Massacre of innocent pets

[Heba E. Husseyn]

Cruel and merciless .. those responsible for doing this are cold blooded murderers and should be given the death sentence!


Pet massacres carried out in Puerto Rico

By YAISHA VARGAS and ANDREW O. SELSKY

Yahoo News - Nov.14, 2007
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TRUJILLO ALTO, Puerto Rico - Back roads, gorges and garbage dumps on this tropical island are littered with the decaying carcasses of dogs and cats. An Associated Press investigation reveals why: possibly thousands of unwanted animals have been tossed off bridges, buried alive and otherwise inhumanely disposed of by taxpayer-financed animal control programs.

Witnesses who spoke with the AP said that, despite pledges to deliver adoptable strays to shelters and humanely euthanize the rest, the island's leading private animal control companies generally did neither.

News that live animals had been thrown to their deaths from a bridge reached the public last month when Animal Control Solutions, a government contractor, was accused of inhumanely killing some 80 dogs and cats seized from three housing projects in the town of Barceloneta. A half dozen survived the fall of at least 50 feet.

The AP probe, which included visits to two sites where animals were slaughtered, found the inhumane killings were far more extensive than that one incident. The AP saw and was told about a scale and brutality far beyond even what animal welfare activists suspected, stretching over the last eight years.

A $22.5 million lawsuit against Animal Control Solutions and city officials — including those who helped round up the animals — was filed on behalf of 16 Barceloneta families whose dogs or cats were seized under rules prohibiting pets at the city projects. The animals' deaths show "a cold and depraved heart and has stirred public outrage around the whole world," the lawsuit says.

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[Zainab_M]

Cruel and merciless .. those responsible for doing this are cold blooded murderers and should be given the death sentence!

I couldn't agree more sister.  These people are brutal murderers and they deserve the death penalty .. no question about that. 

This story is absolutely heartbreaking, to say the least!

[Ruhi_Rose]

Disgraceful and heartbreaking!!!!  Cruelty is common in many societies, but most of all in Latin America, China and Eastern Europe.