Posted on 09/28/2016 12:20:50 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Fort Bragg soldier who intentionally drowned his 8-month-old puppy in 2015 was ordered by a judge Tuesday to keep a photo of the dog in his wallet.
Police said John Burrow tied up the pup named Riley then threw the animal into MacFadyen Pond in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
On Jan. 2, 2015, the dog’s body washed ashore.
Burrow allegedly told investigators the mixed lab-shepherd pup had run from home several times, and he and his wife could not afford the bills after the dog got hurt.
Burrow’s neighbors were furious, especially those who had given the couple hundreds of dollars to help pay the veterinarian, according to WRAL.
Cumberland County Superior Court Judge Jim Ammons handed down the unusual sentence after accepting Burrow’s guilty plea to a charge of felony animal cruelty.
Ammons also sentenced Burrow 30 days in jail and 100 hours of community service, which he may serve cleaning out the cages at Cumberland County Animal Control.
He won’t be allowed to own a pet for five years.
Burrow’s wife, 22-year-old Kelsey Caroline Burrow, could also face punishment for a misdemeanor charge of being an accessory after the fact.
Weeds, mice, flies, and bees do not depend on us for water, food, or shelter. If you cannot understand the distinction, then you’re not talking nonsense, you’re talking cretin.
Louse of a guy but, if this is valid punishment, they ought to make those who have abortions carry pictures of the bloody fetus in their wallets too.....
Drink!
I don’t feed or water feral kittens or wild dogs, but if I put them in a bag and toss them in a pond I am still likely (depending on the locale) to face criminal charges. In the eyes of the law, it is simply that one (dogs and cats) is a protected class that has rights, one is not. If I kill a rattlesnake in my lawn that is threatening my dog, it is in fact a criminal act in many jurisdictions. Rattlesnakes do not depend on me for food and water, but they have rights under the law because of their protected status. Likewise if I kill a chicken-hawk attacking my chickens. Once you introduce the ridiculous notion that some animals have rights, there will be no end to it, mark my words. Exactly like “protected” classes of people under civil rights law. Progressives are nuts and they will eventually say that keeping pets is slavery and try to outlaw it (they have actually already proposed this). Ultimately the farmer and rancher will be the ones to suffer the most— those who simply want to live a rural, independent lifestyle with no interference from the government in their daily lives.
Should have taken to the local spca where they would have gassed it out of sight
You characterize my viewpoint as utter nonsense, and liken it to nanny-state liberalism? You liken pulling a weed to tying a rope around an animal’s neck and watching it struggle and drown?
Shame on you. Conservative hunters have nothing but disgust and derision for people who share your viewpoint who would take a bad shot at an animal, wounding it and causing it to suffer needlessly.
By your viewpoint, it would be just fine to skin the animal alive, cut off all of its legs and let it take a half hour to die because it is just an animal with no “rights”.
You talk about “rights” and “the law”, which this has NOTHING to do with. The point is plain and simple, cruelty and the obverse, simple decency.
Just because one enjoys eating venison doesn’t mean one can or should butcher the animal while it is still living and breathing so they can get the freshest cut of meat, but in your narrow viewpoint, because they are dumb animals, that would be perfectly fine.
The first child abuse laws were originally used as animal abuse laws.
I’ve had 2 very well taken care of mini poodles I’ve had to put down because of wide spread cancer that their breed is known for. When I my Rocket was thought to just have a kidney stone, doc opened him up to remove it and found wide spread cancer, there usually are no symptoms. She called and wanted to know if I wanted her to wake him up so I could say goodbye, I’d already done it, as you don’t know when they go into surgery if they will come out. I said it would be cruel to wake him, just to turn around and put him down. So she just never let him wake up. Cried like a baby for days.
We don’t accept this type of behavior today as we know it is a cruel way to deal with a pet that requires a lot of care and training after all this was just a puppy. It would be like drowning a human child. What next is drowning going to be the way we get rid of unwanted 8 month old baby? This idiot just didn’t want to take the time to train or pen the puppy, they take lots of time to train and keep safe. My baby Libby is chipped, we are babying along a 17 yr old too who is blind and hard of hearing.
I love animals and respect life, and while I don’t elevate the life of an animal to a human, the life of nearly any animal I can think of is worth a lot more than some of the vile people who think it is just fine that animals suffer at the hands of humans out of laziness, neglect, or active abuse which they justify because it is only an animal.
Disgusting and shameful views that some espouse. It nauseates me.
In my opinion, anyone that would characterize abuse of an animal as completely fine because it is an animal, is only a step away from doing the exact same thing to a human they choose to characterize as an animal, whether that human deserves to be characterized that way or not.
You nailed it in post 9!!
I am a conservative hunter, and I have disdain for people who take a bad shot at animals. But I don’t think the animal should be given rights, or that the human should be criminally prosecuted for such an action. Animals are animals, and people are people, only one has rights. These are God given rights, but protected under the law. Animals should not have these rights, because the progressive left will twist them for their own agenda as they have with every other “feel good” law on the books. If people want to shame that person, or deny them housing, or boycott their business, I’m all for it— but you don’t need to change the status of animals from property to legal personhood. And like it or not your position is exactly like that of nanny-state liberals; they push for laws based on emotion without thinking through the unintended consequences of such laws or the legal precedents they will set.
Doing the moral, right and humane thing is the thing to do whether you are on a urban farm in the middle of a liberal city with the laws hung over your head and liberals protesting at the edges of your property, or on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 3000 miles away from any other human being when nobody is looking.
Most moral people try to instill exactly that in their children.
If the dog in this case was feral, you’d have a point.
I see what you did there.
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More and more often, this places utterly amazes me.
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It is impossible to appeal the humanity of someone who does not already possess at least a little bit.
I know. Farmers and others who deal with animals and livestock for their living have all the opportunity to be cruel, but many of them, being Christian, understand that even though man has dominion over animals (similar to God’s dominion over us) that doesn’t equate to a license to be cruel.
There is, and should be respect for life and suffering in decent, moral people.
I grew up with similar stories. I have to say that I thought this was standard operating procedure for a long time. It's not something I would have done in my life, but I just assumed that people around the country did it as a matter of expediency.
“The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.”
Proverbs 12:16
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