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

[Winglover]

When we took in mika she was more dead than alive. The owner didnt feed her and didn't give her medicine when she got a nasty cold. she had blad spots from the fleas eating her and her tail was almost hairless
I went to the ASPCA and they told me they couldnt do anything. She was 2 years old and her weight was under 2 lbs.she was shaking and afraid I spent all night on the futon with her and she shit all over me in my sleep. Now she is a little porky and the biggest lapcat in the world

[emilysgk]

I used to know a guy...I liked him until I heard his stories. He lived in a trailer park, and of course there were tons of wild cats. An unfortunate, but very common problem in areas like that. Well the owner of the park, used to pay the guy to get rid of the cats. He didnt care how he did it or anything, just to do it. His *favorite* way, I suppose was the best, since it was an immidiate death, but I dont know how someone could do it over and over. He used to laugh while he talked about it! So here goes, he would take the cats, hold them over a trash can by the neck, then hit them really hard right on top of there head. He held them over the can because of the immidiate release of urine and feces. It severed there spinal cords. That is just sick. UGH, how could somone do that, and tell stories and laugh?? And someone paid him to do it? He did other things too, but that seemed to be the most common one. Its just so sick. I havnt thought about this stuff in a long time now. Just brings up anger now that I do think about it. I have stories from a kennel I used to work at, but nothing that compares to that.

[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.