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« on: July 17, 2008, 09:27:31 AM » |
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I was just reading yesterday's paper and there was a story about a strangled kitten. In Buffalo, NY, someone reported a dead kitten 9:30 AM Sunday. The poor little thing had a shoelace tied around its neck, and the still attached shoe was thrown over a suspension line for a power pole. Someone from the power company removed it at 9 PM Sunday!!! I know I am being irrational by hating an entire town, but that's where I am right now. How utterly callous can you get? Leaving it up for the enjoyment of the depraved perverts, and the sickness and disgust of the normal people. I don't care what species it was. A living being was hideously killed! And it wasn't even an electrified line. The poor little thing could have been taken down right away and an effort made to find the sick-o! The paper I was reading was the Poughkeepsie Journal. I haven't looked if it's in their on-line version or if it appeared in a Buffalo paper. I am too nauseated to look.  |
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To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ~ Isaac Asimov
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Sandi K
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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2008, 09:32:42 AM » |
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Oh Arlo, that is heartbreaking! What is it with people these days? Have they become so de-sensitized to everything that allowing that poor kitten to stay there so long and not want to find out what happened and who did it immediately is so unthinkable? I will go light a candle for the poor thing. I am angry and feel like Im going to vomit over this. I just dont want to even think what that poor little thing went thru before it died. People are sick. Whoever did this to that poor kitten are scum and I can only hope what goes around, comes around for them. |
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catmom5
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2008, 09:44:23 AM » |
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Words fail me!!
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« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2008, 09:51:12 AM » |
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In situations like this, I prefer to NOT use the word people when referring to the sick-o's who do things like this. I prefer the term BACTERIA to describe these things that walk the Earth. The shoe obviously belongs to someone............... This is just another stab in the heart for all of us |
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If cats could talk......They wouldn't
Tortie cats are like Almond Joys........Very sweet and a little nuts
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Sandi K
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« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2008, 10:31:47 AM » |
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You are right Peg, I edited my post just now.
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Arlo
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« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2008, 12:05:23 PM » |
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MCP, you raise an excellent point! I don't like the term predator. A predator is a lion eating a gazelle. That's a natural thing. Someone can be completely psychotic without being evil, so psychotic isn't the right word either. Unnatural, perverted, depraved, evil? And then the utter coldness and heartlessness of the city and their power company, for leaving the poor little thing on display. This story is going to get me. Sometimes I have to deal with animal abuse, and I end up losing sleep. |
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To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ~ Isaac Asimov
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« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2008, 12:30:17 PM » |
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This has left me shaking.
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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2008, 12:39:31 PM » |
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Arlo.......Please don't let this story tear you down. There are bacteria out there that come in all shapes and sizes. In all my years of rescue work, I have come across many horrid scenarios. This is what keeps me going.......The desire to help as many as possible so that these stories become extinct. This is why you volunteer at the shelter Arlo. We can be mad at the town and mad at the power company.............it seems to me that too many that walk this Earth are complacent or unbothered by what the innocent are often subject to.  It appears as if there will be an investigation http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/ontarioniagara/story/392196.html |
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If cats could talk......They wouldn't
Tortie cats are like Almond Joys........Very sweet and a little nuts
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« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2008, 12:56:42 PM » |
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OMG, I am sick to My stomach right now.
Peg is right- They are Bacteria, and should be delt with the same way.
Arlo, Peg, Myself, and all those in rescue. This is why i sometimes want to give up, because it gets to Me so bad I just can't understand or live with it. Then another one of Gods creatures needs Me, and there i am again. I think some of us might be here for that purpose.
I don't know, but if they had a trial, i'd like to be on a jury.
When when people realize animals are not a peice of furniture but to love and cherish?
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Sandi K
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« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2008, 01:45:11 PM » |
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Trudy, I treat my furniture way better than those creeps treated that poor kitty....
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Poco
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« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2008, 02:22:34 PM » |
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This seems to be a sickening case of sadistic animal abuse and on top of that, I am concerned that the power company did not remove the victim faster. If this upsets adults to read about it, what about the possibility that kids saw this? What message about life does that send them?
I do think that only the power company should ever attempt removal from a line, but there should be a rapid response. They mention the name of the company in the article Peg found.
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"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." ----General Douglas MacArthur
"American GIs are not toy soldiers to be moved around on some global game board." ----General Colin Powell
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Arlo
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« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2008, 02:39:43 PM » |
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In New York State, what happened is felony animal cruelty. They sure didn't take it seriously. IMHO the electric company and police should have taken care of it immediately. It horrifies me to think of children exposed to that.
I am thinking about writing to the mayor of Buffalo to tell him what I think of his police and power company.
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« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2008, 03:25:20 PM » |
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Public support of an animal cruelty investigation always helps, even if the state has a felony law. They have one here, too. (Though there are exemptions for research labs apparently.)
I guess it is possible that the local authorities didn't pressure the power company hard enough. It sure wouldn't hurt to ask questions, Arlo. A 12 hour delay is shocking. If you Google the power company name, you can find a contact for them, too.
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"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." ----General Douglas MacArthur
"American GIs are not toy soldiers to be moved around on some global game board." ----General Colin Powell
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« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2008, 07:53:29 PM » |
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I'm living the dream.
Pet food posts are solely observations on my pets' reactions to the foods I feed them, not recommendations.
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Arlo
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« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2008, 07:08:26 AM » |
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Contact info:
Michael J. DeGeorge (police spokesman)
Buffalo Police Department
74 Franklin Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
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National Grid (power company)
716-832-2400.
Peg's newspaper article also has a "contact us" page.
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