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MissMorrigan -> RE: Marines and a puppy (3/8/2008 10:36:00 PM)
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It's 06.20 here presently and I've only just been able to get back to check this thread. He's sitting next to me by the side of the keyboard and he's received his under the chin/side of the head scritches from his Aunty Greedy lol
I understand what you're saying, Greedy re. the pup/circumstances and that's just it, we don't really know what happened. We see a grinning idiot tossing a little pup off a cliff face - for it to be a cliff means the drop has to be steep and it's very unlikely something that small would survive such a fall, but these are all assumptions. I'm just trying to think logically about the effect of the fall itself, not the actions of the prick that did it in the first place, as they speak for themselves, and hopefully the military will act swiftly in dealing with the miscreant. If it were a larger dog then the chances of it surviving increase, but again that depends on the drop and the reports indicate this was a cliff. Even if the pup hit rocks below, that would only increase its chances of mortality. It's likely its end was quicker than it would have been had the soldier wanted to have a little fun with it using his knife. It's a shame the pup had to die at all, I still think it received the best option insofar as 'methods' but then, I look at just how many people pay into Spain's tourism knowing that every single day bulls are pushed into a ring for spectactors' enjoyment, as a metal helmet is fastened onto its horns and set alight, the heat slowly burning through the horns and driving the animal demented with pain as it thrashes around. Yet people know it goes on, they continue supporting Spain and its barbaric mistreatment of its animals all in the name of 'good sport' and 'festivals'. I'm just saying there are many wrongs in our societies, Greedy, what happened to the pup was abhorrent, but in the grand scheme of things, it had a quicker end than many other creatures.
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop
awww, Miss M.. you rpoor furbaby..give him scritches for me!
As far as the cliff thing though.. since (AFAIK) there are no videos showing the actual drop from the cliff, we have no way of knowing if the pup hit the bottom at a great height and died.. if it hit the bottom and wandered off (slightly dazed, but ok), or if it hit the bottom, and was critically wounded and left to die in a most painful and heinous manner...
a knife to the throat, or a snapped neck would have assured it of a quick death. NOT that I condone doing that to any living creature, but it certainly would have been more humane than tossing it off a cliff and walking away without knowing what the end result was. Just my .05.
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