Horrible Act Of Animal Cruelty.

geeze we had a strange dog outside with no signs of rabies or anything else, and my sisters friend went up to it and was petting it. =_=

So if you brutally butcher an animal for food, but then never actually eat it..

What is that?

As long as the animal knows he is going to be eaten, he doesn't feel pain?

I agree completely with your point. This is a biased article and we don't know anything about these dogs or the entire situation. Condemning someone to jail BEFORE knowing all the facts would be just plain reckless of us.

Trying to justify eating meat as the source of all bad things in this world is just not going to end well for you.

Whether or not you want to admit it, plants are living things too and they're killed to give you your salads. And how does that make you better than anyone else?

You're right. It doesn't.

Just read that a few times. A bit biased don't you think?

Absolutely no background info besides "they were let out by accident".

Big huge *** dogs or not, if they werethere was no reason anyone would have called 911 or grab a handgun, run outside in front one of the dogs and shoot it in the face.

Or you know.. the dog could have been on his property? And he had something to protect like the situation I pointed out above.

It's a harsh reality we live in. Certain animals must die for others to survive. blah blah blah circle of life. Comparing killing for survival to slavery is a bit exaggerated and kind of a cop out argument. I guess my main point is i value human life over animals when it comes down to choosing one or the other. [/quote]

I wasn't comparing it slavery. I was showing you how your argument was completey stupid.

Your argument was:

"It's been done for thousands of years so it must be right."

Just because something has been done for thousands of years, doesn't make it right.

So, if you brutally butcher a plant for food, but then never actually eat it..

What is that?

As long as the plant knows it is going to be eaten, it doesn't feel pain?

Just because people have been saying "Killing animals for food is animal cruelty" for thousands of years, doesn't make it right.

The only way to remedy this situation is for all of us to stop eating. If you eat any kind of food, no matter how small, something was killed to create it.

So now we all have to starve, eventually die, and then there would be no more animal cruelty! See, it's easy!

The guy was being told by 911 and a neighbor to stay inside, to me that means these dogs specifically had done something to him before or he has a past traumatic experience with great danes as I did. If a dog is friendly I have no problem with it if a dog runs toward me barking aggressively and showing teeth for no reason and gets within reach of my hands I'm snapping its neck. I'm sorry but it was a dog we thought we knew and trusted in reality I was the second kid the dog had attacked and our "friends" who where the owners never told us or anyone about the first attack either.
Point is their is a lot to this story being left out and I wont sign a petition to charge someone with a crime only given one persons side of what happened.

Hell, we need plants for oxygen. Chicken doesn't give me oxygen. IT HAS NO USE FOR ME EXCEPT SITTIN' IN MAH TUMMY

No one's trying to say the guy in the OP was doing the right thing.

Then again, dogs are most likely to attack when they're tired, worn out, and generally weak. It doesn't mention the whole story but it does say that much.

We should all stop breathing too, poor oxygen and nitrogen particles being slaughtered.

Cutting the grass Vs. Cutting an Animals head off.

Nuff Said.

It is all animal cruelty, no matter what reason you have for being cruel to that animal.

If you kill a human being for food, is that not murder?

Doesn't (carnivorous) pets eat meat too? Should we tell them the bad news?

FTFY. your arguments are lacking full context just like this article.

Grass is a living organism as well.

Just because "higher evolved" animals have pain receptors as part of their defense systems doesn't mean it's completely wrong or right if they don't.

I can't speak from experience, but I imagine being cut in half and having to regrow that ***and reliving it every week would hurt a LOT more than dieing nigh-instantly. But that's just me.

Just wait til Aliens come and start using us a food source! I think a lot of you will change your tune about eating animals being cruel pretty quick!

Piccolo.

Everything feels pain, whether it's living or non-living. It just portrays it differently. That's irrelevant.

If your definition of pain is being altered in some way physically, then yeah.

Cutting an animals head off Vs. cutting a human's head off

Nuff said.

Hope it's lead.

Trees are as much a living thing as humans are. They may not be able to build skyscrapers or make Shakespeare, but they live, breathe, grow and serve a purpose just like any other living object.

Only difference really is that we put ourselves above everything else. So if you're going to truly believe we're on the same level as cats/dogs, etc. you can't make exceptions to other things simply because they're not mammals.