Animal Cruelty and Peanut's Law. BEWARE: Graphic detail.

I am so sickened and horrified by the disgusting atrocious death of cruelly stolen, tortured and killed much loved family pet puppy Peanut that Im not sure I can even put words together.

Two men, 21yrs and 24yrs old, stole the puppy and then spent an extended period of time mutilating and torturing the puppy before finally killing it...they videoed it on a mobile phone. Apparently, they can be heard laughing on the recording.

I have given a warning in my title because I wish I had not begun to read into the details of the torture because it is haunting. I think I only got a couple of sentences into the description before realising that I did not need to know such graphic detail. What I do know and will never forget is reading that the men used garden shears to snip and hack off parts of Peanut while he was still alive. It is reported that he tried to escape from his torturers on the stumps that remained after his legs had been chopped off...too much for me.

I only repeat those details here in an effort to arouse enough disgust that citizens might demand that our justice system actually metes out JUSTICE.

The maximum penalty for animal cruelty is 2 years imprisonment. However, the longest sentence ever given is....wait for it....

4 months

That's right!!! An animal can be shockingly and unbelievably cruelly tortured and killed and the most the court has handed down is 4 months!!! With half time for parole that's a mere 8 wks retreat at the communities expense. Where is the deterrent in that?????

It is well known that many people who torture and kill animals go on to torture and kill children and young women. Many serial killers began their murderous career torturing and killing animals.

The question I want to ask is this: Why are our courts so LENIENT with Violent Crime??????

If I say used illegal drugs I could spend years in jail, but murder or maim a person or animal and there is a better chance of a lighter sentence.

WHY is this????????!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not understand...

please if anyone ever reads my blog...go here and sign the petition...follow the links and sign the other animal cruelty petitions that are available...PLEASE...we have to show we care and that light sentences are just not good enough

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