What could you do if you see a mistreated animal during a run??

Sniff wrote:To conclude, this is not a trolling attempt, nor is it about the world champs

Then it does not belong on this message board.

If you think it's serious, remember the address and call the cops when you get home.

Sniff wrote:

I'm very curious about this. I just literally came back in from a 9-10 miler, and when I was about 2miles away from home, I saw two kids playing these two dogs, they were those little tiny, fluffy type dogs (I don't know what they're called, but they look like the dog on the left of this picture

http://tinyurl.com/mz2rrb

)...

Anyway, one of the kids was throwing the smaller of the two dogs onto the second kid... like, throwing it from a height, causing it to land on its back. They could have just been having a bit of fun, and they may not have been mistreating it intentionally, but it got me thinking about the whole issue...

So you witnessed this and kept going? You are either a troll or a heartless piece of crap. Not only should you have confronted the kids, but you should have take a few extra minutes to seek out their parents.

Those little twirps are then next generation's Jeffrey Dahmers.

80s Guy wrote:

So you witnessed this and kept going? You are either a troll or a heartless piece of crap. Not only should you have confronted the kids, but you should have take a few extra minutes to seek out their parents.

Those little twirps are then next generation's Jeffrey Dahmers.

I agree. They're stupid kids. You should have stopped just long enough to tell them they're hurting the dog and tell them animal control will take their pet away if they continue to mistreat it. The kids will either stop it or they'll badmouth you, at which point when you get home you call the humane society to have someone come out there. No need to seek out the parents; they probably don't care anyway.

Yeah but thats takes me back to the original point.

How? What would I do? The kids were, for that matter, close to a residential place, so people would have hopefully copped on and acted on behalf of me. Selfish i know. Sorry guys

I'd ask them to join my underground dog fighting ring.

Clearly you should have asked the kids if they would like to be tossed like that, then done it before they responded.

Sprint by and just hold out your fist so that it hits the kid in the forehead.

whoaminot wrote:

Clearly you should have asked the kids if they would like to be tossed like that, then done it before they responded.

That would work. I was running by a filthy lake at the time.

I have done it many times in the course of my life. You call authorities immediately. If it is urgent and a case where I can do something I will do it myself.