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.