Posted on 12/18/2010 8:39:31 AM PST by a real Sheila
A Macon woman arrived home from work Thursday to discover her house had been burglarized and her puppy severely cut, beaten and burned.
Kristy Lipscomb, of Beddingfield Drive in south Macon, said she left home about 6 p.m. Wednesday to go to work at Houston Healthcare in Warner Robins.
When she returned home just before 8 a.m. Thursday, she found her bedroom had been ransacked and her kitchen cabinets left open. The electrical meter had been stolen from an outside
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Great, we always get someone here bitching about this.
These are the kinds of people that MOVE ON TO PEOPLE, friend. You take care of them while they are still on animals, you’ve saved a lot of future people victims.
And many people rightly get incensed about people that senselessly kill animals because of that fact, and that killing a person’s animal IS an attack on the owner - it can take away a non-human family member they love and value. Compared to people they’re innocents in the sense they don’t plan to murder or steal. Closer to little children than adults.
What is wrong with these people? Here in San Diego we have had some creepy things happening as there was a month old puppy found in a dumpster with his ears cut off. Then recently they found his sister across the border, also with ears cut off. Luckily the pups are doing great and there are a lot of prospective adoptive homes. Now they found a German Shepherd puppy staggering down a busy street with over 50 stab wounds. Poor pup died in some bushes. Breaks my heart....
Not to put words in you mounth, but it seems you’re saying that the punishment for animal torture should be the same as for killing a human?
Odin still looks like a lap dog.
Ok maybe with an attitude.
Also Ya get your pick as Mr. Cooper is getting in to the hall this year.
1st saw him in Baltimore civic about 73.
Nope, thanks for not getting what I was saying.
I'm saying it!
Well, I was trying to be polite. How about returning the favor and explain what you did mean?
OK, Now that you’ve established that the punishment for animal torture should be death, let’s see at what level the death penalty would begin to apply.
Toture of an animal by shooting it with an arrow and failing to track it long enough to find it and put it out of it’s misery?
How long would someone have to track the animal, and failing to find it, before the death penalty would no long apply to the hunter?
What is not clear? Why not tell me what led you to assume that’s what I meant?
The fact that humans kill and murder other humans doesn’t make what they do to animals any less evil and deserving of punishment. It does not take away anything from human murder to spend time and energy going after those that commit evil against animals. Those filth that do this to animals often ‘graduate’ to doing these wicked and evil things to people. It’s the difference between a sadist novice and a sadist advanced. It’s still sadistic and evil. Better to stop it before they start going after people.
Would you not do what was necessary to stop a criminal if they were trying to kill your pet? I would. If they wind up dead, that’s a consequence of their own actions, I would not have to defend my animals against them if they would not have done what they did. Most pet owners would do the same. That is MY animal, I own them, I am responsible for their well being, I provide them safety and what they need and they are 100% dependent on me. They have no right to kill my animal if they are breaking into my house, I will use whatever I have at hand to stop the threat to my animals.
Personally I would rather have these people be treated fairly and experience whatever they did to the animal. If they wind up dying, well, that’s how it turns out. I think that’s no more and no less fair. I wish we could have that done to murderers and violent criminals as well. But that’s another tangent.
No, you really weren’t trying to be polite. You’re baiting is what you’re doing.
Again, by how you posted here, you’re really not trying to be that polite.
If you can’t understand the difference between hunting and a criminal slashing up your animal in your house, how many people here do you think are going to believe that they are equivalent acts? Really? Do you really believe they are? Or are you just trying to pick an intellectual fight?
You’re just not happy that some people want severe punishment for those that commit horrendous injuries or torturous death to animals, because that somehow ignores injustice to people or takes the spotlight away from people. Yes there is so much other injustices that occur to people, but everyone I know on FR also disagrees with those injustices as well, and say so when we see these stories posted here too. The same people who comment about this type of story comment on stories about abortion and murder of people. If we can only ever comment or focus on animals after we take care of all the people injustice, we’ll never get to them. And so much for humanity’s biblical stewardship responsibility.
That’s why people develop specific groups and causes for specific things, because not everyone is drawn to the same issues with the same intesity. The breast cancer people aren’t focused on prostate cancer. The MS people aren’t focused on wounded veterans. Are they bad because they aren’t focused on more? Are they being neglectful? Should they not do work in their area until another area gets more attention first?
Now it's your turn, I didn't say that.
Read the posts.
I think it's stupid, indefensible really, to call for the death sentence to be applied to those who torture animals.
Read the posts, some are calling for that. That's absurd.
Vivisection for the perp
One word-MUSLIM
If you walked in on someone torturing your animals to death and you had a firearm, would you shoot to stop the threat?
Nope.
Just like I don't advocate the death penalty for someone who is involved in a traffic accident where a fatality is involved.
Sheesh.
Hate to get involved in your little mind game hissy fit. Your antagonist replied “...If you can’t understand the difference between hunting and a criminal slashing up your animal in your house, how many people here do you think are going to believe that they are equivalent acts? Really?.. “
That’s really as clear as it gets. “...stupid and indefensible...” is an appropriate retort and expected when it’s patently clear by the comments on this thread that you’ve lost whatever argument you were trying to provoke.
In my opinion,not only should purposely torturing a helpless animal, regardless of age, be equated with purposely murdering a human being, I think a punishment applying the worst revenge fantasy of the animal’s owner or the human being’s loved one(s)would be wonderfully and satisfyingly appropriate.
This will never happen, of course, but what kind of society have we become when the level of abuse meted out to a helpless animal is usually punished by the equivalent of a slap on the wrist?
DEATH to those that harm and torture animals.
Are Michael Vick and his friends in the area?
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