Rampant Animal Cruelty Written by Brad Burchards

This may hurt those who are "cruel" to animals but this may be your bitter medicine to finally take. I read an article again in the local newspapers about a certain Filipino youngster who hung his pet dog on a backyard clothesline using laundry clips and took photos of the poor pup while it was suspended. It may seem really trivial or funny at first but what if the dog owner was the one hung like a wet shirt and the dog took his picture?

Just a few months ago another Filipino student was found guilty of animal cruelty after holding a kitten by its tail and slamming it on the floor and finally stomping the kitten to death. He too had the audacity to brag about it on a social networking site. Well, compared to the kid who hung his pooch on the clothesline the kitten killer is way more sadistic and definitely needs to have his head checked for some loose or missing screws.

We cannot say these are isolated cases in our country. Even highly-developed countries have their own share of animal-rights abuses. I stumbled upon an article wherein a Jewish Rabbi Council had condemned a dog to death by stoning simple because they believed the soul of a dead lawyer who cursed them had reincarnated himself into the said dog. Are they really serious? I thought only Indians believed in reincarnation and they are pretty weird at times. But how would society react to such nonsense? Stoning a dog to death because in it resides the soul of a despised lawyer? What would they think of next? Boil a pack of baboons because Hitler and his merry band of SS henchmen had reincarnated into those red-butted monkeys who are now bent on world domination?

Though I don't have a pet of my own (I'm just too darn lazy) but I love animals such as dogs in particular and it makes my hair stand hearing such barbaric treatment of animals when we know that pets are there to keep us company not as vessels for us to exorcise our inner demons on to. What we read and hear on the news is merely the tip of the iceberg. Some companies even use animals for product testing which again crosses the borders of ethics and practicality (better them than us humans).

Among the first recorded cases of animal cruelty would've been the dog that was shot into space by the Russians and the chimp which the Americans had also blasted into space. Planet of the Apes should be used in schools to teach kids not to pick on their pets otherwise what we see in the movies might just become reality in the future.

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