Animal-Cruelty Syndrome

3 weredogs and 1 werewolf have contact me in the last 2 days about this article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13dogfighting-t.html?ref=magazine

This issue has tormented dogs, including weredogs, and many other species, for a long time. How can mankind, we have asked oursleves, and each other, be so cruel, and yet so kind?

Most dogs just turned from the issue, shook their heads, and said, "That is man. C'est la vie."

But werefolk are finding hope in this trend to connect animal cruelty and human cruelty, to show that cruel people are cruel, to all, that violence is violence. The problem is that man, and dog, and wolf and all species, have capacity for violence, It is essential to survival. But none have as strong and twisted a tendency as man. Cats sometimes play with their prey before they kill it. But they do not put heads on pikes or light 'em up to watch them burn.