"This isn't about respect, it's about mistreatment of a mammal. Humans, dogs, whatevever .. if it has the capacity to feel fear, pain and suffering, it's all the same."

No it is not. A human life is, at least to me, worth far more than the life of an animal.

I am truly at a loss for words.

I know I'm going to get flamed by this but something must be said. I am sickened by the amount of response to this story and almost complete lack of response to stories involving actually human beings. They found a man's body stabbed repeatedly in middle of nowhere in Ephrata (http://www.komonews.com/news/local/38219384.html)and the only response to it is to complain about spelling errors. Then I look at this story and people are calling for these criminals to be killed or tortured?

We seriously have gone through the rabbit's hole. All of you that honor animals above your fellow human beings sicken and disgust me.