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> Lets make this as clear as possible. I don’t agree with your proposal that 10 years is the just punishment for the offense. I know you love your dogs, but 10 years is crazy. I don’t care if he beat it the middle of the town square.

Ok, so what do you feel would be an appropriate sanction for beating somebody’s pet cat to death in front of children? What sentence wouldn’t be “crazy”?

> You make it sound like he just rang their doorbell and invited a film crew before killing it.

I don’t know any more about the circumstances than what you’ve gleaned from the story. But I don’t see too many shades of grey. Beating a pet cat to death is sick behavior. Doing it in front of kids (irrespective of how the kids got involved) is a serious aggravating factor. I don’t see many reasons to ameliorate a sentence of, say, ten years. Perhaps mental illness...

Yes, that is alot of time; and yes, it was “only a cat”. But any sick b@stard that could do that to a cat, in front of children, surely places little or no value on life. Society is therefore safer having that person behind bars, away from the rest of us. Tough punishment, sure: it’s very tough and I don’t care. He really ought to be strung up by the nuts and left to twist in the wind. Unfortunately we do not live in the Dark Ages, so ten years in the slammer is the worst we can do to them.

> What did I do, I knocked on their door, told them that if it came out in the street again I would beat it’s skull in. They moved. I really could care less it that offends you or not.

A roaming dog that bites is a serious public safety concern. It cannot be compared with a biting/scratching pet cat: it is a much bigger risk capable of doing much more serious damage. Off to the pound with it if possible, or kill it humanely if not: particularly if it is in the act of attacking someone. That doesn’t offend me at all. And I really couldn’t care less if it offends you either.