Starving husky ate gravel to stay alive: B.C. SPCA

Pictures like that just make me sad.

People like that just make me want to go to jail for punching them.

I think I would end up doing more then just punching the person.

The husky may have ate gravel but the gravel did not keep the dog alive. Some idiot editor is just writing nonsense to pull at people's feelings.

This person comes from a culture that's more or less collectively autistic and they lack empathy towards the suffering of animals and other human beings, too.

Celebrate diversity.

Yes, he should have inserted the word try in there. Seems a bit fussy to worry about it tho.

I don't understand why people do this. I doubt the owner was deliberately starving the dog to cause harm, was just oblivious. He apparently has told SPCA his story why this happened. They won't release it because it's part of the court case against him. The SPCA has said they will push for a stiff sentence to establish case law for taking animal abuse more seriously. The laws are on the books, but the case law isn't well established yet.

I do wonder: the owner lives (lived?) in Coquitlam, the dog was found in Maple Ridge. Was it under the control of the owner at the time it was found?

The dog probably wandered away and, like I said, the owner is very likely autistic to some degree or another and is/was completely oblivious to the suffering of the animal.

You sure love to misuse the word autistic, don't you? If he really was autistic that's a pretty good defense in court.

Autism is a spectrum. Lots of people exhibit some degree or another of it. I'm one of them. I have problems with perceiving selected social cues that a doctor told me was like being "emotionally color blind".

My brother-in-law is diagnosed as autistic and he loves his pets and gives not one single fuck about other human beings. Never has. When the neighbor's house was burning he got out the garden hose and started wetting down the roof on his own house to make sure nothing happened to it.

Did he call the fire department to help the neighbor? Nope.

When asked about that his reply was, "Our house wasn't on fire so why should I call the fire department?"

I also work with a lot of engineers most of whom are autistic or Asperger's to some degree or another so I see a lot of it every day.

That said, it is not a defense. If someone has a problem it's incumbent upon them to deal with it and not foist it on everyone else.

I think I would end up doing more then just punching the person.

So, we'll just chalk it up to 'things you see when you don't have your Taser'.

Autism is a spectrum. Lots of people exhibit some degree or another of it. I'm one of them. I have problems with perceiving selected social cues that a doctor told me was like being "emotionally color blind".

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I also work with a lot of engineers most of whom are autistic or Asperger's to some degree or another so I see a lot of it every day.

I was told too that I fall on that spectrum because I see most everything as an 'exploded view' perspective. When I look at a car or a lamp or a computer monitor, I don't visualize the outside of the object, I see it as if it were disassembled. Just for a second, then I re-assemble it.

It's not a really big surprise that a large proportion of people in IT can be placed somewhere on this spectrum. I worked with a guy once that would only eat things that were the same colour. He'd only eat 'white' one day - rice, potatoes, cauliflower, then perhaps 'red' the next.

OCD and autism are peas in a pod!