This Stuff is Real

 Sometimes I wonder, how low the human race can actually go. I'm sure that there is no end to our stupidity, when I hear stories like what I heard yesterday. 


 Rescue Ink is urgently trying to find who is responsible for the "Freeze Branding" of a dog they found. Now, why they did it, they say it's a game. That the number on the side of the dog (or cat) is the amount of points you get if you manage to shoot the animal. If that isn't bad enough, freeze branding is an incredibly inhumane thing in itself. What freeze branding is, is liquid nitrogen sort of similar to that that removes warts off humans. Now, supposedly this process is a very very painful one. They remove the fur where they want the "lettering" and they  then use the liquid nitrogen to "freeze brand" the animal. Now this permanently damages the skin, and any fur growing back would lose pigmentation, and therefore make it easy to spot this dog, while permanently branding it.

There is a lot of controversy on this, as a few people think that this is done by a hunter, so that everyone knows the dog is his. However, that is only speculation, and this has been done in other places. Such games, are sick and seriously need to be ended. Even the act of Freeze Branding is inhumane enough to end the practice. I don't know, I guess horses go through it with the fire branding, or sometimes animals are tattooed. But the act of Freeze Branding seems a bit more.. sinister than those do. Maybe it's because I haven't heard of it before, until now. Reading up on it, it seems that hunters do sometimes use this as a way of branding their dogs. However then I read up on the cases where the animals were indeed gunned down. I guess it's up to you to make your own opinions on it. 


However Rescue Ink in Tennessee has a $2000 reward for the people who did this to this dog. They want answers, and honestly, everyone should want answers. This dog was picked up as a stray, with no collar. The odds of a hunter, in my opinion, taking the time to mark it as his, and then just letting it become a stray.. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Hopefully though, they find the responsible party, and get that poor dog a great new home. 


Anyone with any information can call Rescue Ink on the Emergency # 1-855-772-8465