Kid cooks pet store animals in school

[bloodyjack]

Pet store animals cooked in school
Fri Jan 21 2005 08:35:35 ET

A Guinea pig and rabbit purchased from a Geauga County pet store ended up on plates at a Cleveland area high school.

A 16-year-old student skinned and cooked the animals during a living skills class on Wednesday, prompting student and parent complaints to the Thompson Township Police Department and Geauga Humane Society. Officials at both agencies said they are investigating.

Friday editions of the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER detail how the incident may warrant animal cruelty charges.

Geauga Humane Officer Sarah Westman said it's illegal to needlessly kill "companion animals" raised for domestic purposes.

"Something irrational and wrong happened," Westman explained.

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[Rabrrrrrr]

1. How odd - we used to kill and skin and eat rabbits all the time

We didn't do it with Guinea pigs, but some people eat 'em.

So what's wrong with this scenario?

It was a living skills class. Are these people seriously so stupid that they don't know where meat comes from and how it's processed?

[iamjoy]

2. You Have A Point..

but then, why would we charge people who kill animals for any reason with animal cruelty? So what if they set a cat on fire or bludgeoned a small dog to death.

I eat meat, but moral vegetarians claim that what they do to the animals is torture.

:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I think, because decent people insist that animals be killed as quickly

and painlessly as possible. That's what my farmer family taught me about farm animals, and incluyding if you have to kill a pet or a horse, etc. And it's also what the hunting family told me - shoot the animal clean and kill quickly. If not, it's your responsibility to follow and kill it and stop the suffering, even if it means 20 miles and you're "tired".

Granted, we can also take the moral vegetarian angle and say that all killing is wrong. I don't agree with it, but I can understand the idea.

So, for the meat eater (at least, the non-hypocritical meat-eaters), setting the animal on fire is cruel. Snapping it's neck or cutting off the head or shooting it through the heart are not.

[Guaranteed]

5. Right, it just depends on how you kill them. nt

[democrat in Tallahassee]

7. did your rabbits come from a pet store? Sorry this is just sick

Domesticated rabbits are pets and very different from wild rabbits; it's not like going out and shooting a wild rabbit (which I am also against but kinda understand). I have a pet bunny and I think that to go to a pet store and buy a rabbit and guinea pig and skin them and cook them for a class is barbaric. And no, I don't eat meat.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Why is it any more barbaric than hunting your own? Or killing one

that you raised? Lots of people raise rabbits for the meat and for the fur. Same thing as a pet store rabbit.

I can understand if you find it barbaric to do this to any animal, but to think it's more barbaric because it has the emotionally loaded term "pet store" in front of it, as opposed to "wild" or "farm raised", I don't get. To me, it seems inconsistent.

I've had cousins who raised animals - rabbits, pigs, cows, etc. - and considered them pets, even gave them all names, but eventually had to kill them, since they were being raised for food.

Pet Stores = farms. That's all.

Unless I'm missing something.

[Deja Q]

3. Holy hasenpfeffer!

:9

[IronLionZion]

6. So?

what's the problem here? People eat meat all the time. It would be wrong to kill the guinea pigs for fun and not eat it, or to kill it in a slow an painful way.

Some people think letting kids have pets is animal cruelty.