What is the worst case of animal cruelty you have evr witnessed/heard about?

[BC_MoM]

All the friggin kids here who are setting cats and dogs on fire.. there's so many cases of it..... GR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S JUST PLAIN SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Allecto]

Some of the worst I have seen or hear of...

A local man who used to shoot his dog with a bb gun to toughen it up and make it mean. He just let the bb's heal inside the dog.


This past year was a horrible year for blowfly strikes. Several owners allowed their animals to suffer in this way until they died from it. Mainly sheep and poultry, but one family finally brought in a dog that had been battling it for a week, that they KNEW OF. They knew for a week he was infested with the larvae!!! I won't describe any more, but of course we (at the shelter/emergency vets where I was volunteering) quickly put the poor thing down. I have hardly ever been as angry in my life as I was at those people.

But you know what I think some of the worst animal cruelty is that I see over and over and over? Sweet, loving, painfully lonely dogs left tied up and ignored. Taking a social animal like a dog and dooming it to life unloved and alone is, IMHO, about as cruel as it gets.

[Allecto]

All the friggin kids here who are setting cats and dogs on fire.. there's so many cases of it..... GR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S JUST PLAIN SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd see cases like that on the news when I was living in Denver. I agree, truly horrible.