Kids try to burn puppies on fire

February 04, 2009

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A GANG of children as young as 10 were caught trying to roast puppies over a fire.

The terrified animals were only saved when passer-by Melanie Johnson spotted the group of children kicking the pups and holding them over a bonfire on a canal bank.

She confronted the dozen youngsters and rescued the dogs as the gang fled from the scene in Newbold, Rochdale.

Ms Johnson, 32, passed the puppies on to an RSPCA centre where staff treated the dogs and are now looking to find them new homes.

She was walking close to the canal near her home on Friday afternoon and came across the children.

She said: "I just could not believe the cruelty being shown by these kids. If I hadn't turned up, I think they would have burned the dogs alive.

"Most of the kids were aged 12, 13 or older. But some were as young at 10."

RSPCA animal shelter manager Jean Spencer said: "The puppies are only seven weeks old.

"The fur on one of them was singed and the other has a small hernia. Fortunately, they are going to be fine."

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CorneredAllTheLuck, Audenshaw (04/02/2009 at 07:25)

Nothing surprises me in this country. It is a profound pity that a good proportion of the population cannot be sterilised.

andanotherthing, Mcr (04/02/2009 at 08:16)

Now tell me there's nothing wrong with the children today. the same lot will be stabbing, mugging and robbing in a year or so.

toon, salford (04/02/2009 at 08:19)

Is there no sense of right and wrong anymore. How on earth can these kids think that its ok or fun to torture these helpless animals. What must be going through their minds? This is surely an act of an unbalanced and sick mind!!!!!!!!!!

Lawrence Glendinning (04/02/2009 at 08:28)

Hope the parents are proud that they have raised a bunch of animal torturers.

As and when the culprits are caught and convicted - they all should be named and shamed.

Andy stockport (04/02/2009 at 08:28)

disgusting! The kids should be roasted and kicked themselves. Punishment that fits the crime!

Blue Moon..., Manchester (04/02/2009 at 08:31)

this is a disgrace.

kill the kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Devil's Advocate (04/02/2009 at 08:34)

I am not a dog lover, but how could anyone do this to defenseless puppies? This story is a chilling reminder that serial killers and psychopaths usually start with cruelty to animals.

I have noticed that a great number of the news items recently, that have reported incidents of violence and/or robbery, are in the Oldham/Rochdale areas. Can anyone who lives there shed any light on why this could be?

Lady Muffin, Work!! (04/02/2009 at 08:53)

What lovely children they are!! Little barstewards, bet there parents are so proud!!

Bluekev, Stockport (04/02/2009 at 08:58)

Do the same to the "kids"

Blue Caz, Fallowfield (04/02/2009 at 08:59)

What kind of people are these kids going to become, if they are already pure evil. Their punishment should be the same.

Jomov (04/02/2009 at 09:08)

Our future sickos, lock em up!

MUFC-herefirst-1878, Wilmslow (04/02/2009 at 09:10)

these kids should be found and given the same treatment those poor puppies had to suffer

Salford n Proud, Salford (04/02/2009 at 09:15)

How sick

NWmancCUB (04/02/2009 at 09:23)

It's stories like these that sicken me to the core. Just what kind of gratifiction do scum like this actually get from carrying out such inhumane acts on defenseless animals??

Well done Ms Johnson for challenging these vermin and rescuing the puppies. It's nice to hear there are still members of the public with a backbone. If I had been there I would have thrown the scum on the fire....

Blue Moon..., Manchester (04/02/2009 at 09:29)

terrible.....

kimsback, stockport (04/02/2009 at 09:29)

Awwww i just dont know any more what were these kids thinking. These dogs are absolutely gorgeous how can anyone be so nasty im so upset that kids these days seem to have no respect.

Trueman (04/02/2009 at 09:30)

Gutless scum.

Rochdales a hole.

milli vanillis toyboy uncle, stocky (04/02/2009 at 09:32)

Evil .
Thay will probably start doing similar things on humans in a couple of years time .
Bet their mums are well proud of them .

Mike S, Manchester (04/02/2009 at 09:33)

The age of criminal consent is 10, so they can be prosecuted. I hope these little toerags are caught and locked up. This story has just ruined my day. Yet again, the parents have failed to instill a sense of right and wrong in these little monsters so they may not have realised just how evil what they were doing is.

Technobabble, Manchester (04/02/2009 at 09:45)

Once i got past my initial shock, a question occured to me; where the heck did these kids get a couple of puppies from in the first place?? Were they already dumped, possibly even stolen, or did someone actually give them the animals?

Peter Beagrie`s beagle (04/02/2009 at 09:50)

I thought I had heard and seen everything in this cesspit of a country, but this is beyond belief.

Whoever the parents of these young scum bags are they should hang their heads in shame at siring such waste of life thickos, and they will know if their "little darlings" have been involved, because there will be plenty of gossip around this.

What a sad state of affairs this country is in.

Guten Tag, Deutschland,, Manchester (04/02/2009 at 09:53)

Jeeez, what are we breeding in this country? Parents! Do you know or care what your 10 year old is up to?

MPs gravy train, UK (04/02/2009 at 10:04)

Quite sickening. What has happened to Rochdale?

want to leave, Stretford (04/02/2009 at 10:05)

Totally utterly sick.

What morals are the parents giving these children - probably none.

How would thy like it if someone roasted them over a fire?

These kids must stopped before they set fire to someones house.

Absolutely barbaric.

penpen (04/02/2009 at 10:09)

That is just sick. I hope all the children were dealt with. Children or not, they should not get away with this.

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