I am not going to apologize for saying that.
‘Loving’ Dog Named Buddy Is on the Road to Recovery After Being Intentionally Set on Fire
Buddy the dog is on the road to recovery.
Last month, a 12-year-old child intentionally set the stray Labrador retriever mix on fire. Buddy is currently being treated at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University for severe burns sustained during the incident.
“He’s a loving, forgiving dog,” Sandy Williams, shelter director of the Tunica Humane Society, told the Clarion Ledger. “I don’t know how he’s come through this and kept his tender heart, but he has. He’s going to make somebody an exceptional dog.”
According to multiple reports, Buddy was found in Mississippi’s East Tate County on April 22 with an extension cord twisted around his neck and his face set on fire.
According to the authorities, after a reward of over $10,000 for information about the incident was offered, a 12-year-old child confessed to setting Buddy on fire. Under state law, the child cannot be criminally charged for the abuse because of their age, Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance told WMC5.
I’m glad the dog is recovering.
The boy will never recover. The boy will never be rehabilitated. Society should deal with him now and throw him down a mine shaft, or into a dry oil well, or some other deep dark hole from which there is no escape.
You can call me a heartless monster, I don’t give a shit.
Many years ago, in my early teens, I was stalked – hunted is probably the better word – by a classmate who was a sociopath. A true, bad seed, child sociopath.
The adults who saw the way he treated me and picked on me and behaved, in general, tried to give him every chance. They kept saying “we should work out our differences.” Then he got into enough trouble that he was taken out of my school and sent to a different school where he murdered another classmate.
I never understood how adults could see what he was doing and not understand that there was no soul in that child. He was empty of empathy. He enjoyed hurting people.
This also explains some of my beliefs and idiosyncrasies. I have been both fascinated and terrified of sociopaths since then. It is part of my absolutism on the principle of self-defense. I can spot these people and my feeling is they should be done away with in a very succinct manner.
Any 12-year-old boy who sets a loving dog on fire because he wants to is not going to turn into a healthy member of society. That is a sociopath, pure and simple. The very best thing for society to do is to put this boy someplace where he will never interact with humanity ever again before he can hurt another living thing. An old oil well a few thousand feet deep would be perfect.
It is well recognized that cruelty to animals as a child is an indicator of a future serial killer.
When I was in high school, a friend and I went fishing at a local large pond. As we walked around the shore to get to a good spot, we came upon two 12 year old boys, a burning campfire, and a large glass jar. The glass jar was full of live frogs, and these two idiots were dancing around the fire squealing with laughter as they threw handfuls of frogs onto the fire. We were so shocked by the scene we just kept going and picked up the pace. In hindsight, we should have stopped, beaten them to a pulp, dumped out the remaining frogs, and filled the jar with water to put out the fire. But then, that’s me thinking as an adult now.
With a little mk ultra, I’m sure he’ll be a usefull tool.
For people who think that sociopaths are a “product of society”, I recommend Martha Stout’s book “The Sociopath Next Door ”
4% of humans are born that way. They make life miserable for the rest of us.
Thank The Lord that they are not all serial killers — but all serial killers are sociopaths.
There’s a Christian apologist on Youtube, David Wood, he is a sociopath. Some of his videos are fascinating, in particular the one about how he became a Christian, and there was another about what life is like as a sociopath with a wife and children. He’s not capable of feeling empathy like most people, it’s a very weird thought. He’s literally never felt bad for doing anything to anyone, ever. I have a hard time wrapping my head around what that must be like. I don’t envy people like that at all.
The kid is a demon and should be dealt with as such. His parents should pay every nickel for that dog’s treatment. It’s way past time to hold parents accountable.
And then next time a kid shows these tendencies, the parents will send his ass to a booby hatch. This is the part of the law that badly needs reform.
I have three dogs. They are about as close to unconditional love as you can get in this world. We don’t deserve them.
The relation between humanity and dogs is amazing. Archaeologists keep finding earlier and earlier examples of dogs — as opposed to wolves. I think our common history has been pushed back to 33,000 years now.
I saw an interesting video the other day that connected Native American and classical European myths — both have dogs that guard the afterlife/underworld. And both cultures happen to have a common origin on the steppes of Asia, in one of the spots were dogs were first domesticated.
“Any 12-year-old boy who sets a loving dog on fire because he wants to is not going to turn into a healthy member of society.”
This event, I am sure will be sealed away because of his age. And, he will grow up, maybe marry, whatever, and everyone will be shocked, SHOCKED I say! to find out he is a murderer, or he beats his wife and kids, or deals drugs to children, whatever.
I agree totally. First of all, some crimes are horrible enough that age is no excuse. A 12 year old knows better. Or should. Secondly, this is not a prank gone wrong. Or shoplifting, or some other minor crime. This is a human being deliberately and knowingly torturing a dog, when they are well past the age where they know this behavior is evil.
No counseling, no rehab, no drugs will cure this. This child is not, and will never be a useful member of society.
“Official” records might be sealed, but the “institutional memory” of those officers now working (and folk that they will train) will last. So long as the family remains in the same area, the kid will be known and will fall under “the usual suspects” when something bad happens.
Set him on fire. The only thing a bully understands is an ass kicking. Its the liberal mind esp if the victim is not an annointed person of the flavor of the week. Its the victims fault. And when the victim has had enough then HE is blamed. Buy some land and a backhoe….
Roy, Unofficial records do not work when the psycho moves three states away and changes his name.
Why do I think he will be a Childrens Services Bureaucrat or Law Enforcement Officer when he grows up?