Puerto Rico, one day you will also be a nation who will have to answer to The One and Only. You best start now to get right with all of G-d’s creations. Via FoxNews:
News that live animals had been thrown to their deaths from a bridge reached the public last month when Animal Control Solutions, a government contractor, was accused of inhumanely killing some 80 dogs and cats seized from three housing projects in the town of Barceloneta. A half dozen survived the fall of at least 50 feet.
The AP probe, which included visits to two sites where animals were slaughtered, found the inhumane killings were far more extensive than that one incident. The AP saw and was told about a scale and brutality far beyond even what animal welfare activists suspected, stretching over the last eight years.
A $22.5 million lawsuit against Animal Control Solutions and city officials – including those who helped round up the animals – was filed on behalf of 16 Barceloneta families whose dogs or cats were seized under rules prohibiting pets at the city projects. The animals’ deaths show “a cold and depraved heart and has stirred public outrage around the whole world,” the lawsuit says.
The pet disposal scandal adds to Puerto Rico’s poor reputation for treatment of animals. Cockfighting is legal, with matches shown on television. One of the island’s beaches is known as Dead Dog Beach – a place where teenagers drive over live puppies sealed in bags or cruelly kill them with machetes and arrows, according to animal welfare groups that photographed the atrocities.