A CRUEL ACT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 14

A CRUEL ACT.

' Sir, —I read with the greatest horror of a bnite in Invemvrgill actually skinning a rabbit alive. For this crime, the monster has been fined £5! In my opinion he should have been imprisoned for at least a year, and should have had a flogging every month. I once read of a boy in Finland, who poured boiling water over a poor dog, that had just broken its leg. He was® obliged to wear a board on his back on which his inhumanity was inscribed. A WoMAtf.'

Sir, —We read in your issue of the Btb inst. of a case wherein a farm labourer caught a rabbit, skinned it alive and then released it, was by the S.P.C.A., and as a, result was fined a paltry £5. When shall we hear of cruelty to animals being properly punished ? 1 would suggest in cases of this kind that the offenders bo handed over by the Bench to a few animal lovers, and I am convinced they would make the punishment fit the offence in a very short space of time, and more adequately that any fine could do, F. Scott.

Sir, —It was with disgust I read in Friday's Herald of the light penalty imposed on that "beast in human form" for skinning a rabbit alive, and letting it run back to its hoie to writhe in agony' I consider this in one of th* cruellest acts I have ever heard of, and that miserable penalty is a disgrace to the person who imposed it. Mount Eden. E. M. C. Brown.