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mithridates · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:29 am Post subject: Isn't animal abuse illegal?

I was looking through the news sites for something worth translating and came upon a disturbing article on a tv show on SBS that interviewed a woman that never leaves her house, beats her dogs and says that she feels good when she kills animals. So what do they do? They put her on a diet, give her some treatment and then give her the injured dog back after it gets back from the hospital. Nothing whatsoever about criminal charges, which reminds me that I've never checked into the laws here on animal abuse. Apparently some netizens are trying to organize a campaign to get the dog(s?) taken away from her and to someplace safe.

Kind of a fucked up story. Shouldn't this be criminal? Anybody else know about it? It was on tv on the 3rd apparently.

http://koreabeat.com/?p=90

doggyji · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:52 am Post subject:

That's so messed up. I think this site is pretty good when you want to check the laws word for word.

www.lawnb.com

Here's the animal protection law:

http://www.lawnb.com/lawinfo/law/info_law_searchview.asp?ljo=l&lawid=00123900

wo buxihuan hanguoren · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Location: Suyuskis

Depends. If the animal is a S-E Asian, then it is perfectly legal to mistreat, abuse, and provide the guy with inappropriate housing, no matter how much the fellow likes Korea or how fluent he is in Korean.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

I saw that show from a chicken hof. It was.. appetizing.

Alan Partidge · Joined: 29 Nov 2005

That's really sad, but certainly not unique to Korea. The scary thing is how she actually enjoys killing them. She clearly has mental problems and should never be allowed to have a pet.
Dahmer started out torturing and killing animals, didn't he?
The people that returned her pets need a kick up the a*se.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Underdog!where are you when we need you?

People should understand that in this country, dogs should be allowed to carry weapons.

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

It reminds me a little of people in the States who hoard hundreds of animals without the means or mental capacity to take care of them. And yeah, virtually all serial killers torture animals as kids. They also set fires for fun and I forget what the third indicator is.

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

Dogs are tortured every day here for soup.
Cats are tortured for tonic.

What's the difference if you do it for any other reason?

pheeeel · Joined: 17 Jan 2007

I know they dissect frogs alive in science classes. We did it at my hagwon. I'm pretty sure thats considered animal cruelty in N. America and probably Europe too.
The retort is that they're not feeling any pain because they're anesthesized and injected with ketamine. However, the fear of over-anaesthizing and premaurely killing the frog leads to under-anesthesizing. And thus you have a conscious frog during the procedure, squirming around while being cut open. I had to conduct the procedure. Pretty crappy I thought.

mithridates · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:24 am Post subject:

That's one reason I never wanted to take biology.

So what would happen with a case like this in Canada or the US? Or Australia? That reminds me, I heard waaaay back when that it was illegal to declaw cats in Australia but I've never verified that. Is that true?

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

That, I don't know. But it is true that 90%+ of serial killers indulged in the three.

mithridates · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject:

I'd say it's true in her case. She doesn't just beat the animals but also said that she feels pleasure the moment they die. Somebody more sane but with rage problems would probably say they felt terrible once they realized that the animal had actually died from the beating.

Grimalkin · Joined: 22 May 2005

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005