These stories that I have found were very heartbreaking to me! I cannot belaeve that these people are this cruel to animals. What I am about to write about is very dear to me. I was searching though my articles online when one stood out at me; pets thrown off a 50ft bridge into a gorge. What was said in these to articles (Links to articles at the bottem of this post) was that animal control workers took pets and stray cats and dogs and hurled them from atop a bridge to there cruel and painful deaths. That is what authorites and witnesses said. These animal control workers were suposaly to take these 50-80 cats and dogs to an animal shelter, but did otherwise. Mayor Sol Luis Fontanez blamed a contractor hired to take the poor animals to a shelter. He said, “This is an irresponsible, inhuman, and shameful act.” I do not believe him when he says it is not his fault. These animals were mostly abtainted from families that had pets that were not alowed to have them. These raids happened the 8th and 10th of October, 2007. As the animal control workers were taking the animals away they were injecting them with something, poeple asked what it was and the replied it was a sedative for the drive to the shelter. However, I do not believe that at all! One Person remarked, “They came as if it was a drug bust. They took away cats, dogs, and whatever other animal they could find. Some were even taken in front of children.” That is just so mean! However, instead of taking them to the shelter they went to a near by bridge before dawn Tuesday the 9th, October, 2007. People that lived next to the bridge said most of them were already dead when they started throwing them to their inhumane graves. About half a dozen unlucky ones that did not die instantly climbed out of the gorge all battered, so they had to suffer even more before they died. And the ones that died lying in the gorge had lime spread over them to cover the smell. A lawsuit has been filed against Animal Control Solutions and city officials including the ones that did the terrible deeds, for 22.5 millon dollors. “The animals’ deaths show a cold and depraved heart and has stirred public outrage around the whole world,” the lawsuit said. No one has been sent to jail yet, but I hope they do. This was a terrible act that I hope will never happen again.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/12/national/main3363614.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_3363614
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3865114
Matt said,
February 29, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
Animals, in general, are cute, fuzzy, adorable, mostly lovable, sometimes defenseless, and now thrown off of bridges in foreign countries. What is wrong with people these days. Animals shouldn’t be tortured like this. Not only is this inhuman, and hopefully illegal!, but it is cruel for mostly all involved. I have a dog, whom my whole family loves, if this were to happen to my family, I’d throw the dude off the bridge, and see how he likes it!! Why didn’t the families stop that guy from taking their animals in the first place!?
hunterjumpers724 said,
March 24, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
People are so sick now-a-days. Like truly, its remarkable to see what kinds of things that people will do to their animals. I don’t know if they think it’s a joke, or funny but i wish i could hurl one of those people off of that bridge. I know some kids that lived by my friend that would do that to stray cats they would stick firecrackers on them, and then they would just laugh. It seriously makes me want to cry every time you hear about these stories, because i feel so bad since the animals are so defenseless. They can’t do anything for themselves really. People are so horrible.