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A severely malnourished pitbull endured months of torture that included having its limbs pulled apart in a medieval-style “drawing,” the vet who performed the dog’s necropsy told the Herald today as authorities plead with the public to help them find the “sadistic” person responsible.

A shaken Dr. Martha Smith-Blackmore of the Animal Rescue League said the fate of the brindle-colored pit cops named “Puppy Doe” before she was euthanized is “unquestionably ... hands down” the worst case of animal abuse she has ever seen.

“She was a rack of beaten bones,” Smith-Blackmore said. “Her joints were pulled apart like Medieval times. She was beaten, stabbed, burned over weeks to months and maybe her whole life. And could not walk. When I saw how vulnerable she was and I understood immediately the duration of her suffering, my heart collapsed.”

Smith-Blackmore said “Puppy Doe,” who was discovered by a passer-by Aug. 31 abandoned in woods near the Whitwell Street playground in Quincy, endured having a wrist, ankle and elbow separated from their joints and a leg bone virtually broken in half from being drawn “over and over and over. It’s a very intimate form of violence.

“I don’t know how they did it, but the force was tremendous,” said Smith-Blackmore, who had to step away from the necropsy “in order to come back to it.”

Mercifully, Smith-Blackmore found no evidence of sexual abuse, which she said is not uncommon in animal abuse cases.

Turdacious wrote:

A severely malnourished pitbull endured months of torture that included having its limbs pulled apart in a medieval-style “drawing,” the vet who performed the dog’s necropsy told the Herald today as authorities plead with the public to help them find the “sadistic” person responsible.

A shaken Dr. Martha Smith-Blackmore of the Animal Rescue League said the fate of the brindle-colored pit cops named “Puppy Doe” before she was euthanized is “unquestionably ... hands down” the worst case of animal abuse she has ever seen.

“She was a rack of beaten bones,” Smith-Blackmore said. “Her joints were pulled apart like Medieval times. She was beaten, stabbed, burned over weeks to months and maybe her whole life. And could not walk. When I saw how vulnerable she was and I understood immediately the duration of her suffering, my heart collapsed.”

Smith-Blackmore said “Puppy Doe,” who was discovered by a passer-by Aug. 31 abandoned in woods near the Whitwell Street playground in Quincy, endured having a wrist, ankle and elbow separated from their joints and a leg bone virtually broken in half from being drawn “over and over and over. It’s a very intimate form of violence.

“I don’t know how they did it, but the force was tremendous,” said Smith-Blackmore, who had to step away from the necropsy “in order to come back to it.”

Mercifully, Smith-Blackmore found no evidence of sexual abuse, which she said is not uncommon in animal abuse cases.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/lo ... le_torture

Terry B. wrote:When you set up your Google alert, do you simply use "dog+abuse" or do you need to combine "torture" and "sexual" in the string as well?

Bud Charniga's gaping asshole wrote:call me a fag, but I'm generally a pretty forgiving person.

Shit that I cannot get it into my head to even conceive forgiving someone for: animal abuse, child abuse, elder abuse. Just terrible. I hope to hell they find whoever did this so he/she can't hurt anything else.

Dr. Agkistrodon wrote:

Bud Charniga's gaping asshole wrote:call me a fag, but I'm generally a pretty forgiving person.

Shit that I cannot get it into my head to even conceive forgiving someone for: animal abuse, child abuse, elder abuse. Just terrible. I hope to hell they find whoever did this so he/she can't hurt anything else.

Not the least bit faggy at all. Fuck grudges, we don't swallow arsenic and then wait for our enemy to die.

On the other hand, the person who would starve, burn, and draw-and-quarter a dog, isn't even a person to be forgiven at all- they're pure evil. It's a terrible thing indeed, and I hope they find the bastard, too.

DARTH wrote: I do not think it's wrong to smack a bad dog upside the head or snout and a light punt to the body (never hard enough to hurt it) is sometimes warranted and a lot of animal people go stupid about that. And I will rub a nose in shit if they do it in the house repeatedly.

DARTH wrote:Um, is that the sound you make before you suck cock?

