Why We Shouldn't Tolerate Animal Cruelty

By animal cruelty, I don't mean using animals for food, medical research, or as a resource for fibre. I mean the deliberate torture of an animal for the thrill of causing pain to a creature smaller and weaker.

A few years back I read the book It by Stephen King. The evil clown didn't bother me. What bothered me was the story of a little boy, Patrick, and an abandoned refrigerator. Patrick liked to lock animals in the refrigerator and keep them there until they died from aphixiation. He started with birds and mice and then worked his way up to a Cocker Spaniel puppy. King spent quite a few pages describing the pup's death. In the back of my mind, I was wondering, "When will Patrick want to do this to a kid?" And frankly, I was glad when the monster got him first.

So in my own way, I have put up this page in support of the people on the net who want to stop the senseless cruelty of animals. I believe that the only way to sway the majority of people is to convince them through rational methods.

So instead of decrying the cruelty of these acts, I will list people who have either practiced animal cruelty or witnessed it and have gone on to commit murder of human beings. That's right, human beings, just like you or your loved ones.

The Criminal	His act of animal cruelty	His crime(s) against human(s)
Micheal Cartier	pulled a rabbit's legs out of its sockets when he was four years old! and threw a kitten through a closed window.	Shot Kristin Lardner three times in the head. She died.
Henry Lee Lucas	killed animals and had sex with their corpses	killed his mother, his common law wife and an unknown number of people
Edward Kemper	cut up two cats	killed his grandparents, his mother, and seven other women
Theodore Robert Bundy	witnessed animal cruelty by his grandfather	killed thirty-three women
Jeffrey Dahmer	participated in the deliberate killings of animals by car.	murdered 17 men
Richard Allen Davis	set "cat fires"	murdered Polly Klaas, age 12
Richard Speck	threw a bird into a ventilator fan	killed eight women
Randy Roth	taped a cat to a car's engine and used an industrial sander on a frog.	killed two of his wives and attempted to kill a third.
David Richard Davis	shot and killed two healthy ponies, threw a wine bottle at a pair of kittens, hunted with illegal methods	murdered his wife, Shannon Mohr Davis, for insurance money
Peter Kurten The Dusseldorf Monster	tortured dogs, practiced bestiality while killing the animal	murdered or attempted to murder over 50 men, women, and children.
Albert De Salvo The Boston Strangler	Would place a dog and a cat in a crate with a partition between them. After starving the animals for several days, he would remove the partition and watch them kill each other	Raped and killed nine women by strangulation. He would often pose the bodies in a shocking manner after death.
Richard Trenton Davis The Vampire Killer of Sacremento	Bit the heads off birds, drained animals for their blood, killed animals for their organs	Killed six people in random attacks. One police officer who was at the scene of the first murder confessed to having nightmares about the crime for months afterwards
Luke Woodham	Set fire to his own dog, Sparkles. He poured accelerant down her throat and set fire to her neck both inside and outside.	Went on a shooting spree which killed two girls ages 16 and 17 after stabbing his mother to death. He is 16 years old.
``Kobe Killer'', as of yet unnamed 15 year old boy in Japan	Beheaded a cat and strangled several pigeons.	Decapitated 11-year-old Jun Hase, and battered to death a 10-year-old girl with a hammer and assaulted three other children in separate attacks.
Richard William Leonard	His grandmother forced him to kill and multilate cats and kittens when he was a child.	Killed Stephen Dempsey with a bow and arrow. And killed Ezzedine Bahmad by slashing his throat.
Tom Dillion	Randomly shot people's pets	Shot and killed five men: Jamie Paxton, 21 Claude Hawkins, 49 Donald Welling, 35 Kevin Loring, 30 Gary Bradely, 44
Eric Smith	At the age of nine he strangled a neighbor's cat, a Siamese	At the age of thirteen, Smith bludgeoned Derrick Robie aged four to death. Smith lured the little boy into the woods, choked him, sodomized him with a stick, then beat him to death with a rock.
Jack Bassenti	When his dog had puppies, he buried all but one of them alive.	Raped and murdered three women
David Berkowitz Son of Sam	poisoned his mother's parakeet out of jealousy	shot thirteen young men and women six people died and at least two suffered permanent disabilities
Arthur Shawcross	Repeatedly threw a kitten into a lake until the kitten drowned from exhaustion.	killed a young girl then... after serving 15 and 1/2 years in prison, killed 11 more women
Michael Perry	He decapitated a neighbor's dog	Killed his parents, his infant nephew, and two neighbors.
Jason Massey	Killed cats, dogs, and cows	killed his thirteen year old stepsister and a fourteen year old boy.
Patrick Sherrill	Stole neighborhood pets and encouraged his dog to attack them	killed 14 people at his workplace
Keith Hunter Jesperson The Happy Face Killer	strangled a cat in an ongoing pattern of animal abuse condoned by his father	confessed to killing eight women
Joel Steinburg	refused medical treatment his adopted daughter Lisa's pet rabbit when it broke its leg.	Killed his adopted daughter, Lisa, age six. Lisa also suffered from extensive bruises all over her body. Her hygene was very poor, and Steinburg was seen tossing Lisa into the Atlantic surf at the beach.
Christine Falling	Tortured and killed cats to see if they really had nine lives	murdered five children and one elderly man by the age of nineteen
Rod Ferrel leader of a gang of teen "vampires"	In October of 1996, broke into an animal shelter, beat dogs, and multilated puppies. Before that, he had been torturing and killing cats and dogs from the age of nine to the age of sixteen.	At the age of sixteen, he bludgeoned an elderly couple, parents of another gang member, to death. He is now on death row.

This is just a few of the killers who started with animals and progressed to people. If you have any more case histories with animal cruelty, then e-mail me at:
sweetkittie_2000@yahoo.com

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