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And you say the U.S. sucks...
Topic Started: Jul 14 2012, 04:09 AM (45 Views)
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You guys in the UK should be ashamed.

http://www.examiner.com/article/judges-order-belfast-dog-named-lennox-to-be-destroyed
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You really, really suck.

http://www.examiner.com/article/sad-to-report-another-lennox-type-victim-of-bsl?cid=PROD-redesign-right-next
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Host of the Animal Planet network show “It’s Me or the Dog”, Victoria Stilwell, had met with Lennox’s owners, the Barnes family, and had offered to find the condemned dog a new home in the United States. However, the Belfast City Council ruled out rehousing or relocating the dog.

Stillwell, the celebrity dog trainer, told the Belfast Telegraph before the execution, “I have received the Barnes family’s approval to take Lennox, and while I can only imagine the heartache they would feel at seeing him go, they have said they would prefer him to have a happy life elsewhere rather than see it end.

“My long-standing private offer to absorb all of the cost and organize all of the travel arrangements to transport him at no expense to the Belfast City Council has been with those responsible for making the final decisions regarding Lennox for some time.”
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Looks like he was killed already... :(




Even I, who don't pay much attention on dogs, felt sad about that.

Their logic was : "Although he does not belong to a certain banned breed of dogs, he still looks alike, therefore he should be terminated too".

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I simply can't watch/read anything about dogs/animals that would make me cry.

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And the news that comes out of America is all rainbows and cupcakes?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172255/10-000-reward-offered-case-tortured-dog-grotesquely-swollen-tongue-having-ELECTRICAL-TAPE-wrapped-snout.html
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perfectJem
Jul 14 2012, 12:29 PM
Every country has assholes, here's the difference in the two stories: You linked an example where an asshole abused a dog and shelter workers rescued and tended to the dog. In my example a dog was in a loving family and taken by assholes in power who were offered, "Let us move it to another country at no expense to you" and they basically said, "No fuck you, we'll just kill it instead". In one situation the system was helping the dog, in the other it was destroying the dog.

Not comparable.
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You're missing the point. Deliberately I might add. I'm not saying the stories are the same, I'm saying terrible things happen in all countries including yours so how does this one story make ours any worse than yours? Also do you agree with every decision the people in power in your country make? Really?!

Anyway as much as I feel sorry for the family that had their pet killed I can think of much bigger problems our government needs to sort out. Yours probably has more important issues they need to focus on too.
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I never said it made it worse. A lot of things about the US sucks too. LB is often talking about how awful the US is compared to everywhere else and I ran across this article and couldn't believe it. There are stories here where a pet gets shot by a gun crazy cop and it's bad. Spur of the moment situation caused a bad result. This though, was where the system took a dog out of a family because it looked like a certain breed, kept it in awful conditions for 2 years, had offers to get the dog out of the country at no expense to them, and STILL decided the best path was to put the dog down. Not once did they decide this was a huge overreaction to the situation in two years?

And yes, I agree, every government has bigger things to handle and they end up wasting time on matters they shouldn't.
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I cant belive anything about a dog would make National TV news. Trash TV.
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