Sad Justice
Posted by Lynnster on July 25, 2008
Well, I’m somewhat pleased to report that arrests have been made in the horrible animal cruelty case involving the death of a 9-month-old Golden Retriever puppy in my home county that I wrote about earlier this week here, but it is with a heavy heart I pass along the new information that was reported.
The men arrested were aged 34, 20, and 16 years old. Needless to say, I’d like to smack the 34-year-old upside the head myself.
The pit bull involved was a stray who was found by the teenager the previous week. AND – the pit bull was of puppy-ish age too. Sigh.
According to the Sheriff’s Department investigator, the three took the two pups behind the house, tied them BOTH to trees, and forced them to fight. The investigator said, “They had seen it on TV and thought it would be neat.”
The investigator also said about the pit bull pup, who was taken to the county shelter: “The sad thing was the pit bull was just as friendly as it could be…”
While I am glad this case was investigated and not swept under the proverbial rug and arrests were made, needless to say my heart is just broken over this case even more than it already was, and I’ll probably have nightmares for a while to come and difficulty shaking the thought of how terrified and how much pain BOTH those puppies must have been in.
Not even full grown dogs. Puppies. I don’t understand people.
I’m not particularly an advocate of the incarceration system in this country, but locking the two adults up and throwing away the key is better treatment than they deserve. If it were up to me, again, I’d tie them to trees and set a pack of hungry wolves or lions on them. The juvenile – maybe the same but at least he did apparently tearfully confess as to what happened. I hope the kid gets the psychological counseling he obviously needs to have been involved in such a sick and violent act.
But James Dean Taylor and William Andrew Tomlin, III? You two can rot. It’s better than either of you deserve.
