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How can humans be so cruel?

Dec 03, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Mankind has traditionally been cruel to animals. Over the centuries there have been bear-baiting, cock-fighting and of course bull fighting which still persists to some considerable criticism by animal welfare societies. But today, right here in Guyana, dog fighting still continues.  Dogs are put into a ring and made to fight until one tears out the throat of the other.   I knew this but I was brought face to face with it. Yesterday afternoon a pickup truck deposited a dog on the seawalls, chained it to a table and left it.  It’s the end of the weekend dog fight sessions – and the losers must be got rid of.  People around were keeping clear – it had a cut on its head, and it lay under the table without moving.   One man gave it some food but it couldn’t eat. This morning, Tuesday, I was in the area and heard about the dog and examined it.  It was still alive and had some thirty to forty percent of its throat missing, the hole filled with a gaping wound full of worms.  It must have been in agony.
It was a big dog, brown, a bit of a rice eater, but with the cut ears of a fighting dog.  It had obviously lost. Thinking to take it to the GSPCA to have it humanely put down, the poor dog died as I watched. What is going on in this country?   Surely these dog fights are known to local people, surely they can inform the police, surely this must be against the law?  Does nobody care?  What is happening to our society where a person or persons can just dump a living animal in severe pain on the seawalls to die?
It’s very easy to say, let’s put the people who do this in a pit, let’s put some of their fighting dogs in with them, let’s see how they feel when their throats are torn out and they lay, bleeding, breathing their last. They may scoff, but deep down they must know: we have to feel sorrow for these people; these people who are so sick that they have no compassion; that they have to get their kicks by watching innocent animals fight to their last. These people have no humanity, no lives, no idea of how we must all live together – humans, animals, all creatures, if we are to survive and to exist and face the future.  People who are not of our society.   It is so sad.
Peter Bouchard

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