Puppy buried alive? I'll bury the bastards

The Pietermaritzburg story about a seven-week-old puppy with two spears driven into it and then buried alive made my blood boil.

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s animal cruelty. Imagine the mentality of the human filth that did this. Taking a defenceless animal and inflicting the cruelty of which only our disgusting species is capable. Animals don’t attack out of malice and spite; they kill for food or to defend themselves or their territory. Only human beings take pleasure in inflicting pain on others.

The answer to this conduct is not to put the perpetrators on trial because our laws are hopelessly too soft on animal cruelty. What you want to do is to take the perpetrators and put them on show. Make a short documentary of what this garbage has done. Then make them go from one city to the next and be made to stand in front of a hall of people who get to watch what they did.

Then do a question-and-answer session.

The audience gets to pose questions to the filth who perpetrated the act without any police or security present to protect them from the wrath of that audience. Make them as defenceless as that puppy. Let them plead family problems and whatever other garbage they believe justifies this outrage.

If by some miracle they finish their countrywide tour in one piece, then bring them to me and let them try to convince me. Don’t forget to send along their clinical psychologist and any other geniuses who want to try to justify their conduct.

At times the human species is capable of acts so despicable that you wonder whether we aren’t a danger to the well-being of the universe.

While we are on the subject, I’d like to hear from the Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife officials exactly why Nkululeko, a hippo, was culled last month. I understand that the hippo was loose and dangerous and that action had to be taken.

What I’d like to know is whether culling was the only solution or just the expedient one.

We really do need to toughen up our sentencing for animal cruelty. Give people a good reason to pause before they behave the way they do.