Comments on: Burned cat was 6th pet torture of summer

By: Charles Domm

Charles Domm — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:45:41 +0000

Indeed, the respect for life, health, taking care of the self, family and community stems from family and neighborhood experiences. When parents don’t bother to see what their children are doing, and the kids may be enticed or influenced to be abusive to harmless domestic animals, who knows what dangerous paths grow from it? There needs to be lessons and discipline incorporated into community living for many to understand “right” from “wrong” or hurtful thinking and actions. Obviously, if the family settings lack good values, the community members might organize to do some education in the streets through some “courses” in pet care offered by pet owners who care. In our rural areas, we have 4H Clubs and Future Farmers plus our local Agriculture Departments offer free courses for any who will attend. In the urban settings, similar education is much more difficult, but the education about how to care for living things, especially pets, should be offered with the help of local veterinarians and the likes of SPCA working with the community.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:47:00 +0000

This is totally digusting to me. It makes me sick to think we are raising children in our communities to destroy our own pets. I believe the schools need to teach more on caring for God’s animals. This poor cat did nothing to be treated in this fashion. These boys, or whomever did this needs to learn a valuable lesson from this. I pray this cat will live. This is sickening! I hope witnesses will step forward in this case.

By: Anne'n'Spencer

Anne'n'Spencer — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:37:46 +0000

This is just terrible to hear and to think about. Aside from the horrible sufferings of these animals, we need to think about the fact that there seems to be a generation of kids out there who are absolutely devoid of any empathy. If they’ll do this to animals, they’ll also do it to people eventually. What’s to stop them? What exactly is the task force doing? I hope Gabrielle will recover and be placed with a good home.