[BookaT]

I know you guys/gals will hate this but...

I am too lazy to do the research on this but as it stands this is way too much. A dog(as much as I love them) is an animal.

To incarcerate someone for 2 years because a dog died due to him is ridiculous**.

I think there are better more immediate ways to deal with this guy. Give him the choice, 2 years in a REAL jail or soemthing else that would really suck. I think a beating of some sort would suffice.

I just base this on effing child molesters(male and female), murders, child killers and other human related criminals get way less than 2 years(OJ).

How about this guy has to do 3 years every saturday 8 hours at a shelter for animals(under supervision). Something more productive and less costly to the tax payers.

**And what will this guy learn in 2 years in prison. I am guesing he will get out and buy some dogs and kill them. Pick up some kittens and play roadsign bash with them. He will be pissed at animals for them(his actions) resulting in jail time.

I mean I loved all my dogs(and cats) but we need to level the punishment with human punishments.

[Calpernia]

>>>>I mean I loved all my dogs(and cats) but we need to level the punishment with human punishments.

How about increasing the human punishments that are not fitting the crime?

[newsworthy]

This person didn't just kill an animal; he tortured it to death. If you don't care about the dog's agony, consider this: torturing animals is the hallmark of a psychopathic personality which is very dangerous to other people. Read the pertinent psychological literature. Someone who can take pleasure in an animal's suffering will kill you without a second thought.

[dogbrain]

How about this guy has to do 3 years every saturday 8 hours at a shelter for animals(under supervision). Something more productive and less costly to the tax payers.

Excellent idea.

[-YYZ-]

"How about this guy has to do 3 years every saturday 8 hours at a shelter for animals(under supervision). Something more productive and less costly to the tax payers."

I agree with you, at least to a certain extent, but something tells me this guy would not be welcome at an animal shelter - probably comparable to putting child molestors in with the general population in a prison. I know I'd be tempted to knock a few of his teeth out.

[Muzzle_em]

I agree.
I think he should have to clean animal pens (under supervision) at the local aspca every weekend for 2 years.