Terry B. wrote:

DARTH wrote: I do not think it's wrong to smack a bad dog upside the head or snout and a light punt to the body (never hard enough to hurt it) is sometimes warranted and a lot of animal people go stupid about that. And I will rub a nose in shit if they do it in the house repeatedly.

Um, that was the same thing you posted regarding your philosophy for raising kids, other than the dragging (kids) around on the leash part.

Terry B. wrote:Come on, this happened in the United States so people only care enough to type responses online professing their love for animals but not so much as to actually do anything.

Animal protection laws are virtually non-existant in all but few blue states like California and Oregon & Vermont, felony punishments generally don't exist, animal snuff films are protected by the first amendment, police aren't required to enforce laws on the books, anybody can own animals and 95% of the population stuffs their faces with animals tortured before death on regular intervals throughout the day. As long as you aren't transporting animals across state lines to fight them (and make a profit from gambling), the populace doesn't care. The poor dog in the article was rescued, fed, given pain medication then killed a few hours later because nobody really gave a shit about it.

Let's say the people who tortured that dog are caught. Everybody knows they will get a less severe penalty than if they were caught with a few ounces of pot and on par with somebody who has a stack of unpaid parking tickets.

Terry B. wrote:Come on, this happened in the United States so people only care enough to type responses online professing their love for animals but not so much as to actually do anything.

Animal protection laws are virtually non-existant in all but few blue states like California and Oregon & Vermont, felony punishments generally don't exist, animal snuff films are protected by the first amendment, police aren't required to enforce laws on the books, anybody can own animals and 95% of the population stuffs their faces with animals tortured before death on regular intervals throughout the day. As long as you aren't transporting animals across state lines to fight them (and make a profit from gambling), the populace doesn't care. The poor dog in the article was rescued, fed, given pain medication then killed a few hours later because nobody really gave a shit about it.

Let's say the people who tortured that dog are caught. Everybody knows they will get a less severe penalty than if they were caught with a few ounces of pot and on par with somebody who has a stack of unpaid parking tickets.

Terry B. wrote:

Bud Charniga's gaping asshole wrote:To be fair, Virginia's more purple than red these days (Nova, Richmond and Charlottesville vs. The rest of the state), and Terry's absolutely right that animal cruelty laws could be stronger. Beyond that, Terry, what's your fucking point? Because the us could do better on animal cruelty, we're not allowed to be dismayed at animal cruelty? IIRC you're a Brit. I lived in London for a while. The area I lived in is probably a lot nicer now, but at the time it was a shitpile, decaying council estates filled with asbos and sad housewives, where an outing to the Tesco for crisps and lager counted as a fun outing. This was a deep red borough, during the height of Blair's Labour, but I didn't see any clamoring to nicen up the place. Does that mean that Brits (or anyone else) aren't allowed to say that's a little sad?

Terry B. wrote:

Bud Charniga's gaping asshole wrote:To be fair, Virginia's more purple than red these days (Nova, Richmond and Charlottesville vs. The rest of the state), and Terry's absolutely right that animal cruelty laws could be stronger. Beyond that, Terry, what's your fucking point? Because the us could do better on animal cruelty, we're not allowed to be dismayed at animal cruelty? IIRC you're a Brit. I lived in London for a while. The area I lived in is probably a lot nicer now, but at the time it was a shitpile, decaying council estates filled with asbos and sad housewives, where an outing to the Tesco for crisps and lager counted as a fun outing. This was a deep red borough, during the height of Blair's Labour, but I didn't see any clamoring to nicen up the place. Does that mean that Brits (or anyone else) aren't allowed to say that's a little sad?

49 of 50 jurisdictions have felonies on the books but fighting is the only area that is pretty much on the books across the board is related to fighting, which is really about gambling. A good number of states have cruelty laws but try getting a felony charge for neglect or abandonment or even sexual assault. Recently, after a few cases where feedlot workers were found guilty (or shamed due to) animal abuse, laws were immediately strengthened...to make it illegal to take pictures of feedlots. If people really cared about such issues, strengthening such laws would be a slam dunk...or perhaps not "Hey, JimBud, you wanna make dog rape against the law?"

Never doubt that a large group of opinionated, outraged citizens can change the world by complaining online; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.