Idaho teacher who fed puppy to snapping turtle acquitted of animal cruelty

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/05/idaho-teacher-fed-puppy-snapping-turtle-not-guilty-animal-cruelty/2490943002/

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I probably would have voted guilty if I were on the jury.

What about if you were on the jury? How would you have voted?

[Ye We Can]

Reading the article makes it clear the puppy was dying and the teacher wished to both put it down and feed his reptile, it's weird but I see no reason to charge the guy with a crime

[NewYorkExpress]

Reading the article makes it clear the puppy was dying and the teacher wished to both put it down and feed his reptile, it's weird but I see no reason to charge the guy with a crime

There are far more humane ways of putting a sick animal down than feeding it to another animal while it is still alive.

[Badger]

One of my closest friends in college said his dying rat to a friend's snake. He loved the rat and thought it was a circle of nature. I didn't like it, but I'm not sure I can fault it.

[Ye We Can]

Reading the article makes it clear the puppy was dying and the teacher wished to both put it down and feed his reptile, it's weird but I see no reason to charge the guy with a crime

There are far more humane ways of putting a sick animal down than feeding it to another animal while it is still alive.

It's a puppy, not a person, and as a pet owner myself a dying animal is an unfortunate and sad experience but quite frankly if it's going to die using it as a food source for another animal is both useful and natural.

Like Badger said it's kinda weird and I myself probably wouldn't be able to do it, but I can see the logic in it.

[MasterJedi]

Reading the article makes it clear the puppy was dying and the teacher wished to both put it down and feed his reptile, it's weird but I see no reason to charge the guy with a crime

There are far more humane ways of putting a sick animal down than feeding it to another animal while it is still alive.

It's a puppy, not a person, and as a pet owner myself a dying animal is an unfortunate and sad experience but quite frankly if it's going to die using it as a food source for another animal is both useful and natural.

Like Badger said it's kinda weird and I myself probably wouldn't be able to do it, but I can see the logic in it.

Dogs are not the normal food source for a snapping turtle. Feeding it to a snapping turtle is also not a humane death for a sick and dying dog. Method of death if it were to happen naturally would be to clamp the dog and drag it underwater until it drowns and then eat it, that would be like shooting a terminally ill person and letting them bleed out.

Echoes that most fish keepers are generally against live feeding of other fish as well.

[Ban my account ffs!]

The very first commandment of the Bible was kill your food before you eat it.  I believe that goes for feeding other animals too.  He should’ve been fined and sentenced to community service cleaning the cages at the local humane society (under close supervision of course)

[Lechasseur]

Frankly I don't know how this guy wasn't convicted.

[Dr. MB]

This is the same town where Napoleon Dynamite was filmed. Weird stuff.

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

Reading the article makes it clear the puppy was dying and the teacher wished to both put it down and feed his reptile, it's weird but I see no reason to charge the guy with a crime

There are far more humane ways of putting a sick animal down than feeding it to another animal while it is still alive.

It's a puppy, not a person, and as a pet owner myself a dying animal is an unfortunate and sad experience but quite frankly if it's going to die using it as a food source for another animal is both useful and natural.

Like Badger said it's kinda weird and I myself probably wouldn't be able to do it, but I can see the logic in it.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

One of my closest friends in college said his dying rat to a friend's snake. He loved the rat and thought it was a circle of nature. I didn't like it, but I'm not sure I can fault it.

I think that's actually a very healthy worldview.

[fhtagn]

Frankly I don't know how this guy wasn't convicted.

[Deleted User #4049]

Reading the article makes it clear the puppy was dying and the teacher wished to both put it down and feed his reptile, it's weird but I see no reason to charge the guy with a crime

There are far more humane ways of putting a sick animal down than feeding it to another animal while it is still alive.

It's a puppy, not a person, and as a pet owner myself a dying animal is an unfortunate and sad experience but quite frankly if it's going to die using it as a food source for another animal is both useful and natural.

Like Badger said it's kinda weird and I myself probably wouldn't be able to do it, but I can see the logic in it.

[Badger]

Frankly I don't know how this guy wasn't convicted.

One word. Idaho. The Alaska of the lower 48.

[Cokeland Saxton]

Innocent. One, it's an animal, not a person and two, it was dying anyway.