Yep. That sums up people for ya. I don't understand some things, if you can't take good care of a pet, why get it in the first place?
I know of a person who had a dog, they just kept it outside all the time, it was lonely. They heard it barking and yelping outside, and they jst thought it wanted attention(and didn't bother to give it that), so after a few hours when they went outside they found it tangled up in its leash, dead.
My mom told me a story once, when she was a kid she had a dog. It had a few babies, and the dad(always on drugs)took the dog to the basement, made her watch her puppies get thrown against a wall and die, and then she was taken out and shot.
People let anger go too far with these things, as horrible as it is, it already happened, you couldn't stop that specific case. So beating them or something is just hypocritical. Even though they deserve it, it's just out of hand. And what a thing to do to your own kid, leave it to die. Man, I don't know what people expect nowadays.
I was aware stuff like this happens, it's pretty common, I see stuff like that on TV a few times, and stories. Again, I really don't understand why people have a pet or anything that takes resonsibility and get angry with it. Every now and then at the select few forums I visit something like this will pop up...people are so dang weird. Funny to think you can't understand your own kind.