[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Here's a case here in NYC where a 17 year-old will spend a year in prison for animal cruelty. People are comparing it to the Vick case, but I'm not really sure why:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c..._kitten_i.html

Probably because Vick has been accused of torturing and killing dogs for the fun of it - hanging them from trees, drowning them, electrocuting them with jumper cables. I don't see how the two are different, really. They're both sociopaths - dangerous people.

It's one thing to set up a dog fighting business (which is bad enough). It's another thing entirely to kill an animal for fun, which we know is a way that serial killers start out. The former is bad judgment, the latter is bad wiring that I believe is not fixable.