good people are nice to animals. bad people aren't.
Okay, in the past week I've been running across what seems to be story after story about animal cruelty. Take, for example, today's article about the Ministry of Defence ending goat testing on submarines. WHAT? We've been giving goats the bends? For how long? Why is my taxpayer money funding this?
There was also a great New York Times story about rehabilitating the dogs that were rescued from Michael Vick's pitbull fighting ring. The scale of the abuse is just mind-blowing - including one who had all her teeth pulled out so she could be forcibly mated with other dogs. I just can't imagine how people can do this to other critters; it's such a small step between animal abuse and sociopathy. At least a lot of them have loving new homes with places like Best Friends Shelter and BADRAP.
Finally, in a somewhat perverse example of animals gettin' their own back, a number of workers in a pork processing facility have picked up an obscure and debilitating neurological illness from - you guessed it - aerosolized pig brains. Okay, you probably didn't guess that. Also, you might feel like barfing. I know I do.
ETA: I forgot to add a link to the story of Puddles who rose from the dead as Panchito. Which goes to show that sometimes people love animals a little too much.
There was also a great New York Times story about rehabilitating the dogs that were rescued from Michael Vick's pitbull fighting ring. The scale of the abuse is just mind-blowing - including one who had all her teeth pulled out so she could be forcibly mated with other dogs. I just can't imagine how people can do this to other critters; it's such a small step between animal abuse and sociopathy. At least a lot of them have loving new homes with places like Best Friends Shelter and BADRAP.
Finally, in a somewhat perverse example of animals gettin' their own back, a number of workers in a pork processing facility have picked up an obscure and debilitating neurological illness from - you guessed it - aerosolized pig brains. Okay, you probably didn't guess that. Also, you might feel like barfing. I know I do.
ETA: I forgot to add a link to the story of Puddles who rose from the dead as Panchito. Which goes to show that sometimes people love animals a little too much.