This one stuck a nerve,

There was a story out here in LA about these teens setting 2 golden lab puppies on fire, and people saw the puppies running down the street screaming. I'm not a violent guy, and what I'm about to say I regret doing, but couldn't contain my anger. I saw a kid 2 blocks from my house beating this german sheppard with a skate board. He was clobbering him in the head, and I walked up behind the kid, and grabbed him by the neck and threw him into the wall and slammed his head into the concrete wall. I asked him where he lives, and I dragged him to his house. His parents were beyond enraged with what he did. I showed the parents the dog who was sitting by a car with blood on his face, and his eye severely swollen, to the point the dog couldn't even open it. I went back a few days later to apologize to the kid and parents what I did to their son, and they said they would have done the same thing if they were me. I still regret what I did to that kid, but this poor animal was screaming and was wobbling around from being dazed.

V-man, you are my HERO :love: :salute:

Some times People need to learn the hard way. when I was 5 my friend and I were grabing the tails of her goats and pulling them around. We both had long har in brades and her mother grabed us and swong us around by our hair. I fully remember what she said to me like it just happened. "You think pulling their tails was fun?! how do you like being drug around by your brades?! HURTS HUH!!" If it wasnt for her I wouldnt have understood what I was doing.

:sweeet: I'd do the same thing.. if the kid around my age, LOL. I dont hurt young peoples. Not my style. Not how I roll. And you are lucky you didnt get assualt charges either.. man you'd be spending time where you dont wanna be at. But seriosuly.. we need more Animal saints to be parading our streets nowadays...:P

Vomitore, you rock man. nothing about what you did was wrong. i would have done the same thing if i saw something like that, unless the guy was bigger then me ofcourse. i definitely would have done something though.

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Originally Posted by mr~python

Vomitore, you rock man. nothing about what you did was wrong. i would have done the same thing if i saw something like that, unless the guy was bigger then me ofcourse. i definitely would have done something though.

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I agree, here, here. That is how I would roll.....

On to the snake, (sorry for the initial venting session)
He is still alive, Mike and I just got back from the vet. His third trip in. He has some pretty narly abrasions and abcesess but he is perking up quite a bit. I think if I have to wash him anymore I'm going to chap my hands. At this point he just needs a good healthy shed. Either way he is on antibiotics and he is moving around more and more each day.

We recieved a distress call about four hours ago. Eastern Box Turtle hit by car.
I am choosing not to chow pictures as it is very, very graphic to say the least. I think I should spare you guys. Anyhow we brought her in and sadly had to euthanize her.
We also had to check her for eggs as she seemed pretty big. I don't know their egg cycle off the top of my head, so once she had gone peacefully we checked, but a no go. May she rest in peace the poor girl.
I'll keep you guys updated on the water snake.
Rusty

I'm sorry to hear about the snake. People can be so mean sometimes (especially to animals) I once saw a car purposely swerve to hit a squirrel crossing the road. I was walking by and sat down astonished. There are those times that surprise me too.....I was driving on a busy road and traffic had come to a halt. I found out that a squirrel ran under someones car and he stopped both lanes (going N and S) to get the lillte guy to safety.

this is y i am soooo happy they made harming animals and animal cruelty a felony in most states.... really sad to hear that happen to the lil guy :(

i dont think this is as much ignorance as it is cruelty. nabout a year ago i was skateboarding on my driveway minding my own buisness when i hear 2 5 graders saying "yeah kick him!" and other comments. i then walk over and see them kicking a water snake on a front tire of there tire spokes. i immediately asked them why they were killing it and they said"it crawlled in their tire spoke when they were riding bikes and thought it was a cottonmouth.i grabbed both by their ears and dragged them to my house(about 20 feet away) and interrogated them(lol). one of the 5 graders went field herping with me once and i gave him a guide to all fl snakes. an hour later(lol again) both kids tell me that they knew it was a watersnake and they were handling it for 5 minutes and then got bored with it and decided to kill it.

The cruelty of people never ceases to depress me. When I was about 13, we were up at my dad's gun-club cabin. We drove over to Rushford Lake, and the adults were off doing something (think peeing, hehe).. well there were these 2 boys who were looking at something. My best friend and I went over to see, and it turns out they'd found a garter snake who had a toad in its mouth. They had removed the toad and were sticking a firecracker into the snake's mouth, and had matches in their hands to light it. I completely went off on them; not something I usually did, being a shy kid and all; I hurled myself at them, grabbed the snake before they could even get the firework in there, and tossed it into some bushes..
it makes me shudder to think, what was going through these psycho's heads.
V-it's pretty cool that you saved that poor dog.. something I would definately intervene on if I saw it happening. :(
And Rusty, I send all of my most positive thoughts and wishes to you and your new rescue case there. I hope he pulls through.