Bosnian girl who drowned puppies found by police

Sep 04, 2010 11:28

Via
mero:

Police in Bosnia said that they have located the girl who caused global outrage this week after an online video of her surfaced, showing the blonde hurling six crying puppies into a river one by one.

The name of the girl, who is a juvenile, has not been released. But she was found after tips were received from animal protection groups in the country, London's Telegraph reported on Friday.

Police said the girl's parents will now be questioned.
Let me preface this by saying I certainly do not approve of what she did. I watched a bit of the video, and it was obvious she took a sadistic pleasure in throwing each pup into the turbulent waters.

That said: A lot of people in the West - like the commenter who says, "I don't know how things work in Bosnia but they must have shelters over there" - are incredibly naive. Much of Eastern Europe doesn't even have social services for humans, let alone pets.

I wonder how many people, especially the boyz of 4chan, who freaked out over the puppy vid would give a shit about all the Eastern-European women who are lured or coerced into the sex trade? Or the severity of domestic abuse in Russia? (Warning: Article is pretty graphic.)

And, honestly, "country folk" have been getting rid of unwanted animals like this since forever. They still do in much of the U.S., according to friends who live in the rural parts, because animal shelters are far away and/or overburdened, or they can't afford the relinquishment fee (charged to discourage people from abandoning animals on a whim). If they're at all compassionate, they wring the poor critter's neck, or kill it with a single, well-placed shot.

More often, they drown them in sacks, dump them in the wilderness, or dispose of them in other unpleasant ways. In one notorious case, an animal shelter in North Carolina even let people put their unwanted cats and dogs into a large metal box sitting in the hot sun. The poor things had no water or food, wallowed in their own waste, and had no protection from one another.

The girl in the vid should be prosecuted. The way she drowned the puppies, the glee she displayed, and the fact that she was OK with having her act video'd all bespeak sociopathy; and people who start with animals often progress to humans. That said, I wish people got as angry at human rights violations as they did over shit like this, especially since "shit like this" happens much more often than they probably think.

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