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Ok_Store_1983 t1_izlwnf6 wrote

This is just fucking sad. Imagine your dog all excited to go somewhere in the car with their buddy, only to get dumped out and ran over by the person they trust amd love the most. I wish there were harsher punishments for this shit. If you can do that to an animal you are supposed to love and protect and care for, i'm convinced you aren't too far off from being capable of doing this to your child.

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zuuzuu t1_izm4dq2 wrote

When I was in 7th grade, a dog followed me home from school. He was malnourished and just in rough shape, but sweet and goofy and just so loveable. My parents said I had to try to find his owners, so I did. Someone recognized him and told me his people didn't want him, so they took him to the park and drove away. That broke my heart. My parents, too.

We spent the next 18 years making sure he knew he was wanted and loved and the Best Dog Ever. 24 years later, I still have a huge picture of him on the wall, and miss him every day.

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enokidake t1_izmaswu wrote

Thankfully, animal abuse was recently added as a federal crime.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782842651/trump-signs-law-making-cruelty-to-animals-a-federal-crime

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techleopard t1_izmfbjl wrote

Just certain types of abuse, sadly. Lots of boxes to check before charges can be brought.

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Starlightriddlex t1_izmvn8w wrote

Honestly, I bet it was his kids or partners dog. Perpetrators of domestic abuse often take it out on the pets and use the threat of something happening to the pet to control their victims.

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HolyMolyitsMichael t1_izoge6v wrote

There is a pretty harrowing video of a dad doing just that to his daughters dog. He is yelling at the girl pretty bad, dog obviously gets upset starts barking, dad hits dog, scares girl more she screams, dog goes into fucked around now you gonna find out mode lunges at the dad, dad threaten girl that he is going to kill her dog, she begs him not to. That dog was more of a caring parent than that dad probably ever was.

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Starlightriddlex t1_izowvs1 wrote

Yep, I speak from experience. My own father used to dangle my little dog over the balcony and threaten to throw her off when he would argue with my mother.

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techleopard t1_izmf81y wrote

This is honestly just the tip of the iceberg. This person was dumb enough to do it anywhere there would be cameras, but so much worse goes on in the woods or behind homes away from the road.

There is an entire population of people who just don't see animals as anything more than meat objects -- no more feeling than a remote-controlled robot dinosaur.

It's infuriating that when this stuff is discovered, it barely gets a slap on the wrist. It NEEDS to be treated like the symptom of sociopathy that it is.

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twobitcopper t1_izoskff wrote

As my granny would say, there is a special place in hell for people like this. She is so right!

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PlayHumankind t1_izq8vis wrote

This makes me cry so much, I can't imagine anything happening to my dog and reading this comment made me cry, it's sick what this person did, I am holding my dog right now

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