What On Earth Is Wrong With Americans To Allow This To Take Place, Arent They Supposed To Be Civilised!!?

[RATTER15]

These rabbits must be terrified!!! It makes me sick what some people will do for entertainment, especially involving the young children who will often know no better!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znHZ9NNjeBk

[gness]

Clanad...fox hunting was animal abuse but nothing...nothing at all.. comes close to Rodeo cruelty and abuse.

[RATTER15]

Sqad, you clearly know nothing about rabbits! of course it is highly stressed! and you obviously did not see the rabbit being thrown, and how much care do you think those children were taking so as not to stand on the rabbits.

Stick to humans Sqad.

[Sqad]

Ratter....OK

But in the past you have intimated that i know little about humans ;-)
You may well be right on both counts.....;-)

[RATTER15]

Maybe sqad, maybe ;-) keep working at it, you will learn a lot about both on here, you could also learn a lot from the NHS Direct site!! :-)

[Sqad]

RATTER.......LOL
Isn't it called NHS24 now?

[gness]

Hi Sqad....tell me...if I kicked one of your cats in the tummy sending it yards across a field would your cat be happy and not stressed...would you be happy and not stressed.....and how fast would I have to run.....bearing in mind "the leg"?...... xx

[RATTER15]

There you go Sqad http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en/About

NHS Direct on there, maybe its changing.

[wolf63]

An event like this is only acceptable when the animal is having fun too.

Fox hunting isn't much fun for the fox.

As a species we have much to learn and too arrogant to improve our ways.

[Sqad]

gness....if anybody kicked ANY animal i would be to it's total defense.

I didn't see any physical abuse at all on that piece of film.

Maybe i should look more carefully.

[AB Editor]

Weird. It must be boring is Oregon if that's what they're doing for fun.

You have to remind yourself that Americans are foreigners sometimes and that our values don't necessarily make it across the Atlantic with our language.

[emmie]

we have our own fools remember, not just the tally ho brigade, badger baiting, cock fighting, dog fighting, it still goes on, perhaps not as it used to but it still does.

[RATTER15]

Lol Ed, you trying to wind up Clanad?

[boxtops]

Clanad, fox hunting IS banner, but they still get round it.

[gness]

Sqad...tried looking again to tell you when but my screen is jumping...however I did manage to get the bit where the rabbits were being thrown from under the vehicle.....still jolly uncomfortable I think? x

[Carakeel]

The point is Sqad,

Can one condone and should one encourage

1. Any amount of cruelty to animals?
2. teaching young children that cruelty to animals is acceptable and allowed?
3. parents encouraging their children to be cruel to animals of any kind?

Simple answer is a big fat NO!

This answer goes for cruelty in any country, including the UK. I hate what they do at the Rodeos in the US, the Bull Runs in Spain etc etc. The list is long!

[AB Editor]

"Lol Ed, you trying to wind up Clanad?"

Not on purpose! Honest!

[Sqad]

\\\\You have to remind yourself that Americans are foreigners sometimes and that our values don't necessarily make it across the Atlantic with our language.\\

Said to the background strains of "Pomp and Circumstance March" by Sir Edward Elgar.

[RATTER15]

I agree em10, but those activities are illegal in the UK with very heavy fines or imprisonment, the activity I have raised as objectionable is a legal activity in the USA, what sort of message is that to give the children that are chasing and treading all over these rabbits.

[Sqad]

Carakeel


1)....No

2)....No

3).....No

Buit as i have said in my post above........I didn't see any physical cruelty.