Posted on 07/31/2005 9:27:19 AM PDT by Abathar
JOURDANTON, Texas -- Some city officials in Jourdanton, Texas, are outraged that a public works supervisor ordered employees to drown six stray dogs at the city sewer plant, rather than having the animals properly euthanized.
For punishment, the supervisor was ordered to attend classes with animal control officers.
City councilman Darrell Richter said the workers took the dogs from the pound to the sewer plant and dropped their cages into the water.
A child saw the drownings and told his mother, who complained.
Richter told the San Antonio Express-News that he's disgusted by the incident and upset with the supervisor getting "a little slap on the hand." He said a crime has been committed and should be dealt with in a more serious manner.
This makes me want to go hug my Siberian Husky that my wife recused from an Animal Shelter when I was in Iraq.....
Sick, cruel, inhumane, violent, moronic ,cowardly, slime should be fired along with the robots who obeyed his command
Perhaps you might consider verifying the numbers which the nice PETAPerson gave you.
The correlation argument abotu animal abuse/child abuse and animal abuse/crime is most questionable. Pseudo-logic is a favorite tool of the agenda driven.
For example, 75% of heroin addicts are claimed to have a grass smoking history. Thus the agenda driven claim that smoking grass leads to heroin addiction.
True, but nearly 100% have a milk history.
Beware the casual correlation.
This is animal cruelty.
They actually went to the pound, got some dogs, then took them and drowned them. How sadistic is that?!
"workers took the dogs from the pound to the sewer plant and dropped their cages into the water. "
It would be bad enough if they found a stray dog, and drowned it, instead of taking it to the pound, but to actually go to the trouble to go to the pound to get dogs, so then they can drown them shows the depravity of these people.
And why were the workers going along with this?!
Oh really? He should have been fired and prosecuted for animal cruelty.
I guess I don't see what he did wrong. He wasn't torturing them he just killed them.
Our society is so darn "sanitized" these days that a kid seeing a dog get killed is deemed scandalous.
No wonder the pacifist lefties are winning.
Just give me 5 minutes alone with that piece of crap....I'll teach him a lesson he'll never forget.
I can not believe that this is not considered animal cruelty under either local or state law. This cretin should be fired and should have to pay restitution of some sort. The slap on the wrist is an insult to decent people everywhere.
Our society is so darn "sanitized" these days that a kid seeing a dog get killed is deemed scandalous.
No wonder the pacifist lefties are winning.
Yes I am disgusted by the comments on this thread. Sure lets waste money so that they are "properly euthanized" according to the liberals instead of getting rid of them in a much more efficient manner. Furthurmore lets clog up the courts even more so that we can prosecuted these people and ignore real criminals.
Government shouldn't even be sticking its nose into the regulation of "animal cruelty". It is yet another blow to the ideal of limited government.
Death by Drowning is Torture.
It is one of the slowest cruelest deaths. It is not quick, it is by no means painless and it is not what humane people do. If you have ever had a hard time catching your breath or held your breath until your lungs felt as though they would burst, imagine that but without any relief available.
This is not about killing. Dogs are euthanized every day. This is about wanton, sick cruelty.
I cannot believe how cruel this guy was, or how spineless the workers were to follow his orders. Maybe if the city isn't upset by his disgusting cruelty, they will be upset about the loss of the six cages? After all, those cost money.
There really are some sick people in this world.
What kind of a psycho would dream up this idea? The SOB should be fired.
I don't think "limited government" should require turning a blind eye to instances of cruelty.
Why don't they release this guys name?
That guy is not only sick; he should lose his job and go to prison for what he did.
The world has changed - at least in the U.S. Perhaps this guy is just a hold out from the way things used to be.
That's what I was wondering.
Can you do it to a rat you catch in your house? I have one sitting here at my desk. The trap did not kill it, just pinned him in. I'm searching for applicable law - the animal control does not seem to work on Sunday.
Cute little thing except for the tail and the fact he chewed through the water pipe that feeds the ice maker on my fridge.
Maybe we should put it to a vote. Do I drown him, feed him some rat poison or let him stay in the trap until Monday when animal control can come get him to properly euthanasia him.
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