I agree. I don’t agree with what he did. I have animals myself and love them. However, in the end, it’s a dog, not a human being. A fine would have been punishment enough. I don’t belive in jail time for anything a human does to an animal, no matter how bad. It doesn’t mean I like it.
Well, that’s not EXACTLY what I said. If this guy was using animals as food for others (as happens in nature), that’s fine, as long as the animal suffers.
What I take issue with is your statement of, “I don’t belive in jail time for anything a human does to an animal, no matter how bad.” That I have disagree with most strongly.
CRUELTY towards animals is one gauge of one’s depravity towards HUMAN life. If you’re sadistic enough to put a kitten on a BBQ (as recently happened) or throw someone’s dog into traffic in a case of road rage (which happened in CA a few years back) then you deserve to be punished.
But feeding an animal to another? Nah, as long as the eaten animal isn’t suffering needlessly, then I really don’t see a big deal about it.