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После того, как собака-убийца напала на четырёхлетнего ребенка, её хозяин спонтанно поумнел в десять раз и застрелил её из охотничьего ружья. Читать, что было дальше.

"Horse slaughter is a predatory, inhumane business, and we are pleased to win another round in the courts to block killing of these animals on American soil for export to Italy and Japan," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States. "Meanwhile, we are redoubling our efforts in Congress to secure a permanent ban on the slaughter of our horses throughout North America." Особенно обожаю слово "our". Только настоящий демократ так может сказать.

ПЕТА (известная организация диких сумасшедших) собирается подать в суд на авторов каментов к интернетной статье про ПЕТУ за то, что те уподобили ее покойному д-ру Геворкяну (известному святому человеку). Яху ньюз рассудительно комментирует ситуацию в том духе, что, мол, глупо судиться с анонимными авторами каментов.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The animal-rights group PETA is offering to help the cash-strapped city of Colorado Springs by paying to put trash cans back in parks -- on one condition. The cans have to carry an anti-meat slogan and a picture of a woman in a lettuce bikini.

MSNBC -- Западная цивилизация: один гражданин, страдающий психиатрическими заболеваниями, разозлился и убил щенка. Тогда его родная мать разозлилась и сдала его в милицию. Jenkins is currently being held on $50,000 bail in DuPage County jail, where he has been since his Sept. 17 arrest.

Для tandem_bike: зато она не ходит в платке!

Chicago Sun-Times -- Muslim jailed in lamb's slaughter: "I had to kill it before it died. If it dies you can't eat it. I'd have to just throw it away," Alawi said.

That's at least $100 worth of meat Alawi didn't want to lose. So he took out a sharp knife, slit the animal's throat and got ready to take the animals to the butcher shop.

That's when dozens of police cars showed up. "It was crazy," he said. "Like I killed someone." Alawi spent the next eight hours in a police lockup. Alawi said he asked to be released from his handcuffs.

The officer who arrested him refused. She asked Alawi what it feels like to be "tied up like a lamb," Alawi said.

"I said, 'I am not a lamb . . . I am a man, you know,' " Alawi said. "I tied up lamb, otherwise they move in car . . . they can get away."

A police spokesman declined to comment.

Обама прихлопнул во время интервью муху. Комментарий ПЕТА:
"In a nutshell, our position is this: He isn't the Buddha, he's a human being, and human beings have a long way to go before they think before they act."
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/06/obama_and_the_f.php

Разумные приговоры иногда выносятся по случайному стечению обстоятельств. Пример: один мужик повредил собаке своей подруги глаз. Его приговорили к 10 дням тюрьмы и возмещению ветеринарных счетов -- но не за реальное преступление "вандализм", а за выдуманное "жестокое обращение с животными".

Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse




Совершенно фундаментальный труд. Вот, например, интересно -- я не понимал, что у CPS и PETA один предок:

This then was the tenor of the times when the Mary Ellen case arose in 1874. The intense attention it got in the press led to creation of the first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Childern, in New York City.
   Such societies were quickly established all over the United States. By 1906 there were 240 SPCCs or Humane Societies—which concerned themselves with cruelty to both children and animals—nationwide. Often, they were known to their victims simply and appopriately as "the Cruelty".
   The groups were given the same sort of broad powers to investigate families and seek the removal of their children as is given to Child Protective Services today—with remarkably similar results:
—When the broad power they had wasn't enough, they bent or broke the law. Gordon writes that when agents of the Massachussetts SPCC couldn't get into a home legally, "they climbed windows. They searched without warrants. Their case notes frequently revealed that they made their judgements first and looked for evidence later... As one annual report put it delicately: It is true that we have taken risks on the margin of legal liability which seemed needful to rescue the child...but without cost to sciety...If `indiscreet zeal' which is made such a bugbear occasionally leads us into mistakes, the public will condone the error ... much more readily than they would approve the opposite fault of timidity or lukewarmness in cases of well-ascertained cruelty." In other words, they were "erring on the side of the child".

Ну, еще одна капля в море.

Woodstock, IL -- Один мужик, сидя у себя дома, застрелил свою собаку из своего пистолета. Woodstock police officers and members of the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office entered the house and took Locher into custody without incident. Обвинение: неосторожное обращение с оружием. If convicted, Locher could be sentenced to between one and three years in prison.

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES -- The foie gras ban was approved by the City Council in April 2006 by a vote of 48-to-1, after animal-rights activists made their cruelty case during a series of hearings before the council’s Health Committee. It was repealed today in a 37-to-6 vote, with no debate. Всего два годика.

Известная организация PETA учредила премию в один миллион долларов за разработку коммерчески оправданного способа выращивать мясо на основе клеточных технологий (по-видимому, минуя стадию живого животного).



По признанию основательницы (фото), это решение чуть было не привело к "гражданской войне" среди членов организации. Спрашивается, почему? Некоторых всё-таки стошнило? Да! Но не в связи с тем, что вы подумали: so many PETA members are repulsed by the thought of eating animal tissue, even if no animals are killed.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE - Harvey police arrested a 36-year-old woman Wednesday after they said she tried to chop off her Rottweiler's tail with a meat cleaver, Chicago Ridge Animal Welfare League spokesman Terry Sparks said.

Жалко, лапы и голову не отрубила. Ротвейлер - одна из моих любимых собак, сразу после питбуля и бультерьера.

The dog, which appeared to be about 1 1/2 years old, was to have its tail amputated at the Welfare League, Sparks said. Вот она, монополия.

