[HairOfTheDog]

True enough, he may have hurt the dog and we don't know. But the fact that he thumped the dog pretty hard doesn't necessarily mean the dog was injured either.

I am an animal lover. You aren't gonna find a bigger animal lover than me. But I also know that I have had dogs that were not easy to control, and lack of control is more dangerous to the dog than firm punishment. Giving them a pretty good thumping is not the best way, as we have said, but this man's intentions were not necessarily evil. It just looks ugly to a witness.

[Gargantua]

There is a monstrous chasm of difference between giving a dog a needed disciplinary correction and actually, cruelly beating a dog.

There is NO SITUATION where the animal is "better off" for having been savagely beaten, and that is a point which can be proven quite easily, though it is extremely painful for the student when thoroughly demonstrated.

;-/