[libertylass]

As you may have read previously, the seriousness of the cruelty inflicted on seven rabbits by the father and son team in this family is especially horrific. I don't always like PETA's tactics, but this time they are needed to push for felony abuse charges against these animals.

If you are not interested in animal cruelty then please look to other posts, I don't care to hear animal cruelty jokes or justifications.

For those serious about convicting cruel people of these types of actions, then I ask that you send a letter to the above people.

Thanks much.....a rabbit owner and lover.

[knarf]

Before I'd click on a PETA link, I'd want you to lay out this 'crime'.

Briefly, it sounds like someone is raising rabbits for food and I ask ... what's wrong with that?

[HiTech RedNeck]

So they got the rabbits to fight. How do rabbits fight? Kick and paw each other? Is this worth the fuss?

[stanz]

Count me in.

[mc10]

being a country boy...let me say that i too resent the needless waste of rabbits...i have enjoyed eating them since i was born and to waste one that i might enjoy eating is terrible

[hchutch]

This is pretty ugly.

FYI ping to Poohbah.

[From The Deer Stand]

When I saw in the headline "Update on rabbit cruelty case" I though the old case resurfaced when Jimmy Carter beat the heck out of rabbit with a boat oar while he was fishing. If you're old enough you'll remember that the ex-prez, who nowadays spends his time trashing President Bush, thought the rabbit was going to "attack" him.

[45Auto]

Sounds like these rabbits need to be prepared.

[Eva]

I don't care whether PETA has a legitimate gripe against these people or not. I would never support any action that this group takes. They don't mind abusing FFA children, but they worry about animal abuse. Supporting PETA is no different than the idiot sheeple supporting the communist anti-war protesters.

[Psycho_Bunny]

[GladesGuru]

"He who sups with the Devil had best bring a long handled spoon."

The above was common knowledge back when Bradford was using a quill pen to describe the "Plymothe Colonie'.

Your "cure' is sure to turn out to be worse than the disease. Maybe even worse than the sick puppies in the tape.

[MississippiMan]

It amazes me that after you asked reasonably for the smart-alec commenters to go elsewhere, they just couldn't restrain themselves. I too despite PETA. That doesn't mean I automatically despise or ridicule every case they're involved in for the cases stand on their own regardless of who's involved as far as I'm concerned.

The thugs involved in this need to be seriously punished, and just because other atrocities are going on that need punished, doesn't eliminate the need in cases like these.

MM

[Porterville]

I love shooting rabbits, especially with a revolver, little bastards dig holes under citrus trees and in the pasture along with thier evil cronies the ground squirrels.

[Coroner]

I used to have several Boa constrictors. Their favorite food were rabbits. They were dispatched quickly by the boas. Law of the jungle. I dont know what they did to those rabbits??

[Alylonee]

Wow, that is truly horrible. These idiots should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Anyone that could torture animals for the fun of it as apposed to hunting (killing swiftly with little to no pain), should be sent to Iraq to live with those cruel, merciless monsters. I hate PETA with a passion, but I hate animal abuse more.

PEOPLE THAT COULD TORTURE ANIMALS ARE CAPABLE OF MUCH WORSE TO OTHER HUMANS.

[LowOiL]

I'd have to have my children starving and the peta link paying $10,000 a pop to click it, before I would hit their link.

[ChemistCat]

PETA is a terrorist organization, plain and simple.

And someone who is torturing small animals for pleasure is building himself up to torturing people--that's pretty much a given. So is this an impasse?

No. Of course not.

Please let me know how I can help put pressure on the DA to prosecute this case with all the effort they can put into it, and I'll be glad to help, but I will not have anything whatsoever to do with PETA.

I must add however that my state has been unable to put sufficient investigative and prosecutorial effort into finding and arresting someone who raped an 8-month-old baby girl in Henrietta, OK. She was raped in her parents' home with her parents in the house. The parents did not take the baby to the doctor--the grandmother did so, late the next day. She had broken legs, ribs, a broken pelvis, and her reproductive organs had to be removed. The child protective services is considering whether to sever the parents' parental rights, but nobody has been arrested. In the meantime, the child cannot be adopted by a family that would actually protect her from savage rapists and people who won't take care of a severely wounded child. (I would bet my house that the rapist and the baby have the same last name.)

I would love to extend my outrage to this New York case, especially since I suspect that someone who would rape a baby likely got his start on small animals. I am all for shooting these kinds of sickos. But you see, PETA classes me in the same sicko category, simply because I eat meat.

I'd like very much to take positive action to reduce the cruelty in our culture. But I won't do it through the terrorist organization PETA. I will not do it through an organization that uses terror tactics to achieve its ends, nor will I lend legitimacy to their view of reality. You cannot do good with evil means.

You don't have to be a PETA type to find this rabbit abuse worth fighting. Therefore, we don't need PETA to fight it.

[FreePaul]

Is this something that you witnessed or are you relating something told to you? Before I got upset about this I'd have to have a lot more information than I've seen here. Maybe the District Attorney's office feels the same way.

[sport]

mark for later reading

[diamond6]

THIS INFURIATES ME. I OWNED RABBITS FOR YEARS AND YEARS AS A KID. SO I FEEL EMPATHY FOR ANIMALS TREATED BADLY.

HOWEVER, WHY DON'T YOU USE YOUR TIME AND ENERGY AND FIGHT FOR THE UNBORN WHO ARE BEING TREATED FAR WORSE THAN THESE ANIMALS.

THIS STUFF JUST DRIVES ME CRAZY!