Woman throws live puppies into fast moving river. Your opinion?

[Punk_FAS]

Heard about this on another forum, and that thread got locked before I could discuss it there.  Here is the link on CNN.com about the story - http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/01/puppies.river.toss/index.html?hpt=T2

Here is the video link (I'm surprised CNN actually linked the video on a main page article) -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb4_1283184704

It seems this took place somewhere in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

I wanted to hear others' opinions on this video.  What is your reaction when you see the video?

I read a lot about the video, last night actually, and decided not to watch it til today.  After watching it, I didn't find it all that brutal.  The puppies appear to be very very young, probably a week old at most.  While I find it sad, I don't necessarily think these people were trying to cause pain to these animals.  They weren't overly cruel in their actions IMO.  They didn't spike them on the ground, or do their best to make sure they landed on one of those tree branches before they hit the ground.  The girl did get a little "creative" with her tosses near the end, trying to throw them high.

In many countries, the US included, unwanted puppies, kittens, etc., are often killed quickly after birth, or thrown into rivers, etc.  I know I've heard of people in the US putting a bunch of unwanted kittens, or ones that couldn't otherwise be cared for, into a bag with a brick and thrown into a river.  I find the act sad, but I suppose it's one of the more humane, and inexpensive ways to discard animals that otherwise might have starved to death, etc.  I'm not sure if they have the equivalent of a Humane Society in these other smaller countries, where they can take unwanted animals instead of dealing with them themselves.

What do you guys think?

[Mask]

I'm tempted to agree with you that this video isn't all that brutal, but that may be a case of  desensitization. While I watched it, I thought of the tens of thousands of pets that are euthanized each day, sometimes in a much more inhumane way (heard of the gas chambers?). But just because shit like that (and worse) happens all the time doesn't mean it isn't brutal, I suppose.

What's probably most disturbing is that the girl in the video doesn't seem to mind doing this at all. You'd expect that from shelters personnel who do that daily, not from a young girl.
In fact, it looks like she's enjoying it: "Creative" tosses, she's smiling, and she thought it'd be a good idea to film this -why?
Although it is true that it could have been much worse, I don't think that makes her any less of a soulless sadist. (Here I am judging someone I know from a 1 minute video  )


Have you seen the documentary Earthlings? You may want to look at this excerpt about pets. The whole thing is worth a watch IMO.

Also related (maybe): Who goes Nazi?, written in 1941.

[soh]

I want to fucken kill that bitch

[V!RaL]

I can't respond to this video.. It's sick. You could sell the fucking puppies to a good home, Why would anyone do this..

[Er!c@]

I want to fucken kill that bitch

was my basic reaction.

If you dont want puppies then keep your dog where its not gonna get knocked up simple as that.

sick bitch

[fdrjk]

What about the story of that one guy in Iraq who threw a puppy off a mountain and go discharged?   

[V!RaL]

STOP TELLING US STUFF ABOUT THINGS

[soh]

I want to fucken kill that bitch

was my basic reaction.

If you dont want puppies then keep your dog where its not gonna get knocked up simple as that.

sick bitch

My family and I have adopted 6 pets in the course of two years. This year made the mark. We adopted 3 two day old newborn kittens. My older sister found a litter of 7 kittens near her work in Hollywood. We had to bottle feed them. It was rough. I could understand why people would want to get rid of animals. But that's a very inhumane way to do so. Which is why I want to beat the shit out of that fucken bitch.

What about the story of that one guy in Iraq who threw a puppy off a mountain and go discharged?   

We had that thread, I remember posting in it like
a year and a half ago. And Dervish brought out the
point when he goes bird hunting, he at least snaps
their neck so they won't feel anymore pain.
But yeah that Iraq guy was a sick fuck.

[fdrjk]

STOP TELLING US STUFF ABOUT THINGS

 

 

[peewee_RotA]

I want to fucken kill that bitch

Seriously, it should have been kittens.

[Punk_FAS]

I can't respond to this video.. It's sick. You could sell the fucking puppies to a good home, Why would anyone do this..

This happened in Bosnia-Herzegovena, a little country in SE Europe.  I'm not intimately familiar with that country in the slightest, but from what little I've read about this incident, it appears that Bosnia has a big problem with stray dogs, many of them diseased, as well as an overabundance of births from those strays.  I'm imagining the ratio of available puppies to "good homes" that are looking for puppies is heavily in the favor of the puppies.

Considering the likely situation of the area this video was taken in, I don't find the method "sick".  It's a tad cruel, and not something I believe I could partake in, at least not with the apparent lack of emotion from the girl doing the tossing.  I can't really explain why they wanted to videotape this and share it on the web though.  That is the main thing that brings this whole act's moral base in question for me.

I would agree that the video of the guy in Iraq doing a puppy toss is fucked up.  He didn't throw the puppy into water, he threw a seemingly healthy puppy down onto rocks, and what he knew would be its unnecessary death.  This was an American too.  I see this current topic being much different than the one that took place in Iraq.

[|iR|Focalor]

Out of all the shit that's gone on in Bosnia over the last 2 decades, I don't find this to be anywhere NEAR the top of list of inhumane and cruel things. A portion of the population can be systematically hunted down and murdered... and no one gives a shit. They say, "Oh well, that's just war in some backwards European country. It happens all the time." But if someone tosses a cute little puppy in a river, THEN it's some totally cruel objectionable thing and they say, "This is HORRIBLE! We can't allow this to happen! Someone must intervene!"

[Slayer :D]

I have to agree with Focalor, several puppies getting drowned is a lot less wrong than genocide.

[Om3ga]

Omg, this is terrible.

I hope she had a good reason .

I hope it was because the puppies were thirsty, their lives were in danger, it was just an accident, or she was teaching the puppies how to swim.

This shit is just fucken cruel tho.  I hope the puppies are ok.

[|iR|Focalor]

I hope it was because the puppies were thirsty