The Editor,
Re: "Sympathy for the dog killer Paulsen," the Now, Feb. 5.
I am so glad someone voiced a reasonable opinion about the severe sentence this dog walker got for her mistake. I might understand it if she had hurt the dogs on purpose by beating them or something but her mistake was born out of ignorance.
This sentence may make people who think dogs are more important than people feel better but it does nothing to make this world a safer place. A ban on working with animals in the future would have done as much to make animals safe as this ridiculous sentence.
Our news has recently shown more compassion and coverage for animals than the thousands of children who go to bed hungry every night because of our low minimum wage and/or our welfare cheques not increasing in spite of the price of food skyrocketing. What happened to those dogs was very sad but our society seems to be losing perspective if people think there should be longer sentences for what happened accidentally to dogs, than the justice people are getting for intentional infliction of pain and abuse on our fellow human beings.
Our jails need to be used for real criminals.
Kelly Gale, Delta