What I want to know is, what in the world was a child—one who seems little short on judgment and maturity—doing with a bow and arrow and no parent in sight? I’m all for teaching kids how to use a weapon correctly and responsibly, but I wouldn’t just turn them loose with one.
I despise cruelty to animals (yes, recklessness IS cruelty). I’ve been a vegetarian for twelve years, and so far that has failed to take away my concern for humans or turn me into an abortion supporter. The difference between me and PeTA is I can see a difference between shooting a deer and shooting a person. That, and I don’t advocate vandalism, terror, abuse, public nudity, perversion, abandonment of reason, turning animal rights into a national joke...hell, keep PeTA as far away from me as possible.
If morons who buy pets on an impulse would bother to spay and neuter them—if you can’t afford that, what makes you think you can afford to FEED the animal for fifteen or more years?—we wouldn’t have nearly as many problems with feral cats and dogs as we do.