California’s Homeless Addicts Abusing Innocent Dogs
All eyes were on the election results from California on Tuesday. Two notable Republicans have advanced from the jungle primary to be on the November ballot. California’s jungle primary means all candidates, regardless of political affiliation, run on one ballot. The two top vote getters advance to the general election in November, even if they are from the same party.
Two Republicans, Steve Hilton, running for Governor, and Spencer Pratt, seeking the position of Mayor of Los Angeles, against all odds in a one-party system, won enough votes for November’s election. These two candidates share a similar message about California’s demise under Democratic rule.
One of the issues Hilton and Pratt focused on is the problem of homelessness and drug addiction in the state’s major cities. The streets of these previously prestigious cities are riddled with shanty towns, human feces, and used hypodermic needles. Evidently, enough of the voters agreed with the message that the Democratic position of allowing the addicted homeless to sully the city has gone too far.
When the campaigns shed the spotlight on the homeless problem, a new and disturbing fact about the lifestyle surfaced. Photos and videos have well documented just how bad the homeless and drug problem is. What the images do not tell you is the practice of abusing innocent dogs to continue the self-destructive behavior.
Some of the addicts have dogs, but where and how they acquired them is unknown. Illegal breeding hasn’t been met with any government intervention. Witnesses have noticed a homeless woman with 11 dogs and cats confined to only four crates. Often, when animal rescuers come across these animals, they have extensive injuries. In another case, a man high on drugs was trying to dissect the leg of a dog with tweezers.
The dogs on Skid Row are being used as a commodity for illegal activities. Joey Tuccio, a volunteer with Starts With One Today, recounted his experience. “Every day we get another call, saying people are trying to sell their dog for drugs, and this dog is dying on the streets.”
More than just selling the dogs, some of the addicts abuse them by using them to test their drugs. Tuccio continues, “vile abusers have tested their drugs on dogs to make sure they’re not laced with deadly fentanyl.”
When California takes the position of letting these poor souls wallow in the hell of drugs and homelessness, it is an affront to their human dignity. What these people need is help, not acquiescence to a liberal and progressive philosophy, allowing them to spiral out of control. One way to do this is to start cleaning up the streets and demand that law enforcement crack down on illegal drugs and those unscrupulous dog breeders out to make a buck.
Clearly, the human dignity aspect isn’t the only fallout of the problem with the homeless. Innocent animals are being abused under the present system, and this fact needs to be brought to light as well.
There is no such thing as compassion when you allow a person to descend into such a life and allow them to abuse dogs. Where are all the bleeding liberals who lectured us about the rights of animals? Or have they turned a blind eye, much as they do when their power is challenged?