Animal Cruelty Cases

Animal cruelty has not gone away. Offenders are at schools, are at college campuses, are adults, who are old enough to know better, and are children, who know enough to commit henious acts against innocent animals. Offenders are not just always the ignorant or the poor, but they are also found among the educated and privileged. The following reports of animal abuse are real and very disturbing, especially for sensitive readers. However, it is important that people be aware of such cases so that man is aware of the need for protective action.

According to the Animal Defense League Fund, ADLF, two college baseball players attending Baylor University, which is in Waco, Texas, allegedly shot, skinned, and beheaded a cat, named Queso. Clint Bowers and Derek Brehm, were charged in the death of the cat and suspended from Baylor for 15 days. For more details, access the ADLF .

In Brea, California, 85 children, ages ranging from kindergarten through 12th grade, whitnessed a cow being slaughtered at Carbon Canyon Christian School, according to PETA Action Alerts. The rational for having the students whitness this cruel act was that they could see this act, instead of only experiencing it through the books they had read during the year. For more information about this act, access PETA Action Alerts .

A Winston County, Alabama man, William Robinson, in September 2000, allegedly shot his Labrador mix puppy and burned the dog on a burning trash pile, while it was still alive, according to ADLF. Neighbors were unable to rescue the screaming wounded puppy, which burned to death. Robinson allegedly shot and burned to death the puppy for getting into the trash. Robinson could face a Class C Felony. For more details, click on Animal Cruelty Actionline.

Two thirteen year old boys, according to a PETA Actionline Report, sodomized a kitten with a stick, who followed them. According to whitnesses, the kitten tried to run away from the boys when they turned on it, but they picked her up and threw her to the ground after swinging and shaking her violently. While the cat was trying to escape by climbing a tree, it was reported that the boys followed her and shoved a stick into the kitten. The kitten's anus was ruptured, she had internal injuries neurological damage when brought to Pasado's Safe Hven of Shnohomish County, Washington State. A detailed account of this incident may be viewed at PETA Action Alerts.

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