Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 31 May 2012 23:53:51 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Cruelty to animals leads to greater acts of evil https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/06/05/cruelty-to-animals-leads-to-greater-acts-of-evil/ Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:32:38 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=26721

A 12-year-old boy in Cannons Creek recently rescued a dog from being held down, kicked and hit with a cricket bat. In her weekly column, Rosemary McLeod reflects on what is likely to happen later in life to young people who are cruel to animals. McLeod contends that cruelty to animals "as a child is Read more

Cruelty to animals leads to greater acts of evil... Read more]]> A 12-year-old boy in Cannons Creek recently rescued a dog from being held down, kicked and hit with a cricket bat.

In her weekly column, Rosemary McLeod reflects on what is likely to happen later in life to young people who are cruel to animals.

McLeod contends that cruelty to animals "as a child is the first step towards a life of causing harm", and that we "shouldn't believe we can do nothing when it happens".

 

 

Rosemary McLeod is a columnist, cartoonist and journalist.

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