Thursday July 3, 2008, 9:44 pm
Awwww :(

Thursday July 3, 2008, 9:56 pm
Silly GOOSE!, thx Cher!

Thursday July 3, 2008, 10:48 pm
With the witnesses, maybe something can be done now to the one's doing this to the animals in the apartment complex. How sick they must be to do these things. Glad Goose E Goose will be alright. Thanks Cher.

Friday July 4, 2008, 2:26 am
why do stupid people do such stupid things this goose did't hurt any one

Friday July 4, 2008, 2:42 am
Can't believe someone can be so cruel... sick, sick, sick!!!
Hope they catch this guy soon and put him in a straight jacket.
There must be a special place in hell for these people.

Friday July 4, 2008, 6:07 am
This is so sad.

Friday July 4, 2008, 6:59 pm
I dont know if worldwide random attacks on animals are becoming more numerous?It would be difficult to assess,in many ways.I beleive that such attacks rose in Britain last year (according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or RSPCA)..
While I beleive that environment (role models,abuse class et al),can have an effect on behaviour,its still no excuse..though parents,communities and governments can help to put a child on the right road,and therefore have to take some responsibility.However I lived in some tough urban neighbourhoods,but I can't remember any violence against pets.In fact I remember other kids ,who were rumoured to have done such things,being thought of as bad,or wrong (whether the rumours were accurate or not,I don't know).
I don't want to sound like an old timer,saying "oh it was better in my day"..and I am sure that animals were randomly attacked in those days , but I just keep hearing of so many sickening incidents.If it was purely on sites like this,which focus on animal cruelty,then that may partially explain why I hear of more incidents.However I get news from lots of sources,and the rspca statistics on British animal abuse,do indicate a worsening here.
I would be interested in hearing what other people here think.

Sunday July 6, 2008, 10:09 am

My impression is the same as yours, Rob... I keep noting news and signing petitions for horrendous things and I'm absolutely shocked at the amount... What also saddens me is the attitude of at least some of the RSPCA inspectors: when I lived in the UK, I reported a case of animal neglect, about a poor cat who was SO THIN, and light as a feather, so many fleas it was scary, and the amount of flea pooh was beyond belief. He had some masking tape around one of his paws, and I cried when I got home. I contacted the RSPCA, and followed the case, phoning them and asking how it was going etc, but they weren't very helpful. But as I didn't see the cat in the place where I first found him, I assumed that they must have taken him away, but about 10 days later I saw him again in the same house, he could not meow, only open his mouth with no sound, and his appearance was deceptive because he had very long hair, so he didn't look so thin, but when I lifted him it was like lifting a feather.

So I decided to "steal" him, and I did, and nobody saw me, took him home, gave him food and water, which he ate in a way as if he hadn't eaten in his life, so much so that he was sick afterwards, then ate some more. Unfortunately he spent the entire night meowing by the door, scratching the door to be left out. I spent the entire night with him, comforting him and caressing him, and he liked it, but he still wanted to go. He was so desperate that early in the morning I had to take him back, and I cried and cried cause I couldn't understand why the inspectors kept telling me that they had been to the house and they thought he was OK, and they believed what the woman told them about him being allergic or something, and that was why he was so thin. I asked them whether they had lifted him to see how thin he really was, and whether they had seen the amount of flee pooh he had all over his body, and they told me some junk just to shut me up. How I cried for that cat for ages, and just couldn't do anything!! (I also went to the vet to ask him for help but he couldn't help me either, and other organisations didn't either, told me there was nothing they could do!!).

Sorry, I've gone off track here, but mentioning the RSPCA always brings memories of this precious cat that I was unable to help and the feelings of guilt will always be with me.

Sunday July 6, 2008, 10:18 am

And in answer to Robin's comment "why do stupid people do such stupid things this goose did't hurt any one", it's because those people who hurt innocent animals have very low self-esteem, very low opinion of themselves, big inferiority complexes, and tiny willies, so they do these things which really make them look even more moronic than they already are, to get attention I suppose, as they're nobodies with nothing to show for themselves. No-brainers with extremely low intelligence quotients.

In fact, a case in point is: whenever I go to the Equanimal.org page (an AR organisation who bravely do actions against animal abusers), the messages that hunters or bullfight fans leave on their web pages are ALWAYS, without exception, lacking in anything intelligent to say, all they do is abuse and insult, they know nothing better, and they can never support their arguments FOR animal murder. Never. I just see it everywhere, animal abusers = thick unintelligent people with no education, total ignorant morons.

Thursday July 10, 2008, 11:36 am
So happy the goose survived and is at a safe place.