I'm sorry but I'm outraged at people who poison animals. Absolutely dosgusting because more often that, that animals goes through hell before it dies. Here, they have been poisoning cata with antifreee which I've been told explodes their insides. I get that cats can annoy the helm out of people. My cat annoys me most of the time with her meowing, denandings, doing her business if I've forgotten to leave the window open for her at night but so what? I wouldn't hurt the lottle thing. She may find me annoying the way I sometimes forget the leave the winfow open for her so she can relieve herself, sleep for long hours (during withdrawals or stim comfowns so not always able to give her food n drink when she wants it n the way I'm ungreatful that she's brought me a "gifyt," merely chucking it in the bin n "don't ye knpw I worked hard chasing that rat, chewing it n bringing its remains to you mske your day." :D
The point is just who the hell are we to get annoyed at animals for making natual siunds n feel that we've the right to hurt that animal in order to get them to stop. Would anyone do this to a screaming baby that cries non-stop for the first two years of his / her life? It does happen. Why not smother them n be done? Because there'd be outcdy n rightly so. We'd be hounded as child-killers, murderes, evil scum etc etc etc. But why should there be more opposed reavtion to annnoying bany than to those pestly cats who urinate on my law each morning, those foxes are always after the chickens smelky rogues lets get some dogs to torture them by tearing them to shreds n enjoy it at the same time "you see we call this a sport." We're such an arragont n selfish spevies at tines that it almost has me feeling ashamed to be human with some of the acts we perform (or allow others to perform) n justify our reasons for doing so.
The dogs next door drive me absolutely craxy with their barking but I would not consider hurting them in any way n if I knew that someone else was going to hurt them but I'd do something about it as I'd feel that I had a responsibility in keeping those dogs safe by knowing that there was threat to their life. Looking bsck at that annoying crying bany again, s/he probably is not enjoying this never-ending activity n more often than not, are probably exhausted. There may have coluc or easily have colic (trapped wind). Imagine whay having trapped wind is like, most of the time we can moan or grumble n whine on n grumble some more. The poor baby can't sau what's wrong they can't even say "Mam, I've a tummy-ache n it hurts" all they're able to do to try n get their caters to understand is to make the only sound they know---cry. Often the caree will try feeding which is going to make baby feel worse, changing etc etc. Even winding doesn't necessarily work if a child suffers from colic.
OK you're probably thinking "why is she banging on about a crying baby who is probably suffering from colic?" Well lets look back to that annoying dog who continuously barked non-stop n caused annoyance. What was the dog's environment like? Was s/he exercised often? Was s/he getting much arrention? Was s/he fed giving sufficient food or drink? Was s/he suffering from any illness / disability? Was s/he being abused or mistreated in amy way? Was s/he frightened? Would it not have been possible to have done a little investigating of your n found other ways of ceasing the annoying barbing than resulting to poisoning the poor thing? Was the dog aware of your irritation? Probably not. Was the dog aware that by constantly bark, s/he would be annoying anyone? Probably not. Was the dog more likely using the only soumd he knew s/he could use, bark, as a way of trying to communivate to someone, anylne, that there was an issue? Likely. There is never any excuse gor poisoning an animal. Even those who are vicious. Because, more often than not, vicious animals have been mistreated n are either; doing the only thing they know, are frightened or are lashing out due to hurt/upset/anger. Foreigner, I have a lot of respect for you on this site n find your posts intelligent n thought-provking, but in this instance, with the dog I feel you're just as responsible because you knew what they were going to do n allowed ut "because the dogs annoyed you" n no one helped your case - they also failed that poir dog too.
It angers me how we, human beings, feel that we've the right to feel annoyed at animals (myself included here) for doing what is natural to them. We are the ones living in a changed environment that we have created over centuries n expect animals to adopt to our desires, our needs n expectations. How arragont n selfish are we? We have changed so much in the world due to the imtelligence of humans, yet of basic things such as animal-commincation we are still very clueless n backward. We've still a lot to learn.
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