{"id":1442,"date":"2007-10-14T18:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T22:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2007-10-14T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T22:08:17","slug":"on-animal-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"On Animal Cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a private animal control contractor hired to clear a housing project of animals did so. By throwing sedated dogs off a bridge to their deaths.<\/a><\/p>\n

Raids were conducted on Monday and Wednesday, and residents told TV reporters they saw the animal control workers inject the animals. When they asked what they were giving them, they said they were told it was a sedative for the drive to the shelter.<\/p>\n

“They came as if it were a drug raid,” said Alma Febus, an animal welfare activist. “They took away dogs, cats and whatever animal they could find. Some pets were taken away in front of children.”<\/p>\n

But instead of being taken to a shelter, the pets and strays were thrown 50 feet from a bridge in the neighboring town of Vega Baja, according to Fontanez, witnesses and activists, apparently before dawn Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Many were already dead when they threw them, but others were alive,” said Jose Manuel Rivera, who lives next to the bridge. “Some of the animals managed to climb to the highway even though they were all battered, but about 50 animals remained there, dead.”<\/p>\n

Rivera said he alerted officials, who spread lime over the animals’ corpses to control the stench.<\/p>\n

Animal Control Solution owner Julio Diaz said he went to the bridge when he heard of the allegations, but remains unconvinced that the dead animals are the same ones his company collected.<\/p>\n

“We have never thrown animals off any place. We always take them to our local shelter and euthanize them,” he said. “They can’t prove that they are the same dogs that we picked up.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have no words. This is inhumane and despicable.<\/p>\n

Because that last quote — “They can’t prove that they are the same dogs that we picked up” — reads to me as a tacit admission that animals have<\/i> been thrown off bridges.<\/p>\n

Julio Diaz, how would you like to be shot with a tranq dart and thrown naked off a bridge? You work with animals — you own a company called “Animal Control Solutions,” for crying out loud — so forgive me for thinking you’d have some<\/i> compassion. Asshole. \ud83d\ude21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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