ROCHELLE, Ill. - Authorities seized more than 230 dogs, cats and birds over the weekend from a rural home in northern Illinois after the owner was charged with animal cruelty.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- Warwak, of Williams Bay, Wis., near Lake Geneva, said he is scheduled to meet with Fox River Grove District 3 officials Monday about the discussions he's had in class about vegetarianism, which excludes meats, and veganism, which excludes meats and other animal products such as milk. Officials asked him to leave the school Tuesday because he refused to stop talking about the harms humans cause animals, he said.

Neither the American Civil Liberties Union nor the Illinois Education Association had an opinion on the case, but Warwak drew support from animal rights advocates.

Хорошая новость: негры выразили решительную поддержку известному футболисту Майклу Вику, подвергающемуся преследованиям за таинственное преступление, заключающееся в организации собачьих боёв.



Плохая новость: белые массовой поддержки не выразили.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -- Rex IV, a highly trained Belgian Malinois sheepdog with a string of drug hauls behind him, was checked on to a flight from Mexico City this week with seven other police dogs bound for an operation in the northern state of Sinaloa.

But when the dogs arrived at Mazatlan airport, Sinaloa, their police handlers discovered a small black mongrel puppy inside Rex IV's cage, with the sniffer dog nowhere to be seen.

Однако за время пути собака могла уменьшиться.

Надеюсь, она уже поучаствовала в собачьих боях, в тестировании косметики, в корейской кулинарии, в китайской скорнячной промышленности и в советских исследованиях космического пространства.

WASHINGTON POST -- "For us, the Vick case has had tremendous value," said Jeff Dorson, a Louisiana Humane Society official. "We've been trying to tell the public how typical this is, how widespread it is, the horrors the animals go through. . . . It's opened the curtain so everyone can see what's going on." Спасибо, чудило, теперь будем иметь в виду, что собачие бои освящены древней традицией.

Ну, у нас прямо как в Мериленде: BEACH PARK, Ill. - Ten of 16 pit bulls seized from an alleged dogfighting operation in Beach Park in May were euthanized last week, according to Lake County health officials. Meanwhile, warrant officers from the Lake County Sheriff's Office have located and arrested the chief suspect in the dogfighting case.

Между прочим, involuntary euthanasia is conducted against someone’s will and equates to murder. This practice is almost always considered wrong and is rarely debated.

IPSWICH, Mass. -- Selectmen in Ipswich have ordered two pit bulls put down after the dogs attacked and killed a family pet. А вы как думали? Если у животных есть права, то есть и ответственность за свои поступки! The owner of the pit bulls, Michael Stelline, said he plans to appeal the decision by the selectmen to have the dogs put to death. Я думаю, их помилует губернатор.

BALTIMORE - Reese [vice president of Recycled Love, an animal rescue organization in Baltimore] said pit bull fights are widespread, and she worries not only about the dogs but the impact the fights have on children who often witness them.

"They are shown that illegal gambling, dogfighting and the cruelty associated with it is fine," she said.

But even though bets are placed, the blood sport is often done purely for entertainment, spectators said. People watching the fights often bring guns, drugs and alcohol to the events. Какой ужас. Какой ужас.

Watching a staged dogfight is illegal in Maryland.

Animal control officials said they have just 15 officers. Experts said that more than twice that number is needed to get a handle on the problem in the city. Тоже интересная работа - вычислять необходимое количество. Кажется, я вижу алгоритм. Надо в два раза больше, чем есть.

"It happens everywhere," Brandon Sears, a southwest Baltimore resident, said.

Бесценное: In January 2001, City Councilwoman Agnes Welch unsuccessfully proposed a bill to ban pit bulls, but animal rights activists said they don't want that to happen. They said they would rather see increased enforcement.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Jose A. Zelaya, of the 600 block of Notabene Drive,threw his son's 4-year-old pet dog, Gucci, against a wall, killing the dog.

Это он зря сделал, я считаю. Надо стараться держать себя в руках.

Итак, список обвинений: Zelaya has been charged with

domestic assault and battery;

felony animal cruelty;

felony destruction of property;

contributing to the delinquency of a minor for killing the pet in his son's presence.

Собака из другого штата была, нет? Interstate commerce забыли.

OMAHA -- Bob Baker has seen the worst of the worst in his 27 years as an animal cruelty investigator.

Пример: There was the South Dakota breeder who amputated the leg of a pregnant Rottweiler, injured in an attack by another dog, in hopes that the Rottweiler would survive long enough to give birth to another litter.

А как поступили бы вы?

О! Логика. Один мужик купил в зоомагазине живых мышей для кормления змеи. Но змею он ими кормить не стал, а вместо этого самолично поотрывал им головы (это какая же силища нужна!), и разбросал по всей школе. Результат: Frost was charged with one count of animal cruelty and one count of criminal defacement of property.

Chicago Tribune -- Lake County sheriff's officers have broken up a dogfighting operation in Beach Park, authorities said Tuesday.

Many of the dogs appeared to have been injured in dogfights and had scars. He believes the basement was used by spectators to watch and bet on dogfights. An arena was set up with seating for 12 to 15 people, and there was blood on the walls.

"This was a major dogfighting circle," Jonites said. He said there was evidence of transactions and dogs may have been brought in from other areas to fight. "It's obvious money was placed on the dogfights."

"It doesn't appear the house was being lived in. It appears it was being rented for dogfighting."

А вот защита прав животных: The dogs probably will be euthanized because of their injuries and aggressiveness, Jonites said. He doesn't believe they are adoptable.