Hang all these savages

[DrFilth]

upside down by their goolies and give a them a bit of their own medicine

http://www.telegraph....eleased-by-RSPCA.html

[jno]

"psychopaths start out on small animals then work there way up

just a matter of time"

That's like saying drug users start out with dope and work their way up so anyone with a spliff ought to be treated as a heroin fiend.

I'm loving the lip-licking descriptions of torture people are coming up with on this thread, though. Hey, suppose the guy turns out to be a paedophile as well?

[LoftyLottie]

Animal and child cruelty upset me equally actually. Pain inflicted on animals is no less than pain inflicted on humans and it's the fact that animals and little kids can't defend themselves from these lowlife people that really upsets me.

[AlBags]

Ar$ehole.
Wants catching and swinging around the same by the goolies.

[B00]

Can see what you mean jno, but as ive said, animal cruelty just flicks a particular switch in my head and does make me see red. It's not logical I guess, but there you go.

[naomi24]

jno //goodness, if you're going to castrate people for mistreating a cat, what are you going to do to people who hurt people? Execute the lot? //

When I read reports like this, my initial reaction to a question like yours is 'Yes'! Barstewards! Sickening!

[LoftyLottie]

jno, I can't agree with your sentiments on this because it is known that a large proportion of criminals who kill and commit violent acts on people have done the same to animals in the past. It's not just a supposition - it is fact.

As I said, I feel no differently about cruelty to animals than cruelty to defenseless humans. No difference in my opinion. Cruelty is cruety is cruelty - deliberately inflicting pain on a living creature.

[jno]

just as well the law's there to help clear away red mists. I'm not being sarcastic, I really feel much less strongly about mistreating animals than mistreating humans.

[micmak]

I did not open the link. I don't want Mrs MM to see me cry, and I will cry if I open that link.

[DrFilth]

There has never been a cat
Who couldn't calm me down
By walking slowly
Past my chair.
- Rod McKuen

[jno]

but it doesn't work both ways, Lottie, hence my heroin claim. Just because people on heroin started on dope (or mother's milk, for that matter), it doesn't mean that everyone on dope is going to end up on heroin. Likewise, though anyone who mistreats humans may have done the same to animals, it doesn't mean everyone who mistreats animals will go on to mistreat humans.

Fortunately the law punishes you for what you do, not what you are. If this guy's caught he will be sentenced for mistreating a cat - not for being a cruel person who will undoubtedly end up being cruel to humans.

[China Doll]

I'm with jno on this. The punishment has to fit the crime and while I think this act is repulsive, I do not put animals or their suffering on the same level as human.

[naomi24]

jno, cruelty is cruelty. There is no more or less.

[boxtops]

we all feel about this differently - I just know how I would feel if that Person did that to one of my catz.

[LoftyLottie]

I agree jno, a lot of people who mistreat animals don't go on to mistreat humans, but a lot do. Probably those that don't are to frightened to mistreat humans because of the repurcussions and punishment involved. They would if they could. My opinion anyway.

[jno]

cruelty is not a crime, naomi. Cruel actions may be.

Are you saying mistreating a cat should carry the same penalty as mistreating a child? What would you then feel if someone started a thread saying "This beast only got six months for kicking a baby - that's no more than he'd get for kicking a kitten!"?

(That's not a loaded question; I'm saying the law should definitely differentiate.)

[DrFilth]

if you are cruel to a human the human can speak up and tell you the details how does the animal tell you ?

[China Doll]

My cat is a savage little s0d boxy, he has a note on his file at the vet so it would be a good punishment for the fella to try it on him! ;0)

I'm joking of course, I do understand where people are coming from but I can never equate animal suffering with human suffering, I do think the child is a turd who should be caught and punished but I tend to agree with pretty much everything jno has said.

[boxtops]

The cat was lucky not to have its head whacked on the pavement too. I get incensed about pet cruelty because they can't answer back. I hear what jno's saying - but my cats are my deputy children, I could never say "it's only a cat".

[LoftyLottie]

China, I can't believe that a suffering animal feels less pain than a human, and I feel sympathy for both suffering animals and suffering humans. Why should we have to differentiate when it comes to our feelings about cruelty.

I am not saying that the punishment should be the same for, say, killing a cat as for killing a human, just that I don't feel more compassion for the human than the cat.

However, I feel that any caught inflicting cruelty on animals should be punished in some way and they are. In my opinion though the punishment should be more severe.

[naomi24]

It is the mind of the perpetrator that should be called into question, rather than who or what the victim is. We can't say that one act of cruelty is less barbaric than the next simply because the victim is an animal rather than a human being. Sick people are sick people.