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

[areias]

I just posted the two I found horrible. At the boarding kennel, you see a lot of different things. There was an elderly greyhound someone brought in...we had them turn right around and take it to the vet, it's tail was bleeding horribly, from the base. They had only told us to rebandage it once, after taking it to the vet, but when there was a stench in the kennel we decided to do it again...it was absolutely horrible looking, and the vet had used a sticky bandage right over the wound.

Other dogs that come in, they will be completely happy go lucky. The next time they come in it's like they are a completely different dog, cowering and sulking, and wanting nothing to do with you. You can tell they've been kicked around quite a bit.

There was a farm I called animal services on. I was looking for boarding, called this farm up, the guy said to come out and feel free to look around even if he wasn't there. Well, he wasn't, so I walked into the barn. The first stall, was boarded up and there was a padlock on it with a sign that said Do Not Open. There was a horse in there. All of the stalls were complete slop, wet and loaded with feces. The horses didn't look too terrible, until I got down to the end and there was one that was just skin and bones. They had another row of stalls on the other end...there was one horse that just looked a little off. I clicked at him and said "hey baby" and he turned to walk towards me, and almost fell. His leg was swollen up about 4-5 times what it should be, it looked like an elephant leg. It looked exactly like one of the horses on an old episode of animal cops. Not to mention he was also really skinny. I got really sick to my stomach, and decided to leave before the guy got back. I called animal services, but the farm is still in business. I'm not sure if any of the horses were removed, but at least I did the best I could.

[CathyBogart]

I've witnessed a few things working in a pet store that were just horrifying...birds who people had tried to "trim their wings" and had cut into the muscle on the wings, a hamster some little )#&$* of a kid had spun ot death in a ball, someone told me about her dad wringing his parrot's neck because it learned a cuss word and then LAUGHED!

Another bad one was my neighbor's little Keeshond puppy. Riley is a sweet little thing, and he's actually pretty well cared for now (though he's outside when they're not home which I don't like) but one day they left him as a 14 wek old puppy in his crate in the backyeard on a 90 degree day! He was crying and crying and panting and drooling, and after less than an hour he just fell over. I called the ASPCA who came and took him, and the wife actually thanked me later...I guess she hadn't realized her husband had been leaving him outside.