Animal cruelty cases

I only know the girl who knows the people involved in the cat shooting online, but I'll tell her about the Feds thing! She says she's tried in the past to talk to the police about that sort of thing and the reaction is always "Whatcha gonna do, that's just how it is." Just sad...

Any animal can be a pet. A pet is defined as:

1. An animal kept for amusement or companionship.
2. An object of the affections.

I think dogs, cats, goldfish and snails can fall under that definition. The bottom line is animal cruelty is animal cruelty. Animal abusers are among the sickest deviants in society. In my mind they should be prosecuted just as child molesters, murders and rapists are.

i thought myth-busters decided that a gold fish has some sort of long term memory because adams (i think it was adam) fish kept going to the red ring for food everyday when it would be introduced into the tank. either way, it is still cruelty if not to the fish, to the boy.

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Originally Posted by mr~python

i thought myth-busters decided that a gold fish has some sort of long term memory because adams (i think it was adam) fish kept going to the red ring for food everyday when it would be introduced into the tank. either way, it is still cruelty if not to the fish, to the boy.

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They did. That was a good episode! Regardless, you are right, cruelty is cruelty.

IT was Jamie's fish that associated the red rings, and they actually went through a maze to get to it, quite accompished goldfish. Adam's actually died except 2 that never learned a darn thing.
(Have I mentioned I know them?)
Wolfy

right, i always get there names mixed up. i live near them, about 45 min. where do you know them from?

I can understand where you guys are coming from with the goldfish, hopefully I didn't upset anyone too much with my comment. In the end I guess it is always better to err on the side of caring more =)

Geeze Wolfy I'd be worried with friends like those two LOL. Kind of "hey Wolfy come over for dinner...hey mind just standing here for a sec...no really no worries about why my brother is wiring things up nearby...really...no sweat...excuse me while I dive behind this concrete wall!" :P

Actually they are so much mroe careful than you would think, especially after 3 seasons of finding out weird stuff does explode unexpectedly. LOL. Funny, thing neither has any brothers, which is why I suspect they turned out how they have.
Cannibal Monkey, I totally understand. A lot of folks won't think much of something they have never been attached to, and society today tends to push the ideas like.. It's just a *fill in with fish, snake, rat, etc* to justify the ways that animals are treated. I treat my feeder rats better than some of my clinets treat their supposedly precious dog pets. I've had a ton of people inform me that "Snakes don't matter, they are reptiles, so they don't even feel pain or anything." I inform them differently and usually let them meet Bill. Most people who will consent to meeting one of the ball pythons, esp Bill, will at least come away thinking that snakes are not so bad after all, and most leave with the idea firmly implanted that they are pets.
Even just telling people that you have multiple snakes(in my case I own 48 ball pythons) makes them think, #1 Wow, that person is WEIRD! but also #2 Snakes can't be THAT bad if she has a bunch, and gee they haven't done anything bad to her.
Rambling on again.. sorry.
Wolfy