Ambassador of Goodwill for Hunters? Thanks alot..

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(taken from Drudge Report)
Pet store animals cooked in school
Fri Jan 21 2005 08:35:35 ET

A Guinea pig and rabbit purchased from a Geauga County pet store ended up on plates at a Cleveland area high school.

A 16-year-old student skinned and cooked the animals during a living skills class on Wednesday, prompting student and parent complaints to the Thompson Township Police Department and Geauga Humane Society. Officials at both agencies said they are investigating.

Friday editions of the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER detail how the incident may warrant animal cruelty charges.

Geauga Humane Officer Sarah Westman said it's illegal to needlessly kill "companion animals" raised for domestic purposes.

"Something irrational and wrong happened," Westman explained.

Ledgemont Principal Beto Gage acknowledged that "misjudgments" took place but said the boy's actions are far from criminal.

The student - whose name was not released - described what he did in terms of harvesting meat to fix a dish for classmates, Gage said.

The principal described the boy as an active hunter. The Ledgemont district covers the rural communities of Montville and Thompson townships, where killing - and then eating - wild game is fairly common.

The hunt, however, usually doesn't take place at Pet Supplies Plus.

The boy went to the Chardon store and purchased the Guinea pig and rabbit after coming up empty in the great outdoors.

"My skin's crawling over this," said Linda Schempp, a spokeswoman for the pet store chain. "We sell our animals to be family pets - not food."


(Kid was stupid but the reaction is beyond comprehension. What happens when someone buys them to feed to their other pets, snakes etc? Ridiculous.)

[fabsroman]

This kind of thinking is what happens when people have too much time on their hands. Utterly amazing.

[Jabba]

Last time I bought a rabbit, and it was in the country, the lady asked if I wanted a "cute little pettin' rabbit or a big fat eatin' rabbit." I told her a big fat eating rabbit.

It was a pretty good eating rabbit too. But I guess that was OK as it was RAISED for food?

I guess we'd be apalled if we caught a vietnamese kid buying puppies to make chili.

Oh well.

Jabba

[skeet]

D$*N Jabba,

Did them vietnamese eat dog too?? All the other things they ate turned me off'n that SE Asian food anyway. But i didn't know they ate puppies!! Awwww, man...didja haveta say that!! This darn story has gotten way out of hand.. Now they want to lock the kid up for cruelty to animals

[Jabba]

Originally posted by skeet
D$*N Jabba,

Did them vietnamese eat dog too?? All the other things they ate turned me off'n that SE Asian food anyway. But i didn't know they ate puppies!! Awwww, man...didja haveta say that!! This darn story has gotten way out of hand.. Now they want to lock the kid up for cruelty to animals

See THAT is exactly my point. Not that I am trying to defend the people prosecuting the kid. But he bought killed and ate a guinea pig? That's a little weird to me. The rabbit... sure I have no issues with that.

But they eat dogs like crazy in the Phillipeans. They especially like black ones.

Jabba

[Critch]

Little girl walks into a pet store. She looks at the clerk and says, "I want to buy a rabbit." The clerk says, "Do you want a furry brown rabbit or a furry white rabbit?" The little girls says, "I don't care, my python don't give a thit."

[Lilred]

Good Lordy..

I reckon I'm cruel too...I raise em fer lil beagle pups to chase after.
Speakin of animal cruelty..our sales manager got riled up at me 2 weeks ago fer concretin a hole that 2 mice was comin through..like them lil rascals was in it er somthin. He said it was cruel and unusual punishment. I told him it would even more cruel and unusual punishment when we git sued fer havin mice near our eatin area lol..whata goober.
BTW...one of the guys at werk wound up smushin the mouse..not meanin to of course...