Yeah, and IIRC, a lot of misanthropic pet people were saying that wasn't enough. That puppy beating was indicative of the guy being cut from the same cloth as serial killers, and robert blake and scott peterson, et al.
I think PETA people are nearly all misanthropic and so are a couple of pet people I work with. They've got 4 dogs, 4 cats and no friends, and that's by design.
More like a dog, a cat, a turtle, a guinea pig, two hampsters, and a bowl full of guppies. And they have a very good friends in pet store owners.