In The Arms of an Angel

As a passionate animal lover, especially dogs, when this commercial comes on I will just start to tear up and cannot watch.

This commercial is for the SPCA End Animal Cruelty campaign.  Seeing the photos and clips of the once abused dogs rescued and living in such small quarters at the pound just breaks my heart and I’m sure it does for most other viewers.  Even though the photos and video clips are very explicit, they show the truth and don’t sugar coat anything.  The music in the background with the song “Angel” just ties the whole commercial together with its very soft beat. 

While I was youtube-ing this clip, a suggested video on the side came up for “Kitten Burned Alive.”  The video was just someone’s response to a previously posted video so I decided to search into it to see what it was all about.  All the news reports and interviews were not on YouTube so I had to Google the article myself.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/07/15/2009-07-15_cheyenne_cherry_taunts_animal_activists_after_getting_plea_deal_killing_kitten_i.html

This was about a girl, Cheyenne Cherry, who as a practical joke broke into her ex-roommates apartment, trashed it, and then put her young kitten in the oven to burn to death.  The reason why she claims to have fled the scene so quickly was only because she didn’t like hearing the sounds of the cat scratching to get out, for help.  This just disgusts me.  How could anyone throw a living creature into a stove and let it burn to death?  The thing that makes me most teary-eyed out of this whole sickening situation was her hearing the scratches for the little kitten to get her out and she did nothing about it.  How could someone kill a living creature, a pet somebody loved and looked after, even listening to it plea for help from the oven, just as a joke?  Cheyenne Cherry just repulses me and it sickens me that anyone could ever think to do that to a young creature just for a joke.