I say they feed HIM to the gator.

[Arrian]

The kid is a nasty little ****er, and I think some form of punishment is in order. Not jail time, though.

-Arrian

[Blisterz]

I am sorry but if someone did that to my dog and I knew I would not go to jail for it, I would feed the damn boy to the croc.

My family is the most important thing to me in the world, and (I know someone thinks this is "perverted") my dog is as much part of my family as my sister or Dad.

Maybe my dog is not a blood relative, but I am adopted, and I don't consider that makes my sister or dad any less of a sister or father.

What I see as sick however is that some people get so upset about a family pet, yet they don't give a rat's ass about farm or work animals.

[Arrian]

If this had been an adult, I could see harsher punisment, btw. 14 year olds can be extremely stupid, and extremely cruel. Age is a factor.

-Arrian

[Sava]

They should feed this f*cker to the gator...

[Japher]

Have him spend a week with a PETA representative. He'd probably feed himself to the gator...

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
If it had been any of my pets, they would have had to pry me from his corpse.

Luckily, down south there's lots of empty places where bodies wouldn't be found.

Arrian - Age, schmage. The little **** knew what he was doing. He should pay. He's just lucky it's the law he's paying.

[Winston]

If he'd been smart he would have claimed his actions were a form of artistic expression.

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


Luckily, down south there's lots of empty places where bodies wouldn't be found.

Arrian - Age, schmage. The little **** knew what he was doing. He should pay. He's just lucky it's the law he's paying.

Yet another example of the strong bond between pets and owners, looks at how MtG reacts to the possible idea of one of his pets suffering a similar fate.

Like it or not, people form very strong attachments to their pets, to do so is normal. When you kill their pet, it represents a devestating loss to the owner. The extent of the cruelty by the boy toward the pets owner is inexcusable and must be severely punished; he should go to prison.

[Dinner]

I can't believe southern newspapers publish people's home addresses in articles. These seems like such a liability to me; all it's going to take is for one person to get beat up or have his house torched and then the paper is going to get its pants sued off. Especially, since he allegedly feed the cat to the gator until he's found guilty by the court. Even if you admite to it until convicted it is not being guilty.

[Arrian]

Arrian - Age, schmage. The little **** knew what he was doing. He should pay. He's just lucky it's the law he's paying.

MtG, I understand your PoV, and I agree he should "pay." I think we might differ on exactly what payment is acceptable, though.

Hey, I love aminals too. If anybody hurt my family dog (ok, ok, so it's my parents dog, but as far as I'm concerned, she's mine too, by extension), I would probably be screaming for blood.

Dan, the "attachments to animals is unhealthy" thing, even though it was a troll, is still stupid. My family's dogs have always been part of the family, and by and large treated as such. The current one clearly believes she is (she is spoiled beyond belief. My parents absolutely dote on her. And I think that's great).

-Arrian

[Dinner]

Why is feeding a cat to a gator any worse then feeding a live chicken to a gator? I mean really both die the same way but one is cute and furry so everyone gets in an uproar.

[Japher]

Still, it wasn't his cat... so he should at least get theft. Yet, cats are generally free...?

I wonder what the depreciation on a cat would be?

[Arrian]

The kid was clearly getting pleasure out of torturing the cat as well, Oerdin. He beat it, and THEN fed it to the gator. Add in that the cat is someone's pet, and chickens generally arent, and it IS different.

-Arrian

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oerdin has a point though, Arrian.

Substitute 'cat' for 'rooster' (they can sometimes be kept as pets), or better yet 'lizard', and you'd NEVER see this uproar. It is only for the cute animals do people go nuts over.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Arrian
The kid was clearly getting pleasure out of torturing the cat as well, Oerdin. He beat it, and THEN fed it to the gator. Add in that the cat is someone's pet, and chickens generally arent, and it IS different.

-Arrian

I can give you that. He was clearly abusing the animal just for the sack of amusing himself so he should be beat up, but, legally why is it cruel to toss a cat in the pit but throwing a chicken is ok? Either both should be wrong or niether.