Cruelty is defined at:
“callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain and suffering.”
If the animal did not suffer you cannot call what was done cruelty. For something to be cruelty it must, by the very definition of the word, involves pain and suffering.
I hate to break this to you, but as has been pointed out many times, this woman was not charged with any crime. The DA investigated and brought no charges, what she did, as much as you may not like it, is not animal cruelty.
Has nothing about being a tough guy, it has to do with understanding the difference between something that is cruel and something that you just don’t like.
Unless you live in a state that expressly makes it illegal for you to kill a nuisance animal, you aren’t violating laws by killing one, even if that animal happens to be a cat or a dog... (and yes some states do make it expressly illegal to kill a nuisance animal if it is a cat or a dog, but most do not).
She was unconcerned with the suffering of the animal, and if the arrow hadn't killed it quickly, another one would have been needed!
The fact that no charges were filed is also no relevant, since most of the time animal abuse aren't filed.
You have no idea that it was a 'nuisance animal' but guys like you are always find excuses to defend cruelty to animals and then telling us 'that they are only animals'.
Why do you persist in your failed attempt to justify the killing of this animal?
It's already been proven that the animal was not feral, was not rabid and that the veterinarian that killed it with a target arrow as it sat in front of her was a liar?
You seem indifferent to anything but the fact that because it was 'only' an animal' anything can be done to it with impunity.
The woman clearly has some kind of mental problem to kill a helpless animal in this manner, something you defend.
But 'tough' guys like you show on every animal abuse case, telling us that animals aren't human and if you are concerned with animal cruelty you must be a member of PETA.
'Real' conservatives kill animals with no concern since they are 'only' animals, (isn't that the term you used)