What kind of country does this?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

When I was about three or so, I was electrocuted by accident for a few mins before I got rescued. I can imagine it very easily. It's absolutely cruel. And they do it because it's CHEAP. It makes me wish there was Hell/Purgatory or karma.

I was electrocuted too, when I was around 8 or 9. We had an old refrigerator that was plugged in down in our basement, somehow I think some old metal window fan fell down behind it and damaged the electrical cord, or else we'd gotten water seeping in around the back of it that we couldn't see - anyway I don't know what actually caused it but I went down one day to get something out of there and grabbed the metal handle to open the door and ZAP. Threw me backwards pretty hard, which I guess was lucky because the force of it was enough to pull my hand away once the door swung all the way open and I wasn't heavy enough to tip the thing over when I went down.

What really pissed me off was that I'd been telling my mother for days that I thought I was getting a bit of a shock, like a static electricity thing you get in the winter, whenever I touched the handle - but she didn't believe me.

I had nightmares for years after that about being struck by lightning. And I opened the door of that damn thing with a wooden broom handle until we got rid of it, even though I was assured the problem had long since been taken care of.

I know how it feels, I just can't imagine doing that to some poor animal as a means of euthanization. I know the sad reality is that unwanted domestic critters end up being put down but geez.

I got thrown for a ride when I tryed to remove a stuck prong from the electric socket, with metal plyers/pliers. Whew! Electricity is rough stuff. Nothing humane about that.

[UnderseaLcpl]

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.