R.I.P. Princess and Daisy Duke
December 29th 2008 21:00
The death of an animal never fails to move me. In fact, I find myself crying a lot these days when I read about cruelty to animals.
Today marks the first year anniversary of the death of Princess, a tabby who was microwaved to death by four teenage boys in Camrose, Canada. Just over two years ago, a collie-Labrador cross dog called Daisy Duke was tortured to death in Didsbury, Canada. Reading about what happened to her brought tears to my eyes.
Camrose cat killing
Daisy Duke killing
Googling, I came across a web site with the following taglines:
Wild animals never kill for sport.
Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
The next time you wonder why I hate people so much, think about what happened to Princess and Daisy Duke and countless of other animals who have been neglected, abused or even tortured to death. Enough said.
Daisy Foundation web site
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Comment by Kleonaptra
Kalikapsychosis
And I have to disagree. Well, maybe just in the case of domestic animals. Im not sure about wild ones. But cats and dogs can spend hours killing their prey, just for fun. Our cats arent hungry, so they never eat the prey, they just spend hours torturing it. We have a serious problem at the moment as the colt has decided to challenge our gelding for the dominant position. If left alone, he will kill him. I ran out at 2am the other morning after hearing the screams, and the colt would have most certainly tortured him to death. They arent literally being mean but they just dont care. Its very similar to what humans do.
Comment by Queenie
Quirky Folk
Quirky Queenie
Comment by Kleonaptra
Kalikapsychosis
Horses in general arent a danger to each other, mares and geldings will fight and sometimes do some pretty bad damage. Colts and stallions are different, they have amplified agression and an instinct that is definitely predatory. They are the herd protector so they have more strength and are quick to anger. If they see another horse as a threat they will attack - their aim is really just to chase the other horse away but in a closed paddock that wont happen, so they usually chase them to death. Stallions have a few fighting techniques that will kill a gelding, chasing is the most common, but also striking in the head with front hooves, aiming kicks at internal organs, (I once had a gelding piss blood after being kicked in the kidneys) and big finale, grabbing the other horse by the neck, picking it up and shaking it until the neck breaks.
Its an instinct that doesnt get looked after in a domestic stallion, so when they get the chance to feed it, they go a bit mental.