German Shepherd dog

Take the three no matter the age and tie them to a tranquilzed  lion and let it wake up and there on there own...but show it on PBS. 

Abhay,

Every day we see some story about kid's.  I as a parent can only say its sad for the kid's as well as what they do in society.

I don't know who to blame it on except the parent's have the ultimate responcability for their children.

Someone has to be accountable for sure.

Pardon the expression but it's the same old shit on yet another day.

Maybe the dog's will be ok.

Brent.

Wonder how these kids learned that this was ok behavior?  What did their parents or caregivers teach them.  I always thought people who like blood sports that involve animals should be thrown in a jail where they will be forced to fight to live with their bare hands.  You're hungry? Better win this match.  Oh well, Karma is all I can say....

This is Tennessee.  The most these punks will get is a slap on the wrist and some community service and probation.  After their court-appointed attorney handles their case. 

Do you want something better than that?  Put pressure on this judge and others to enforce the maximum penalty on them.

Do you want something better than that?  Enact laws that hold parents accountable for their failure to supervise their punk-ass kid's misbehavior.

Until the activities of breeders and back yard breeders who sell to anyone and everyone is curtailed you won't get any better than that.  Until you take steps to prevent it what are you whining about? 

I've got my own ideas about how that should be handled but I guarantee nobody likes it. .

Bottom line...psychopaths  like these are torturing animals.  There's no parental supervision and for the one's "older than" parental supervision, no conscience..  How long before the thrill is gone for them and they "graduate".  ?

I saw a "petition" about Verison wireless using chained pit bulls in their commercial.  I think it was something about security.

Now everyone's up in arms.  Why?  It's what they're known for lately.  Consider the clientelle they're catering to! 

Damn, at this rate Mack Trucks will have to get rid of their mascott before someone "sues" them.  WTF?

Start holding the breeders and the buyers accountable for negative behavior. 

Hmm....responsibility.  Accountability.  What a foreign concept.

Nope.  Nobody wants to know my solution.  Might cost them a few $$$$$$$$.

Read "Revelations" those saint's were certainly not crazy to write about the damned future on this planet. When you remove the teachings of religion from a society this is what it comes to.

Three ropes, three trees, these three sick punks.

Some assembly required.

Two Moons said "Pharaoh, bad kid's come from all walks of life. All economic background's."

Yes they do, but there is an overwhelming flood coming from the "Thug Culture" of Gangstas and Wangstas. I have lived and worked in the inner city and ghetto neighborhoods. I have dear friends who are still there. Do you have drive by shootings in your neighborhood? When you go to a nice restaurant, do four or five thugs walk in pointing guns at everyone, empty the cash register then empty the wallets and remove all the jewelry and watches from the patrons of the restaurant? When you walk into the Subway for a sandwich, is there bullet proof glass between you and the food server?

This is way past "bad kids".

It isn't about economics, Michael Vick is not poor. It is not about skin color, it's about culture, specifically THUG LIFE culture.

It;s about little girls getting pregnant while they are high on crack/ice/x/meth or whatever, they are all terratogens as is alcohol. The drug use AKA "Partying"continues throughout the pregnancy, causing more and more damage, that can not be repaired.

The type of "ultra violence" and depraved indifference displayed by the three twisted youth who tortured the beautiful innocent 8 month old puppy was an adrenaline rush. I can tell you that was their idea of having fun. In my heart I believe they are brain damaged and being raised by each other on the streets a la "Lord of the Flies". It is bad and it is going to get a lot worse.

I won't close my eyes and make believe. That will not make it go away. If that worked I would be happy to do so.

Go to you tube and search for Oakland Sideshows. It will be a real eye opener for you.

I hope I don't have to run into this on the interstate freeway 880 that I take to go home from Schutzhund training www.youtube.com/watch  or this on 580 www.youtube.com/watch Just in case you think nobody gets hurt there are people who did not volunteer for this "film" they were driving through and !!!!!!  www.youtube.com/watch or how about the house two cars crashed into, hit the gas line and it exploded at 4AM. The family barely escaped with their lives but their hous was leveled as if there had been a tornado  abclocal.go.com/kgo/story . That incident was not too far from my friends house. They are trapped-who would buy their house? It's another world. Lots of dog fighting too.

Michele and Pharaoh

I forgot to mention the the increase in the incidence of cancer in the overcrowded rats.  Though not the same article, the link gives an rough overview of the experiment.

nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2008/07_25_2008/story1.htm

A wise man told me that nothing will change unless we change ourselves.

Margaret N-J

Pharaoh,

Your right, and it is also our culture.  All our children are exposed to it in one way or another.  I just meant it's not limited to one group or background.

Kaffir make's a point as well.

Even Matador is correct, unless we change things drasticaly our world is screwed.

I don't have any real answer's that anyone could live with.

Brent.

Excellent posts Kaffirdog and Nia.

I am older than most of you and I can concur with what Nia writes as this was also my experience even though I lived in an abusive, one parent family.

We also had neighborhood recreation programs all summer long and after school programs that are now practically non-existent. We had people who were giving of themselves and their time to make a difference in a child's life. There are still some places where a "village" exists, but they are few and far between. There are still people out here who will stop and spend time with a kid, but they too are far and few between. And who wants to coach for example, or run a childrens' choir, when one has to deal with assh--- parents who have their heads in the dark about what is important in life.

There are few who expect anything from kids, let alone excellence in their daily lives. Too many parents have few ethics and are out for themselves so no wonder that the kids suffer. And then kids have kids. The most poignant and sad fact is that in our society we consider it a right to have children, regardless of how screwed up the parent/s may be. It should be absolutely mandatory that one attends courses on child-rearing the second one is pregnant. Yet we fight, as a society, virtually every reasonable effort to promote teaching of sex education, ethical behaviors, parenting skills and there are no consequences for ill behavior, for kids and all too often, even for adults. 

I grew up in a situation where my brothers and I were left alone day in, day out, from the time I was 5. Somehow we managed to grow up ethical children. We did not hurt anyone and we did not kill animals. About the worst I ever did was steal some candy from the five and dime store, but I felt so badly about it, because I KNEW it was wrong, that I went back and paid for it the next time I had a nickel.

Sure, once in a while we got into some trouble, but most of it was very, very minor. I don't know where our sense of right and wrong came from because we did not get it at home. I believe a lot of my upbringing actually came from the excellent and caring teachers I had, who spent an hour or more after school trying to talk with me or other kids who hung around and work in their classroom. Now, you are lucky to get any of them to stay at school. And for many, teaching is not teaching, it is about playing a disciplinarian all day. Who would want that job? Not me. I am a teacher.

None the less, we managed somehow to grow up without killing cats and dogs or other children, wanting to beat the shit out of a classmate or thinking about blowing up the school and killing people we did not like. I also believe that there is an innate (genetically derived) sense of right and wrong within people and in some, this sense is damaged because of anoxia at childbirth, parental drugs or alcohol abuse or any variety of neglect and abuse as one grows up. There are many causes and directing resources at the causes is the best prevention. When perpetrators are identified, it is often way too late to save them and save their next victim (who may well be a human being).

Society must recognize when there are troubled kids or adults and step in immediately to do something definitive about it and sooner than later. But we are too busy doing other things and the societal programs necessary to intervene are simply not there because of a view of government that says it should be taken care of on a local level and a lack of funding in most local levels.