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To: American_Centurion
Used to be a time when you could kill your own dog and eat it if you wanted to. Animals are not human beings and this was the man's own dog - not someone elses. Animals are a person's property to do with as they wish. Harm someone else's animal/property and that is a whole other ballgame.
11 posted on 03/18/2004 6:38:15 AM PST by LivingNet
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To: LivingNet
Animals are a person's property to do with as they wish.

Your ideal maybe, but that isn't what the law says. Abuse, neglect and cruelty should be punishable, and animals should be able to be taken from bad situations. But we need to be more careful in defining cruelty.

16 posted on 03/18/2004 7:00:00 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: LivingNet
Animals are a person's property to do with as they wish.

Nope. Not in Texas. Abuse your own animal, you're a felon.

And, that's as it should be.

18 posted on 03/18/2004 7:03:12 AM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a dog or a cat from an animal shelter! It will save one life, and may save two.)
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To: LivingNet
The line for cruelty has been drawn so close to simple scolding it scares me.

Felony abuse, should be along the lines of long term neglect and torture.

This didn't come close.
20 posted on 03/18/2004 7:06:32 AM PST by American_Centurion (Daisy-cutters trump a wiretap anytime - Nicole Gelinas)
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To: LivingNet
Used to be a time when you could kill your own dog and eat it if you wanted to.

Or another animal. It is interesting how so many people are changing with respect to animals. Something interesting is occurring.

24 posted on 03/18/2004 7:26:04 AM PST by af_vet_1981
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To: LivingNet
Animals are a person's property to do with as they wish.
So if I wanted to skin my dog alive, on my front porch, then hang it there for the whole world to see...that would be just fine with you?
48 posted on 03/18/2004 8:54:24 AM PST by newcats
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