Police Shot A Senior Arthritic Dog

I read a very sad animal story yet again this morning. This time it is about a senior dog Gloria in California. She was eleven years old and arthritic. The owner were out and the police came to check on the burglar alarm, perhaps it went on or something. Perhaps Gloria was protecting the house and the officials shot her down. They left a note then on the door, that in order to respond to a burglar alarm, their dog behaved in a threatening way and so in the line of duty they shot her down.

Gloria was a loving dog, loved by everyone. It was a sad and tragic end. Painful. The owners treated her like a family member indeed. And they are waiting for a complete report on what exactly happened.

For the future, they are trying to train officers in the Oakland Police department how to avoid such incidents and giving them animal sensitivity training. This is not the first incident. Eight such incidents have taken place and so it is time the officers are given serious training to handle things in a better way. Through this training they would understand the behavior of the animal through its body language.

You can also read the full story here:

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/senior-arthritic-labrador-shot-dead-by-police.html

Ugly as hell

Just now I read this report about a murder of a 4 year old girl who had been gang-raped by 2 policemen. Although they dumped her body but right now they are behind the bars. As one of the cousins of the little girl saw these 2 policemen giving her toffees & luring her to come along with them. People wanted to burn them alive but the area police intervened.

This is nothing new. Newspapers cover such stories almost every day. In fact these crimes are even underreported as most people still believe that such gruesome crimes against children cannot happen in this country. I don’t know how long would it take to wake up stupid people. I have also met educated illiterates who say that women who are being raped are not nice women to begin with & sexual harassment is something that is being done only by the lower classes.

Also while writing stuff on gang-rape, incest & harassment, I have observed that some people go off their heads. Maybe they can’t face their own complexes & fears, & thereby they think it’s okay to bother the writer. We may not have any solution but it doesn’t mean we should ignore as to what is happening in our society.

Few years ago, there was this man Javed Iqbal who sexually abused & murdered hundreds of kids & neither the police nor the media knew about him or the missing kids till he handed himself over to the police. Later he committed suicide in jail but many believe that that too was murder. This man used to dissolve the bodies of kids in acid & when the judge said that he ought to be punished in the same manner, human rights activists had problems.

Things haven’t changed much over the years.