BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?

Subject: RE: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 10:05 PM

"Studies conducted in other parts of Canada indicate a similar situation. In a Winnipeg Study, 78% of those charged with animal cruelty had also been charged with violence or threats of violence against people. Over 60% of 39 women who had been abused by their partners and were living in women's shelters in Hamilton and Owen Sound said their pets had either been abused or killed by their partners."

From an SPCA website. Many studies done around the world indicate the above to be true (those who abuse animals often also abuse people).

Subject: RE: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: Once Famous
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 09:39 PM

There are laws against cruelty to animals, and every once in a while I do hear a news story that there have been punishments, fines, and even jail time given out.

Subject: RE: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: tarheel
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 09:27 PM

wanna see some really cruelty to Animals?...Watch Animal Planet,on cable tv...
it's some terrible stuff to know that folks trerat their pets that way...
tar...

Subject: RE: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: Bert
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 09:16 PM

It's not a new thing. Way back in the early Fifties we lived near a lake.

There were a pair of swans there named Billy and Dilly.

One day a few soldiers came down from the nearby army camp and caught Billy and they hanged him.

Subject: RE: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 08:51 PM

Saying "it's just how people are" isn't really good enough, because most of the time, and with most people it just isn't like that. You'd have to lean pretty hard on most people to make them do anything like that. There are reasons why people do seemingly motiveness things like that to animals, and to other human beings.

And I don't think saying "it's because they are evil" helps either. True enough to describe the people who do stuff like that as evil, on the basis of what they have done, but that's a label that arises from their actions, it doesn't do much to explain where the actions come from.

Subject: RE: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 08:16 PM

Could be a lot worse, I guess...

I guess...

Subject: RE: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 08:10 PM

Clinton, you remind me of Mark Twain more and more.

Subject: RE: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 08:08 PM

Given the shit we do to each other, often in the name of love or Gawd or whatever, that we treat animals just as bad or worse surprise me not at all....

Have you not met "The Human Race"?

Subject: RE: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 07:55 PM

That is fairly common I'm afraid. I had to shoot a cat to put it out of its misery many years back because some kids had hurt it. There are some seriously sick people around.

Subject: BS: How can people be so cruel to Animals ?
From: GUEST,Zach & Stephanie
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 07:50 PM

How can people be so cruel to animals. I saw someone shot a swan through the neck with a cross bow yesterday. It's the sixth such attack on a quiet lake. Last week I read someone tied two cats inside a wood bag and the died fighting.Then today I heard of an old horse called Gloria standing in a field and in the dark of night someone shot it in the rear end. What kind of world are we living in. In 46 years I have never heard of such sickening attacks.