Posted

Oct 12th 2007

Mood

Angry

So a few days ago a company by the name of Animal Control Solutions, contracted by the city of Barcelonetas here in Puerto Rico, started picking up pet cats and dogs from people living in complex building apartments.

The residents of the apartments received a letter, that showed a day when their pets would be picked.

They were threatened to be kicked out of their houses if they did not give up their dogs and cats because the government decided to stop allowing pets.

Instead, the company just went in a random day with big white vans, and went into the residents houses and started picking up their pets with no permission. They just took them forcefully and threw them into the vans. Some went into backyards and took them away, with police officers and Civil Defense officers, as if they were attacking criminals.

They took cats, dogs, everything they could get. They took the pets away heartlessly from the hands of kids.

The residents, scared of losing their homes, let their cats and dogs go. The company said they would take the dogs and cats to shelters. Oh sure they did!

The goddamned company picked up around 80 dogs and cats.


You know what they did?


They stopped in a highway bridge that has a drop of more than 50 feet.

Then they took out the dogs and cats, and fucking threw them from the top of the bridge.

The animals fell more than fifty feet to their deaths.

They threw more than 70, some alive, some dead already.


A man that lived near the bridge saw how they threw the struggling cats and dogs against the bridge walls to make them stop moving.

The kid with the man saw how they hit the poor animals until they bled and then threw them.

“Some of the animals managed to climb to the highway even though they were all battered, but about 50 animals remained there, dead.” the man said.

The ones that didn't struggle were drugged; they told the people they would to calm them down to take them to the shelter.

But the fucking plan was to to get them weak enough so they didn't bother them in the way to throw them down the bridge.

Somehow, a few survived, and were rescued:



The dozens of unlucky ones now are just a bunch of dead dismembered carcasses inbetween a river and trees.

They did not deserve that.

If this is what they do to dogs with owners, I don't want to see what they do to strays.

One of the pet owners saw how the people from that company picked up her dog, and because he was struggling, they threw the poor dog against the floor, and it started to bleed from his ears and mouth.



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""Elvia Tirado Polanco says she reluctantly handed over her black- and white-spotted mutt to animal control workers after they threatened that she would be evicted from her housing project for keeping a pet there.

The workers promised to take the small dog named "Lucero" - or "Star" - to a shelter. Days later, however, Tirado was horrified to learn that dozens of pets seized this week in Barceloneta on Puerto Rico's north coast were instead thrown to their deaths from a bridge.

"It was barbaric," said Tirado, 56, who wept Saturday as she described caring for the seven-year-old dog. "This has been a really hard blow for all of us."

Elvia Tirado said she had cared for her dog Lucero for seven years as if the dog were her child, feeding her from the plastic table in her cramped living room and letting her sleep beside her at night.

During the raids, she said workers surrounded the housing complex and prevented anyone from leaving with pets. But she said she wishes she had never let Lucero go.

"I have been crying so much I can barely sleep," she said.""


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""A local resident, Jose Manuel Rivera, used a backhoe to bury the bodies of about 50 animals Saturday in a mass grave near the bridge where they were dumped.

He discovered the animals around dawn Tuesday after hearing barking and whimpers from animals who survived the 50-foot fall. He recovered six injured dogs, who were reunited with their owners after they saw their pets on a television news broadcast.

"One had a broken spine, and about all of them had broken legs," Rivera said.""





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Also, it is awful how here more than 500 healthy dogs and cats are put to sleep or killed everyday.

How can people do this?

How the hell did humans get this sick and heartless?

What the fuck is wrong with people?

Oh how I wish I could throw those pieces of shit from that same bridge. Although, that is not enough, they deserve more pain.

They deserve to be tortured, slowly.

You can see the report - HERE -



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Here there are some quotes I found that are really meaningful about all this... I wish all humans really followed and/or used some of these as a base to rethink and change their morals and ethics, changing the way they see all the creatures around us:



"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming ALL other living beings, we are still savages."
~Thomas A. Edison


"Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives."
~Albert Schweitzer


"The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history."
~Edward Augustus Freeman


"Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power."
~Cardinal John Henry Newman


"Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilization until man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own."
~Dr. David Starr Jordan


"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
~Woodrow Wilson


"A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog."
~Charles Doran


"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." ~Josh Billings


"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
~Unknown


"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.... I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."
~Mahatma Gandhi


"Murderers ... very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids."
~Robert K. Ressler, FBI Serial Killer Profiler


"We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and we have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
~William Ralph Inge, British Author


"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
~Pythagoras


"I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground." (Reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.)
~Abraham Lincoln


"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty."
~James Herriot


"As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness."
~Richard Gere

"The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow."
~Dr. Diane Fossey

"Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he's the one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."
~Mark Twain, American Novelist

"It is as if life had said, 'I am going to send you into a world of cruelty. I shall make you sensitive to pain, fear, heat, cold, hunger and starvation. In this world of cruelty, I shall make you defenseless. In addition, I shall strike you dumb.' This is the kind of world that animals are born into."
~Grace Johnson