Knife crime
We hear a lot lately about the growing incidence of knife crime everywhere. but what we don't hear much about is that an increasing number of knife attacks are also happening to animals as well.
I have just read that a small pony was slashed and stabbed in Sunderland, and a dog was knifed through it's head in Halifax, then shut in a suitcase and left to die.
According to the RSPCA, they are getting an increasing number of knife attacks on animals now, and at the moment there are more a hundred per year happening - more than 2 a week!
Sometimes when these people go after another human, it might be a personal grudge or ongoing fight, but why oh why would they slash a Shetland pony or a dog if it wasn't out of pure malice or evil.
Turns your stomach doesn't it.