LOSING FAITH IN THE WORLD
I haven’t updated in the longest time and I will not try to update my life but I need to let the world, or my friends, what I really think about something I feel for the most.
You want to know what I hate the most? People who are cruel to animals. I heard on the news today that there was this mother and son who had a cat. They made this cat lie in muddy puddle on their front yard. They wouldn’t feed it. Plus when animal control wanted to take the cat away, the mother and son wouldn’t let the man leave their property with the cat. Why have a pet if one is going to abuse their responsibility?
A pet takes a lot of responsibility and if one can’t do it, one shouldn’t have a pet. I really despise anyone who is that stupid to hurt these poor animals. What have animals ever done to humans, as a whole? NOTHING. So why treat animals like a piece of crap?
What about the man who killed a litter of puppies? Or a man who is accused of beating and killing his dog with a golf club and sledgehammer? A SLEDGEHAMMER?? Who in their right minds can do something this horrible? How can we live in a world that is cruel to animals? It makes me cry every time I hear something awful done to animals. I am seriously disappointed in the world in which we live in. The fact that this stuff is happening everywhere all the time just kills me.
I am a HUGE animal lover and if you expect me to just sit back and not care, then you are thoroughly wrong. Anyone who can sit back and not care doesn’t have a heart. Why isn’t there any law and anything that Bush is doing to stop this? Oh is it because he is a jerk? Yes I do believe so. Can’t the horribleness just stop? Can’t we all treat each other and ANIMAL with care? Every time that I see a picture of a dog or a cat or any other animal abused, I lose faith in the world. I cry inside. I am deeply hurt. It’s not only men who do this, it’s also women.
Do these people find pleasure in hurting animals? Do they think it is fun? If I lose faith in the world, then what can I have faith in? I want you to read some news about animal cruelty.
A 40-year-old Covington man was charged with animal cruelty for allegedly beating his daughter's Labrador retriever with a golf club, then stabbing it with the broken club handle. John Forrest McCafferty, 40, was charged with one count of first-degree animal cruelty in King County Superior Court. The dog was treated at an animal clinic and survived after the incident at the family home Jan. 22. McCafferty's 21-year-old daughter called 911 when she couldn’t stop her intoxicated father from attacking the dog, charging papers says. The papers allege McCafferty told his daughter that the dog bit him. He is scheduled to be arraigned at the King County Regional Justice Center in Kent on Feb. 7. If convicted as charged, he could face up to a year in jail.
An Adams man is in jail today, charged with a slew of misdemeanor animal abuse charges and a felony charge for allowing an animal to die from lack of care. Jason Corbett was arrested yesterday after a multi-agency raid at the home of a relative on County Route 84 in the town of Adams. He faces 22 misdemeanor cruelty counts, 10 shelter law violations, and one felony cruelty charge. He is being held in the Jefferson County Jail on $5,000 bail. Corbett additionally faces a probation violation charge. A total of 13 animals were taken from two residences in the raid. The plight of the animals first came to the attention of authorities in September of last year, when an anonymous tip led them to find the animals in poor health with only minimal care being provided. At the time, Corbett was allowed to keep the animals after promising he would work on improving their conditions and seek medical care for one dog that was suffering from tumors. SPCA Director Linda Miles says the animals were found with open wounds, malnourished, and infected with parasites, and the one animal most in need of care in September had died due to lack of treatment. The animals are currently being housed at the SPCA and being given a special diet to help get them back to health. When asked if the dogs had been physically abused as well as neglected, Miles couldn’t rule out the possibility. ”I can’t really say. They had a lot of wounds, some of them may have been from coon hunting, but some of them were not. They were either….well, there were chunks and things in different places that were gone, and skin abrasions, and a number of things that we really haven’t sorted out what happened to them yet.” Miles stressed that without the involvement of the anonymous tipster, these animals may have all eventually suffered the fate of the one that passed away, and urges people who see such abuse to call authorities. ”This is a case where these animals were so far back off the road that you couldn’t hear them from the road, so had it not been for an anonymous tip, these animals would have probably been dead in a month or so…If you know of something that is going on that is bad, report it.”
A Clarksburg woman arrested for animal cruelty last week has lost ownership of 28 dogs, which were removed from her home by animal services officers and county police. Maria Yordan Torres, 52, was arrested Jan. 18 and charged with 11 counts of inflicting pain on an animal and 21 counts of failing to provide to provide sufficient food, veterinary care, air, space and shelter, among other things. She posted $15,000 bond and was released from the Montgomery County Detention Center. Torres has been a teacher in the county school system since 1986 and currently teaches Spanish at Montgomery Blair High School. In an interview at her Dancrest Drive home in the Fountain View neighborhood Monday, Torres said she was a responsible breeder. ‘‘I don’t abuse dogs,” Torres said. ‘‘I have been an animal lover. I see this has been taken out of proportion because one dog was found dead.” Police said 27 of the dogs removed from her home, some of them puppies, were of the Coton de Tulear breed. One of them was an adult beagle. None of them were licensed in Montgomery County, according to Ashley Owen, a spokeswoman for the county Humane Society. All of the animals were turned over to the Montgomery County Animal Shelter, which is operated by the Humane Society. Owen said the Coton de Tulear breed is a rare one that was re-introduced to Europe and America only 20 years ago. She said Torres had been selling the dogs for $2,000 each. According to charging documents, county animal services inspected Torres’ property on Nov. 4, as part of Torres’ application for a fancier’s license, a kind of kennel license. The inspector found an overwhelming smell of urine in the basement where the dogs were kept in crates. Many of them, including puppies, were sitting in urine and feces. On Dec. 28, inspectors returned to the property. No one answered the door, but barking was heard inside the house and in the backyard. A dead Coton de Tulear was found in the yard. A veterinarian determined that ‘‘exposure due to poor body condition and lack of quality hair coat” likely contributed to the dog’s death. It was also determined that the dog had not been eating properly. On Jan. 4, officers executed a search warrant at the house and removed all the dogs. ‘‘I had the dogs for breeding,” Torres said Monday. ‘‘But they were not all for breeding. These people took all my dogs. They didn’t leave a single dog.” The Humane Society has placed 18 of the Coton de Tulear dogs in new homes, Owen said. Seven of them - four adults and 3 puppies - are in foster care and in need of good permanent homes. Two of the dogs have special needs and one is still being held at the shelter, Owen said. She said that Coton be Tulears are usually lively and boisterous, but the dogs from Torres’ home are now shy and timid after being confined to cages their whole lives. ‘‘When they first arrived on January 4th they were dirty,” Owen said. ‘‘Some of them were too terrified to be groomed so we held off for a while. After evaluation they were scared, not potty trained, and they didn’t know what toys were.” The dogs were examined upon their arrival at the shelter, all of the Coton de Tulears had overgrown toenails and some degree of matting. Many of the dogs were malnourished and had ear infections. One dog had severe dental disease. Owen called the treatment of the dogs a tragedy. Those interested in adopting the seven dogs still in need of homes are instructed to visit the Human Society Web site at www.mchumane.org for information about contacting the animals’ foster families. The foster families will arrange a visit for the adoptive candidates, who must also fill out an adoption application and undergo a home visit from Humane Society staff. Because the animals have not been around people, they are still getting used to human contact and families with young children would not be appropriate. ‘‘We are looking for an owner that will be patient and committed to rehab,” Owen said.
WHAT IS WITH THESE ABUSIVE PEOPLE AND HURTING ANIMALS? WHY ISN’T ANYTHING BEING DONE TO STOP THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL????? DOESN’T ANYONE CARE??