If you are reading this, you are probably on Facebook. Most of my blog traffic starts there and of
course that makes sense to me because I have more friends/followers/connections
there than anywhere else. So, since you
probably have a Facebook account, you also probably have a friend or two who
are “animal” people -- you know -- those who post photos of dogs that need
adoption, cats who are lost, and even those horrible photos of animals that
have been tortured and left to die.
In April this year a puppy was set on fire by an 18-year-old
man, Darius Ewing, here in the Dallas area.
Ewing, along with a group of other idiots, reportedly laughed as he
doused the puppy with lighter fluid and flicked his lit cigarette at the
dog. When police arrived, the puppy was
hiding and burns covered 70% of his body.
The puppy – later named Justice (pictured above -- photo courtesy of DFW Rescue Me) – ended up dying from his injuries. The story made national news.
This story sickens me, as do all of the other stories of
pets being tortured and abused. But I
would be willing to bet good money that for every pet that is tortured, there
is an equally disgusting act performed on a child.
And I would also bet that most (if not all) of those
assholes who hurt defenseless animals were once defenseless children being
abused or watching it happen to their mothers and sisters and brothers. And I'd bet that if not stopped the Darius Ewings of the
world will move on to torture women and children.
Yes, it makes me sick to hear about animal cruelty and see
it on Facebook. You should be glad that
CPS doesn’t post what they see.
My #FundraisingFriday gift is going to DFW Rescue Me -- the group that took in Justice.
Exactly. I'd mentioned before - at about the same time Justice was killed, this child was starved to death by his parents, leaving him to eat his own feces out of desperation. A very slow, cruel death - esp. knowing it was his parents, on who he was dependant for care, doing it to him. I didn't see any protests or uprisings over this though. Just for the dog. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/johnathan-ramsey-aaron-elizabeth-ramsey-son-starved-texas_n_1396884.html
ReplyDeleteOh, Jim -- such a tragic story. How could parents do that to a child? I wrote a blog about Johnathan's death too: http://blog.paigemcdaniel.org/2012/04/rip-johnathan-we-let-you-down.html
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