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Teacher in Preston, Idaho, feeds puppy to turtle, and the nation freaks out. But not Preston, Idaho

In a small town, death and killing are often visible parts of life, especially for farm kids. They might hunt deer. Their families might breed cattle for slaughter.
But feeding an ailing puppy to a snapping turtle?

On March 7, according to local news accounts, a junior high teacher in Preston, Idaho, did just that in front of several students at his school. Details about the incident remain fuzzy, as officials have declined to talk about it. But the outrage that followed was predictable.

A local animal rights activist, Jill Parrish, called it "a cut-and-dried case of animal cruelty" and filed a complaint to the sheriff's department, which launched an investigation.

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As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 2,500 people had signed a petition to Preston's school board expressing their support for the teacher, Robert Crosland. . . . "Do we really live such a sheltered life that it destroys our faith in humanity to see an animal eat another animal?" one wrote. "This happens all over the world folks. Animals eat each other. Humans do it to. We just typically pay someone to do the dirty work for us."

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The law does not appear to be on Crosland's side. Idaho's statutes on animal abuse forbid the "intentional and malicious" infliction of death on animals and "needless suffering" and "unnecessary cruelty." Euthanasia is required to be "humane."

"I don't see any exemptions under our state's animal cruelty codes to indicate that it was OK for a person to kill a puppy by allowing another animal to eat it," said Jeff Rosenthal, a veterinarian and the chief executive of the Idaho Humane Society. "I don't think it was necessary to teach anything to these children that was gained by feeding a live puppy to a turtle. We don't teach hypothermia in physiology class by putting kittens in a freezer."

Saintman2884

We also dont test the effects of altitude sickness in elevation chambers on prison inmates in experiments similar to what the Nazis did to Jewish concentration camp victims or captured Soviet POWS. But, I digress. As disgusting and unethical as this teachers actions were, our government has done much worse on a much larger scale in more insidious ways. Google the late 1940s Minnesota Starvation experiments or MK-Ultra CIA divison- LSD truth serum mind experimentation at colleges, prisons where Whitey Bulger was a willing participant, and the honorable Harvard fear and obedience experiments done a very young and impressionable Ted Kazinski.

crosswatt

I have noticed in my life that our collective outrage at instances of cruelty is directly proportionate to how cute the animal happens to be. And a puppy is ground zero for inducing cuddles and baby talk. This teacher is toast....

MrVoodoo

... but if he fed a cricket to a lizard

a mouse to a snake

a rat to a cat

grubs to a bird

... it wouldn't have been an issue

billinms

A local pet store used to have one of those really huge pythons and would feed it live bunnies. They fed it after hours and occasionally would let a few customers stay and watch.

brandon8283

... but if he fed a cricket to a lizard
a mouse to a snake

a rat to a cat

grubs to a bird

... it wouldn't have been an issue

How about if he had fed a baby to a lion?

A dog is not natural prey for a snapping turtle and the odds of a snapping turtle eating a domesticated dog in the wild are probably nil.

Also, there's this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-people-too.html

brandon8283

A local pet store used to have one of those really huge pythons and would feed it live bunnies. They fed it after hours and occasionally would let a few customers stay and watch.

Not the same thing. Dogs are not part of a typical snapping turtle's diet in any way.

RazorSaint

... but if he fed a cricket to a lizard
a mouse to a snake

a rat to a cat

grubs to a bird

... it wouldn't have been an issue

Or he could have swabbed a bacterium with alcohol. No difference in your eyes right?

Saint_Ward

it's the circle of life

JimEverett

We also dont test the effects of altitude sickness in elevation chambers on prison inmates in experiments similar to what the Nazis did to Jewish concentration camp victims or captured Soviet POWS. But, I digress. As disgusting and unethical as this teachers actions were, our government has done much worse on a much larger scale in more insidious ways. Google the late 1940s Minnesota Starvation experiments or MK-Ultra CIA divison- LSD truth serum mind experimentation at colleges, prisons where Whitey Bulger was a willing participant, and the honorable Harvard fear and obedience experiments done a very young and impressionable Ted Kazinski.

good to see you posting more.

MrVoodoo

How about if he had fed a baby to a lion?
A dog is not natural prey for a snapping turtle and the odds of a snapping turtle eating a domesticated dog in the wild are probably nil.

Also, there's this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-people-too.html

have you read into this particular instance?

This was a puppy abandoned by its mother along with a few others. The others died and he was trying to nurse this puppy back to health. The puppy refused to eat and would not survive. He drowned the puppy and then fed it to the snapping turtle. To say that it is not natural prey for a snapping turtle would be incorrect - had that snapping turtle come upon the puppy in the wild it would have eaten it.

I don't necessarily agree with drowning the pup, but it wasn't going to survive and rather than euthanize the animal - rendering it inedible and only capable of rotting in the ground or being cremated - he chose to drown and circle of life it. From the positive comments on the teacher in the articles, I'd assume that had that puppy eaten and been able to turn around into a healthy pup - he would have continued nursing it until it was adoptable.

dtc

I have noticed in my life that our collective outrage at instances of cruelty is directly proportionate to how cute the animal happens to be. And a puppy is ground zero for inducing cuddles and baby talk. This teacher is toast....

Feed a cute little mouse to a snake and nobody cares.

brandon8283

have you read into this particular instance?
This was a puppy abandoned by its mother along with a few others. The others died and he was trying to nurse this puppy back to health. The puppy refused to eat and would not survive. He drowned the puppy and then fed it to the snapping turtle. To say that it is not natural prey for a snapping turtle would be incorrect - had that snapping turtle come upon the puppy in the wild it would have eaten it.

I don't necessarily agree with drowning the pup, but it wasn't going to survive and rather than euthanize the animal - rendering it inedible and only capable of rotting in the ground or being cremated - he chose to drown and circle of life it. From the positive comments on the teacher in the articles, I'd assume that had that puppy eaten and been able to turn around into a healthy pup - he would have continued nursing it until it was adoptable.

Yea. Drowning it makes it worse.

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billinms

Not the same thing. Dogs are not part of a typical snapping turtle's diet in any way.

I didn't say it was the same thing, but it is a similar thing, feeding a small cute animal to a larger, less cute animal.

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