"Midland police say their report shows it was a dog that caused the injuries but Evans said that is unlikely.

"Male dogs and female dogs are going to consent there is no way that a Male dog would be able to rape a female dog," Evans said."

This vet is a moron. Not only can dogs rape each other, a large male can easily injure a smaller dog.

"It just clicked in my head that there has to be something we can do about it, there has to be someway to reach out to lawmakers to have laws changed," Allison said.

Animal cruelty is illegal, but the social media page is calling for bestiality laws and for a harsher punishment.

It really creeps me out how these people time and time again get so much support without ever giving any reasonable explanation for why the law must be changed. If a human did this, then how is it not animal cruelty, which is illegal?

I get the feeling these people do this kind of activism because they want to be outraged about something and nothing else.

There was this case of obvious animal cruelty with a dog that was later renamed to "Rose": http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20140919/NEWS/140919330. And these people somehow believed they needed to make a petition and make a demonstration with signs and everything and created a facebook page named "Justice for Rose": http://www.thepetitionsite.com/809/261/307/justice-for-rose/ (And read to the end of the petition: "some of you missed that message. Not only did you contact the Judge, you sent her hate mail. I am not only disappointed, but I am embarrassed that we are stooping to this level."). As if any of this was necessary to convict someone of animal cruelty who committed animal cruelty...

Or the case of "Charity": http://www.examiner.com/article/sexually-abused-puppies-inspire-fight-for-charity-s-law. I believe the only reason the perpetrator was not convicted of animal cruelty was, because it was a 13 year old boy who lived in an abusive (I believe) home:

Performing her own inquiry into the alleged abuse, McDuffie found a witness who told her she saw a neighbor’s 13 year old son “having sex” with the puppies. The witness will not come forward to testify for fear of reprisal. The boy’s father apparently is a well known dog fighter and breeder of fight dogs in the area. McDuffie also told me that this boy’s father was recently arrested and jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail and all of his children are under protective services with the state of North Carolina.

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She believes the boy is also a victim of being born into a household and culture where dog fighting and the resultant violence is an accepted standard. She is also pragmatic enough to realize that putting any effort into bringing him to justice will do nothing for all the future animals who may become subjected to similar abuse.

http://www.care2.com/causes/move-for-anti-bestiality-laws-in-u-s-following-sad-story.html

Yet people demand "Charity's law" with a petition where they just assert there is "ambiguity" or whatever: Technically the act of bestiality could be construed to fall under some animal cruelty statutes as is but there should be uniform and stringent laws that address bestiality directly so ambiguity about this act does not exist, and, obviously, another petition. Also, what mindless activism would be complete without a facebook page?

What I find so creepy is that none of the thousands and thousands of supporters of these campaigns find it weird that none of it makes any sense. With the right motivation, what other laws would these people support?

but back to this article here.

"I have two little girls and my thought are, if he is doing this to this animal could a child be next?" Allison said.

How is a law against "bestiality" supposed to help keep her children safe? As has been said, animal cruelty is already illegal...

"Human to animal contact is not rape it would be bestiality and it's not common with humans to dogs or cats it is more common in livestock or larger animals," Evans said.

O rly? Seems like our "Veterinary Practitioner" is a real expert here.

"Male dogs and female dogs are going to consent there is no way that a Male dog would be able to rape a female dog," Evans said.

Nuh-uh, dog's can't "consent"!

Or so I was told?

What does that even mean, "Male dogs and female dogs are going to consent"? Is she trying to say that every time a male dog tries to have sex with a female dog, the female dog will be okay with that? Or what?

And in the video, is it just me, or is she smiling very creepily when she says that?

"In Muffin's case, a different vet decided it was best to have her be put down."

:/ I see it over and over again, lovers murdered for no reason.

A real mess of idiocy... paraphrased... "It's already illegal but we should make it super double illegal" "Think of the children" "Human to animal contact is not rape..." (Well, at least the vet had a good head on his shoulders, of course, he is completely wrong on the stats and lacking any knowledge of zoophilia or its prevalence.) "Male and female dogs consent!" (Wow, two for two Mr. Vet) "No dog could rape another dog, even though the report from the witness says so and it has been well documented to happen" (well, 2 out of three ain't bad Mr Vet. ) "Didn't actually happen but it might!"

The facebook page has under 900 likes so far. Considering the subject I am surprised at how poorly it is doing. I mean, everyone want to hurt the bad guy, right?