Sadly enough, this kind of thing happens all around the world all the time, and even here in the US. My experience is mostly with horses, rather than dogs, but this kind of inhumane treatment of animals is disturbingly common.
I once assisted a horse rescue in the retrieval of some abused and neglected horses from a "ranch" that, in addition to beating horses to saddle-break them, cut the throats of lame or diseased horses and dumped the bodies in a dry stock tank.
As perturbatory as that is, what's even wierder is that it makes no sense to do such a thing. Most souless a-holes who want to slaughter ailing horses or severe problem horses at least send them to be made into glue, dogfood, horsehair goods, and various other things. Slitting their throats and dumping them in a ditch is not only evil and wasteful, it's also stupid because it helps to spread disease to the healthy horses in the area. I only wish I'd had a chance to confront the (insert 45-letter combi-cussword here) who owned the place so I could have horse-whipped him to death, or at least punched him.
I don't often agree with everyone's favorite crazy animal rights group to bash, PETA, but things like that make me see things from their perspective a little more.
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