Owner roasts family pet in barbecue

[DIN PELENDA]

I'll bring a Labrador!

Come to think of it I must have some relatives I can ask for recipes...

Labrador my not be enough, my wife family is huge(and her ass, after having 5 kids, but I'm just lucky she do not read KB) but I know you got that chubby cat so bring that I would like to try what that taste like
Just for record that Tongan hot dog maker is probably same man that get 1200$ : 15 years on income and is got 10 kids .

[mynameis]

Safe to assume somebody did, how otherwise did both the SPCA and the press become involved. Also safe to assume that if such actions are 'normal' and sold to the public as such we will have incidences of 'pets' being slaughtered in their back yards.

Your very young aren't you mynameis?

Go figure out how the SPCA found out then you can come online and talk.

You must work in HR because all I smell from your posts is bullshit

[boomer]

Seriously tho.. Dog..?!


WHERE ON TEH MENU DOES IT SAY DOG !?

[Pussy]

Seriously tho.. Dog..?!


WHERE ON TEH MENU DOES IT SAY DOG !?

Go to a south east asian restaurant.... it's called "Lah See" on the menu

[mynameis]

Seriously tho.. Dog..?!


WHERE ON TEH MENU DOES IT SAY DOG !?

Time to umu you, you molested nun

[Brian d marge]

A few steps closer to cannibalism.....

I think that's the best way to express it

Stephen

[Max Preload]

It may well be illogical to you to classify a dog as just 'meat' for the vast majority of NZers witnessing the 'murder' of a dog in someones back yard would send some into catonic shock. Kiwi's by and large are socially conditioned to think of dog's as pets, companions, house-gaurds and working animals. they are not, nor have they ever been classified as food.

Killing and eating a dog to many would be considered abnormal and cruel.

Well, not internationally and apparently not even so much locally, if the responses here are anything to go by. Have you considered the possiblity it might just largely concentrated in your perception with no basis in reality...

Many studies in psychology, sociology, and criminology during the last 25 years have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have childhood and adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty. The FBI has recognized the connection since the 1970s, when its analysis of the lives of serial killers suggested that most had killed or tortured animals as children. Other research has shown consistent patterns of animal cruelty among perpetrators of more common forms of violence, including child abuse, spouse abuse, and elder abuse. In fact, the American Psychiatric Association considers animal cruelty one of the diagnostic criteria of conduct disorder."

Exactly what does any of that have to do with this? It's not cruelty - which would have an enjoyment aspect to it - it's killing for food and eating the kill. Just as many animals are. I'm guessing you've never personally witnessed how any of that is done.

[Max Preload]

Labrador my not be enough, my wife family is huge(and her ass, after having 5 kids, but I'm just lucky she do not read KB) but I know you got that chubby cat so bring that I would like to try what that taste like
Just for record that Tongan hot dog maker is probably same man that get 1200$ : 15 years on income and is got 10 kids .

I've got plans for that cat...

[SixPackBack]

Well, not internationally and apparently not even so much locally, if the responses here are anything to go by. Have you considered the possiblity it might just largely concentrated in your perception with no basis in reality...

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You, a couple of shit stirrers and a the pre-pubescent mynameis do not constitute the majority.

[SixPackBack]

Go figure out how the SPCA found out then you can come online and talk.

You must work in HR because all I smell from your posts is bullshit

You're unable or incapable of having a logical conversation without becoming animated [ha a pun]........that would be my observation.

[Max Preload]

You, a couple of shit stirrers and a the pre-pubescent mynameis do not constitute the majority.

Nor does the sum total population of the western world...

[SixPackBack]

Nor does the sum total population of the western world...

Exactly this is the western world.

[ManDownUnder]

People make familial associations with pets (i.e. they see them as part of the family, or part of someone elses family) so to see one killed would be distressing, and to see it cooked, in preparation for eating would well be too much altogether.

That's what this whole story is about. People just can't get their head around the fact it's acceptable to eat dog, horse, cat, guinea pigs and many other things "we" see as pets because they're simply incapable of walking in the shoes of someone beyond our cultural norms.

It's not wrong (assuming it was done humanely, which it was in the case)... just different. It's a shame people can't see through "different", but then (quite honestly) some simple aren't evolved enough to be capable of it.

China, Korea, and I expect a number of other countries not only eat dog - they farm it.

And to cap it off it was a pit bull - aren't we trying to get rid of them anyway? Aren't they being put down left and right? At least this one was put to good use.

[PrincessBandit]

All I have ever said is that eating a pet is abhorrent. In a country where eating guinea pigs, dogs or horses is considered normal it is probably because they do farm them specifically for that purpose. Just as in New Zealand we farm cattle, sheep, pigs and yes, deer, for the same reason.
I think most NZers would find it odd, at the very least, to suddenly have cat or budgie etc. appear in the supermarket aisles. And I further suspect there would be a lot of resistance to it. That is just how people view things here.
Some would probably be quite happy, but my suspicion is they'd be in the minority. Who knows, with enough exposure that could well change over time. The fact that kangaroo meat didn't ever really take off here suggests otherwise though.

Again I say, if I went to another country where it was perfectly acceptable to have takeaway dog from the local street vendor I would have to make the choice whether to fit in with the culture and tuck in or abstain for my personal reasons. If I went to a muslim country which insisted on women wearing certain items of clothing and covering of hair, then turned around and said "but I insist on wearing jeans and going bare-headed because I'm from NZ and that's what we do there" I probably wouldn't last too long.

[PrincessBandit]

And just to clarify, the species of animal doesn't automatically make it "pet" or "food". You can have a pet lamb and separate it from the rest of the flock who are going to the butcher; I have a pond full of gold fish in our back yard, none of which have names nor do I feel "warmy fuzzy attachment" to them other than cleaning their pond and feeding them, but I wouldn't eat any of them either.