Six cattle were shot out here last summer, the summer before five had been. The ranchers posted a US $10,000 reward, but I haven't heard if it's been collected or not.

A woman and her boyfriend, back in Ohio, decided to party one three-day weekend. So that they wouldn't be interupted, they put the woman's two-year-old son out in the garage. The garage was unheated, the temperature averaged -14 F. that weekend, and the child froze to death.

Back in the mid-60's my friend Niles and his family kept a bull. Not a high-class stud bull, but just a bull to "freshen" their cows for milk. One day someone shot the bull in the hindquarters with birdshot; but the time the family found it the wounds had become infected and the bull had to be put down.

Just this past week the story of Nixmary came out of NYC. I'll leave you to find out about it.

In Nevada a bunch of wild horses were shot. The people responsible were found and sentenced to prison, as well as fined.

I have no patience with those who are unnecessarily cruel to people or animals. They are something less than human and should be treated as such.