Posted on 09/19/2007 6:47:29 PM PDT by yorkie
Give it 20 years and Al-Queda will be our cops.
Do you know why we did it? It was the only merciful thing to do. It may have made those ditching their pet feel better to imagine little Fluffy or Fufu leaping joyously through fields of flowers but that is imagination. The reality is something different. It is a slow, cruel, torturous death. It is starvation until their ribs show. It is cold until their mouth freezes shut. It is fights with other feral dogs or wild animals that leaves their guts dragging on the ground. Yep, I've killed 'em, dozens, maybe hundreds of 'em. Sometimes with tears streaming down my face, sometimes with an urgency that this animal's suffering could not, should not, last one minute, one second, longer.
Nature is brutal, always has been and always will be. Death out there is ugly, painful and, if you are very, very lucky, fast. It mystifies me that we have grown so soft, so detatched from the natural cycle that we cannot place death in a proper perspective. We just call the nice man and he comes and picks up our inconvenient charges. He smiles and takes them away to a swift painless death. Not so, but we have soothed out consciences.
Everyone should have to dispose of a litter of kittens with a gunny sack and a brick or dispatch a puppy with the back of a spade. There would be a lot less whimpering and a lot more respect for the life that we have.
Thanks. She was fine after being stitched up and a little physical therapy. At the time...she was only 8 years old.. so the whole thing was traumatic.
The brotherhood of police tend to stick together - no matter what.
We called it "the Klan". *chuckle* To be fair, I've met my fair share of good cops. I'm a nurse.. and I would hate someone to disparage the profession...after a bad experience in the hospital. :)
LOL!! Good one!
It wasn't long ago I remember the "norm" being grandpa taking a litter of kittens to the creek in a gunny sack. As a child... I was horrified. As an adult who has lived in the country for most of my adult life......I agree with much of what you said.
Loads of dogs get dumped out here every year. I've taken in a few strays...and I'd find homes for some.....but most get shot. They run the horses and cattle and kill the calves. Ranchers see them as scavangers.....no better than coyotes. Sad....but a fact of life.
> Nature is brutal, always has been and always will be. Death out there is ugly, painful and, if you are very, very lucky, fast. It mystifies me that we have grown so soft, so detatched from the natural cycle that we cannot place death in a proper perspective. We just call the nice man and he comes and picks up our inconvenient charges. He smiles and takes them away to a swift painless death. Not so, but we have soothed out consciences.
Everyone should have to dispose of a litter of kittens with a gunny sack and a brick or dispatch a puppy with the back of a spade. There would be a lot less whimpering and a lot more respect for the life that we have.<
I very reluctantly agree with you. Hound mixes make up a huge percentage of pound and shelter dogs. Beagle mixes might get adopted, but at least in my part of Virginia, the coonhound mixes get the needle. As a whole, coonhounds do not make good pets (I know there are exceptions). They are working dogs.
Had this man simply turned in the litter at a nearby pound, nothing would have been said, and the majority of, if not the entire litter, would have been put down anyway.
Understood. I don’t have a problem if an animal needs to be put down by the owner, but burying alive seems pretty cruel. I realize dogs aren’t sentient, but they aren’t mindless lower life forms like insects, for example. The owner should provide a swift and painless death if at all possible.
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