An article in today's New York Times delivers some good news, although a bit belatedly for those kittens who were pierced "to give them a 'goth' appearance" and sold over the Internet for $100 per maimed feline.
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a lower court conviction of animal cruelty for a dog groomer, Holly Crawford, who admitted to piercing the kittens without anesthetic. An investigator for PETA, posing as a customer, reported her to the authorities.
The Court's 19 page opinion outlined Crawford's main defense: "that a person of normal intelligence would not know whether piercing a kitten's ears or banding its tail is maiming, mutilating, torturing or disfiguring an animal." Thankfully, the court unanimously disagreed.
On a lighter note... there's still time aplenty to enter our give-a-way to win one of two signed copies of The Bond Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, beautifully written by Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.
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The Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a lower court conviction of animal cruelty for a dog groomer, Holly Crawford, who admitted to piercing the kittens without anesthetic. An investigator for PETA, posing as a customer, reported her to the authorities.
The Court's 19 page opinion outlined Crawford's main defense: "that a person of normal intelligence would not know whether piercing a kitten's ears or banding its tail is maiming, mutilating, torturing or disfiguring an animal." Thankfully, the court unanimously disagreed.
On a lighter note... there's still time aplenty to enter our give-a-way to win one of two signed copies of The Bond Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, beautifully written by Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.
Please remember the few rules for your entry to be considered:
__ You must comment on the blog post below;
__ And be a follower of our blog, and our Facebook and Twitter pages. If you've already entered, please double check that you're faithfully following in all three locations:-) And...if you don't have a Twitter account, just let us know...we'll try to cut you a break-ha!
__ The time for comments ends this evening at 6:00 pm EST, and the winners will be randomly chosen and announced tonight!
Good luck to ya!
