[frogjerk]

I believe humans are so much more important than animals it really doesn't need to be stated, but that being said, had my son or daughter did this, there would have been hell to pay.

Animal abuse charges, I don't really think so. Mental evaluation of the person that did this prank is more appropriate.

[Squawk 8888]

I would hesitate about mental evaluation. I think a parent, teacher, minister, rabbi or priest would be far better equipped to respond than a shrink could ever dream of being. I speak from bitter experience on this (not on animal cruelty, just on other stupid kid things I did that got “medicalized”). You are 100% correct in your instinct that the criminal justice system is the wrong way to handle this.

[ichabod1]

we probably would have done that when we were kids like tying firecrackers to a cats tail man that wuz fun