Animal abusers should taste own medicine

As I sit here writing this column, my feline friend Dudley is curled up in his favourite spot on top of the computer monitor, doing that twitching thing cats do when they’re dreaming.
It’s warm on top of the monitor and he loves it there.
I can’t blame him either. It was 40 below when he was found abandoned in one of the neighbouring communities last winter, dehydrated, starved and nearly frozen to death. He’d been out there for days, the SPCA said. No one knows who abandoned the little black and white ball of fluff, but the shelter people figure someone just didn’t want the kitten anymore so they drove out there to dump him like he was a bag of garbage. It happens a lot, they said.
Personally, I hope the guy’s car breaks down in the middle of nowhere someday and all the authorities find are bloody shoelaces and mountain lion tracks in the snow. Now that sounds like justice.
Animal abuse is an everyday thing in this country. Just look at the couple in Newcastle who pled guilty last week to animal cruelty.
One admitted to willfully causing unnecessary pain to their animals and both pled guilty to failing to provide suitable and adequate food, water, shelter and care for their pets.
A witness said one of the abusers had grabbed her dog by the neck, dragged it downstairs, threw it against a closed storage door, then locked the dog inside. She then shoved and buried the cat's head into the sofa, slapped it across the face and threw it in the storage room.
Abusing and torturing your pets won’t be tolerated by civilized society. I’m glad Judge Lordon gave the pair a considerable fine to help them remember that. It’s a lesson they won’t soon forget, I’m sure.
On the other hand, there are those who get away with animal abuse, like the jerk from Behchoko, an hour or so down the road from Yellowknife. This monster cut the throats of seven newborn puppies ear-to-ear a couple of weeks back and threw them in the dump while they were still alive. They weren’t dead though. He didn’t cut deep enough to kill them, just to expose them to severe infection. They suffered there for days before they were found and brought to the vet in Yellowknife, but they were too weak from dehydration and infection to be operated on. One by one, the beautiful little pups succumbed to the vicious wounds inflicted on them by the still unknown assailant.
It boggles the mind. Why would anybody do something so – there’s no better word for it – evil?
But one of the little pups found the strength to hold on to life.
A supervisor at the animal hospital says the little black and brown pup they’ve named Bella is slowly getting better.
"She is walking like a normal puppy already, you know, a little unbalanced, just getting her legs underneath of her but her neck wound doesn’t seem to be affecting her neurological stimulation or anything like that; she’s eating and growing really fast,” she told reporters. They've already found a home for Bella, once she is old enough to leave the hospital.
I have no doubt animals being abused by people will continue as long as there are animals and people. Still, you can always hope jerks like these abusers get a taste of their own medicine someday.