
Originally Posted by
Tock
IMHO, a crime that's even worse, is animal neglect.
The first job I had when I moved to Dallas (years ago), I was a city dogcatcher. I chased 'em in a truck for 6 months, then went to night shift (for the school schedule) when we killed all the unwanted animals with needles, drugs, and force.
That was, hands down, the worst job I've ever had, or ever seen. Every night, I had to take boxes of 2 week old puppies, and kill 'em. Needles in the abdomen. Judging from the way they writhed, it was not an easy way to go. And then there were the bigger dogs -- only about 1/3 went down easy; the rest suffered varying degrees of uncomfortable deaths. The tough ones, we had to stick the needle directly into the animal's heart. And they screamed.
A bigger crime than animal rape is the animal neglect that results in dogs and cats running loose, and dying slow painful deaths on the side of the road. Or the neglect that results in Poodles running loose with mange or distemper or worms, slowly wasting away.
You haven't seen anything until you've seen a 3 foot tall pile of freshly killed dogs and cats, that used to belong to somebody -- somebody who neglected those animals, who neglected to spay and neuter them, who failed to keep them on a leash, who failed to get them their shots, and worst of all, who abandoned their animal miles from home, out in the middle of nowhere.
Back in the 1970's, this city killed an average of 75 animals each night (more during the day, I dunno how many). Medical schools would get another dozen or so for experiments.
Ya, I've seen a lot of disgusting things; cruel, heartless, inhumane things done to dogs by their owners, that should get them far worse punishment than the 1 year in prison this idiot teenager might get for rape.
But which transgression gets media coverage? Which outrage against dogs gets the most attention, and which is never mentioned?
In the grand scheme of things, one kid's animal rape is nothing, compared with the hundreds of thousands of animal abuse that ends in their slow and anguished death.
JMHO . . . .
I'm getting off my soapbox now . . .