Hopefully, this was a mercy killing, as the animal appeared to be injured on the opposite side of its' rear quarters. Perhaps they thought shooting it while it was sleeping would have been the less painful thing to do...but as some of us saw, it didn't go as quickly as perhaps they'd planned ("Damn, it's still alive!" wouldn't indicate an inclination to keep torturing the animal).
I agree it does appear to already have an injury to to the inside of its left thigh. And as the soldiers were not laughing but one even stepped up to give it a point blank shot I think they were just trying to put it down. It is taken out of context on a foreign site where I cannot even read the title.
No fair judgments can be made of this video without seeing the few minutes before and after.
And yes, that's a real porno. Swear to God. It's available to rent at the knicknack store/hippie barn/head shop near my school.
I am not going to ask how you know.
um...what's the pleasure in that? I mean a rat, sure. But a puppy. Even a dog of any kind. What's the point?
What is the difference? Puppies are cute and make good pets? My brother had two pet rats and they made great pets. People have pet snakes but hardly a word is mentioned about killing a snake.
Heck, we could look at dingo killings in Australia to draw an even better comparison. Or here in Kentucky if a coyote is spotted in rural areas they are killed by wildlife officers because it means they have begun hunting pets and a small child out in the wrong place can become prey. And a coyote is basically a dog without humans influencing their genetic heritage.
People kill animals all the time, and we eat them all the time. Heck, we raise them just so we can kill them. Why do we suddenly have such a concern when said animal is closely related to our pets?
I mean, I agree cruelty to animals just to be cruel is not a good thing. It tends to be an outlet for rage that could eventually become directed at humans. But at the same time that one act could be all the relief he needs. But we have to look at it from that angle, not as if he is some criminal. Just get the man some kind of psychological evaluation and determine if he is still mentally fit to be a soldier. I mean, we did train him to be desensitized to the act of killing, perhaps this is just a sign he just lacks the mental ability to handle that.
Disclaimer: I don't think image is in fact the issue here - just a bit of my own devil's advocate.
The image of what a US soldier should be is an excuse to defend the fact that we just can't help to see a poor, innocent puppy harmed. There is an image issue here, but it is the image of someone doing it to our own pet dogs that is what gets us.
In the end, it's ironic that some people say how animals are primitive, stupid, pointless, deadly yada yada yet it's us who are going around shooting them and stealing what is essentially their planet (they were here first after all). Again, we say "human life over animal life", we're destroying the planet...what right do we have to keep it instead of animals?
Wait aren't we just evolved animals? Unless you are a creationist, in which case we are masters of the Earth.
Besides, making it sound as if humans are to blame for all the problems in nature is bad. Animals were going extinct from their own behavior long before we came along. I have seen overpopulation of deer and what happens. Their food supplies run short and in Kentucky this year we had an outbreak of blue tongue disease. Were it not for wildlife officials actively working with hunters to kill and bring the infected deer into an area where they could be properly disposed of it could have been an epidemic that killed out most of the population.
My point is that animals were doing a good job of killing each other off before we got involved. Instinctive behavior causes animals to deplete their own food supplies and destroy the ecosystem around them. We are just another animal doing what animals do. The only difference is that we can recognize when we should and shouldn't do it.
With that said, considering the overpopulation of cats and dogs I am surprised we don't have a huge euthanasia program. It's probably cheaper than spay and neuter. Odd how if a wild animal gets overpopulated we set hunters out to do their thing, but when domestic animals do it we just castrate them. Really, which is more humane?
I would like to point out that culls of stray dogs and puppys are not uncommon in war zones and disaster areas. They pose a huge threat to people in terms of attacks and disease.
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...stray dogs of any nature in an area were food is scarce are dangerous, particularly if they are running in packs. It doesn't take long for a puppy to grow to a full size dog, many of which are capable of outrunning and taking down adults.
I believe this is an often overlooked aspect. No one thinks about how in borderline third-world countries like Iraq and Afghanistan that cute puppies aren't much of a pet because they aren't cheap to keep. In some places dogs are food, not pets.
Scaff raises a good point, can killing stray dogs be considered to be standard procedure, only this one made it on You Tube?
) but I used to have 2 cats and a black goldfish. One of the cats strayed away from the house and got hit by a car, and the second died under a tree when it was (get this) 24 human years old. Freaking 19 years older than me when it died!
