Posts Tagged ‘animals’

Violence against wildlife should not be tolerated. Period.  In just the last 2 days we witnessed 2 separate incidents at Devil’s Lake State Park where children were attacking wildlife.  In one indecent a pre-teen boy in the south shore beach area of the park found a toad in about an inch of water and began violently kicking at it for fun, while his parents looked on in oblivion.  Of course we stepped in and the mother finally told the child to leave it be. Yesterday we came across a snake that had been just killed on the north shore of the lake.  In this case a school group chaperon told us that one of the children in her group saw the snake swimming in the water, grabbed it by the tail, and then began to violently swing it against a wall, smashing it’s head until it was dead.   What’s going on with these kids? Read the rest of this entry »