Dogsey

Children under the age of ten are not considered to be legally responsible for their actions. And normally their parents cannot be held responsible either.

I know that I frequently post links to the Mail Online but usually only after I have checked them elsewhere, because the Mail has a habit of over exaggeration.

Regarding a cat being "fed" to dogs, no healthy adult cat would just sit and let dogs kill it.

My beloved and absolutely harmless Pereg recently killed a tiny kitten which someone had dumped outside my door. The kitten was so young it could hardly stand.

And my dog killed it. And then ate it.

But I did not go running to the Daily Mail. I just could not look at my beloved dog for most of that day.

I'm not going to follow the link, partly because I don't want to read the details and partly because the DM is well-known for stretching the truth purely to sell newspapers.

I'm not saying there is no truth in the article but I would really prefer not to know about it. I don't read any newspapers for this reason. On another social site, I 'unfriend' posters who keep presenting awful pictures and articles about animal suffering.

I haven't looked at the link either, I prefer not read the description true or not..

One think for sure, one of the most important things you can teach a child is to have empathy for other living creatures.
Many adults who commit horrific crimes are found never to have been taught empathy or to have experienced it themselves.

I saw it on another site via the Daily Mail
Absolutely abhorent. God help us all if thats the future generation & what they can do with seemongly no remorse at 6

Slightly different scenario - you didnt stand beside your dog encouraging & baiting it to kill the kitten

That kitten could hardly stand. It was deliberately dumped/put/thrown - and whoever did it knocked on my door and ran off, knowing that Pereg would get to it once the door was open.

And there was nothing I could do to stop it.

The kitten would have died in any case. It was a feral kitten far too young to survive, so yes, my beloved Pereg probably did it a favour by killing it in seconds.

I forgave her for that, but I still have problems in accepting what she then did.

Exactly. Completely different.

My dogs have caught rabbits before, including very young baby bunnies. But all have been accidents, as was Pereg killing that kitten Malka.

This, according to a witness, was young children "feeding" a cat to two on lead dogs. I'm sure we can gather that "feeding" is probably meant as attacking/mauling. The cat died from it's injuries.

Contacted anonymously apparently then? Because they are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. If someone SAW this - they are a witness to it.

One thing is true the cat was badly injured and is now dead. I doubt they would have found a 'random cat' injured and dying in the very area where they got the report about it by coincidence.

Sounds like perhaps they had hold of the cat and where 'shoving' it at the dogs.

But as for whoever called it in not helping them further I could only speculate (something the DM specialises in!) that it could have been a parent of one of the boys (didn't want the boy in trouble but hoped the cat would be saved?) or might have been someone who is a neighbour of the parents of the boys or one of them and who is afraid of repercussions?

Whatever - it is sickening to think of and the poor cat is out of its misery now.