Animal Cruelty. Makes Me Sick!!!

[NAK302]

threads like this fairly well sum up the current "you can't touch me" generation's attitude. must make mum and dad soooo proud.

[Keepleft]

A few years ago I went for a bushwalk near Castelcrag on Sydney's north shore, it's a comparatively pretty 'well off' area and I certainly didn't expect what I found wrapped in a knotted-up plastic bag.

5 kittens merely discarded/dumped. One had expired. I took the shaky survivors to a well known cat lady at Terrence Hills, she related many such stories, seems such acts are more than 'just rarities'.

I can recall a dog strapped and weighed down with bricks or a concrete slab around its neck and dumped in water at Rose Bay in Sydney. Rose Bay Police were 'furious', not sure if they ever caught the hero or hereo's responsible.

I hear numerous stories of the Greyhound industry, of maltreating the dogs AND of course the live baits sometimes used to 'better' them.

And then we have dog and rooster fights. (Asia is particularly savage insofar cruelty).

Evidence is always required to prosecute.

Human beings have a long way to go yet.

[gozza]

don't get me started on this...i could rant for days.....what sickenings me is the attitude towards cats...fair enough you may not be a cat lover...but alot of people whether they actually torture the cats talk of them being pests and dig the boot into to em....treat the dog in the house better.....cats are just as loyal if you treat em right...i got 2 cats that walk on the bikepath with me and the dog...always come and greet you when u get home....if i was to see anyone treating an animal with cruelty i wouldn't hesitate to creep up from behind and smash em in the back of the head with a brick....cowards don't get the luxury of being conftonted to the face

[davocol]

I would love to get my hands on one these people for one minute, it completely infuriates me. Cruelty to animals is up there with cruelty to kids, they are so defenceless and mean no harm to anyone. The love and joy and animal can bring is amazing and yet there people out there like that. It makes you sick to the stomach.

[RG]

I recall a few years back up in echuca finding a plastic rubbish bag in a dumpster that someone had "disposed" of 6 staffy cross pups that weren't even 6 weeks old. I mean how hard is it to take the animals to the pound or be a little more responsible and get your animal fixed. This sort of violence just makes me sick... if you don't like them don't touch them. And that poor little jack russell pup that was killed in it's own back yard was actually in Ballarat, my home town, and as yet I don't think anyone has been charged. Here's to hoping local "justice" catches up with them first. ing_sm

[SunDrifter]

Harsher penalties need to be applied to this sort of thing.

My girlfriend works for the RSPCA, there's way too much of this sort of thing happening that you don't hear about.