses. A cat or a dog, if loose can scavange for food, eat rodents, drink out of a puddle, ect, atleast. But, a horse SILENTLY waits to just die, they are often in stalls with muck to their shoulders, or muddy back yards with NOTHING. they aren't given hay or water, and the grass is none or little, and they slowly deteriorate. They don't bark and raise attention like a dog, they can't raid a trash can, I just could go on and on, but I can't stomache these cases when they show them, it takes months for a horse to loose all their fat and muscel to the point they are finally rescued in. I just can't see how some one can watch a horse (or any animal) get treated that way. Alot of the time they say the couldn't afford to feed the horse and the loved it, well if they love it so much and are poor, why wouldn't they sell it? I mean horses aren't cheap, they could have atleast gotten a couple hundred dollars for it, before it got to be skin and bones, and have the horse be loved and FED. If I had no money I would sell the horse before I let the money waste away to death in my front yard.Originally Posted by Nekochan
I saw a dog on Animal Precinct the other night that just made me so angry and sad... I still can't stop thinking about him! I watch those shows all the time but this one dog just really got to me... It was a really sweet black and white mixed breed. His owner had douse him with motor oil to treat a very bad case of mange (first of all that is REALLY bad for dogs) and she had been walking the dog off leash when the dog went away from her and into I guess it was the lobby of her apartment building where a bunch of teenagers were, and one of them PUT A LIT MATCH ON THE DOG, knowing he was covered in oil! The dog ran back out on fire. She brought the dog to animal control. He had 2nd and 3rd degree burns all over his back and the tips of his ears were burned off. Despite how much pain he must have been in, he was totally friendly the whole time, even when the ASPCA officers picked him up to take him to their shelter and when the doctor examined his burns. The dog was so badly burned that they had to anesthetize him to change his bandages.
They later found out who had burned the dog, it was a 12 year old boy. They did not press charges but did arrest him hoping it would 'scare him straight' (he did not show any remorse for what he did) but he did not even care about being arrested, let alone for what he did that that sweet dog.
I just can't believe that anyone would do something like that to a living creature. It was also amazing how friendly and sweet that dog was despite everything that happened to him.
This did have a good ending at least, the dog ended up in a very good home. At the end of the show the new owners said they felt like they were his parents and they were very protective of him...
The same episode had another case that made me really angry... This guy had gotten angry at his stepson so he took his cat out and tried to throw it into an empty lot nearby, but instead the cat got caught on the barbed/razor wire at the top. He just left it there. There was a fire station right next door, he could have at least asked them to help the cat, but nothing. Luckily someone from the fire station saw it and they rescued the cat. They were able to find him because he dropped his wallet by the fence. When the cruelty investigator came to ask him what had happened, he kept saying "For a cat? All this for a cat?" He also said (as if it were no big deal) that he had chased the cat around the kitchen trying to hit it with his belt because it jumped on the table, and it scratched him which is apparently why he decided to throw it over the fence. >Thankfully the ASPCA took the cat and amazingly it had no injuries that they could find, and also found a good home...
