What can we do

In today's paper, we read about a guy who hit a boerboel with the handle of a pick axe till he was unconscious. Apart from the obvious thought of what possesses a person to be so inhumane and then try and justify it. I know Im going to get a roar of dissaproval for my next comment. If he had done this to another human he would be jailed for life. WHY do humans have a better punishment dished out for their suffering? Surely a cruel and barbaric act should be punished the same no matter what? If a person can do this to an animal and feel no remorse its not long before that kind of unattached attitude moves onto human abuse. The FBI have linked animal abuse to all serial killers, its just the beginning of the end. If these people had realised just how wrong their behaviour was, whenthey were being cruel to animals, they probably would not have developed into the psychotic murderers they became. The sad thing is if he had done this to someones car he would probably receive a harsher punishment than what he will no doubtly get for this disgusting act. My website was created to try and find homes for shelter and abandoned dogs and I will tell you, there are days where I am so overwhelmed with the amount of dogs neglected or dumped because their owners are off to greener pastures and it would COST them financially to take their dog with them. Here again why accept to care for an animal if you are not going to follow through. What would people do if it was TOO EXPENSIVE to take their human children with them, would our local orphanages be filled to the brim. NO, why because sadly we do not respect our fellow animals and we are a bunch of selfish, self centred, ignorant group of mammals. Not only have we selfishly destroyed our planet but WE domesticated the dog, he didnt ask for it. Im pretty sure he was incredibly happy out in the wild but in all our wisdom we decided we would like them to be our pets and we bred them to have some of the most horriffic defects because we think its cute. Now that we have managed to mess their natural lives up, we disgard them like wasted food as shown in a recent article showing euthanised dogs dumped in a bin :( So sad, surely there is something we can do to stop this madness. We need a voice and a legal standing to help these defenceless animals. They can no longer fend for themselves in the wild we took that away from them. Its our time to stand up for them and accept the mess we created. I love my dogs like my children and could NEVER dump or hurt them, they are the reason I get up and go out to work, so I can provide them with the best life I can provide. This was what I agreed to do when they came into my life and I will honour this to the end. Will you?