The dogs left to die after they 'humiliated' their masters

[Thom Little]

Somehow Rey had managed to struggle free from the rope strung around his neck, after being left to die a slow death by strangulation as punishment for being a bad Spanish greyhound.

Rey, who had a life-saving operation on his neck and throat wounds last week, was lucky. Campaigners estimate that 50,000 greyhounds are killed by their owners in Spain each year after they grow too old, or turn out to be too slow to hunt with.

Hanging is just one of the methods used. Dogs have been found thrown into wells, burnt alive and even injected with bleach.

But Rey's intended fate was, even within the levels of cruelty routinely shown to Spanish hunting dogs, especially nasty. The noose around his neck had been set at a height so that his front paws could not touch the ground, meaning that he was intended to stand on his back legs until he was too tired to support himself. When his legs finally buckled, the noose should have done its work.

'They call it the typewriting death, because the dog's back legs scrabble against the ground and make the clicking sound of a typewriter,' said Albert Sorde, of the SOS Galgos greyhound rescue group. 'It is a punishment they save for greyhounds that are deemed to have humiliated or embarrassed their owners.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1676223,00.html

[oasis]

1. Some Spaniards need their asses kicked.

[progressivebydesign]

6. An ass-kicking is too good for them. A short rope is more like it.

Bastards. I really wish that the universe wasn't so damn random, otherwise I'd hope that these pigs would get their due.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. King George says....

If that fate is good enough for Spanish greyhounds, it's good enough treatment for detainees.

[wake.up.america]

8. Yes, the Spanish are infamous for being cruel to animals. I am...

disgusted by such behavior. Bull fighting is much the same. I was born a stone's throw from La Maestranza, the bull ring in Seville, but have never attended a "CORRIDA DE TOROS" there.

[madeline_con]

2. I hear they like to torture bulls, too. n/t

[applegrove]

3. How disgusting!

[Raine]

4. Awful

A friend of mine who is from Spain has been working for at least 20 years to stop some of the abuse not only over there but over here as well.

[Mind_your_head]

5. The mafioso for dogs.......n/t

[rpannier]

7. Just sick

People like that should be kicked and beaten.

[xchrom]

10. i have no words to express my outrage.

[Deja Q]

11. How are other dogs taught that this is what happens when they screw up?

Seems a futile and depraved gesture to me...

[HeeBGBz]

12. Pretty damn heartless

They should do the same to their "owners".

[Obamanaut]

13. My first wet eyes of the new year. Now, I am going to hug my 3

furkids. Sometimes people really tick me off.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. How can anyone treat another being who is capable of as much

love and friendship, as a dog is capable of, like that? I'd humiliate that owner right in sorry jaws, long, hard and continuously, if I'd walk in on something like that. That's the kind of evil sicko people who'd need locked up for their own protection around here.

If the dog was out in the boonies with his owner and the owner was suddenly killed, or died of a heart attack, the dog would probably not leave the owner's body for several hours, or even days. Any being that is that loyal, it's life should be treasured and not wasted.

It made me think of how much I miss my old hound Howdy, that died last January.

[baby_mouse]

15. Revolting! nt

[smirkymonkey]

16. What is this humiliation shit??

I swear, what the hell is it with some men and their fucking egos? They kill animals who have "humiliated" them - how do you let an animal humiliate you unless you are a pathetic, weak, little piece of crap in the first place? Oh, yes - everything is an extenstion of their puny little egos. This makes me sick.

Same goes for men who kill their daughters because of their "honor". :puke: :grr: