Dear Director Feltri,
I have a broken heart. The brown dog, a wonderful creature, was killed by a poisoned bite full of nails. He was a dog loved by everyone, innocent, generous. A barbarism that finds no words. When will we stop considering animals as lower beings? When will our country stop turning on the other side in front of these atrocities?
Rita Perna
Dear rita,
I understand your pain and share it. Bruno’s death is an outrage not only to animal life, but also to human dignity, because the civilization of a people is measured by the way in which animals treats, defenseless beings. And, although the Italians are largely animal rights, episodes and news events similar to this place us in front of us in front of an uncomfortable reality: we still have a long way to go. As it is now known, I love animals in a deep and poignant way. I respect them as brothers. I have not eaten meat or fish for several years now. I lived with cats saved from the street, I had horses, hens, goats, donkeys. The beasts are companions of life, creatures who feel, suffer, love, and that often offer us more humanity than the men themselves. This assiduous attendance of mine with all kinds of all kinds made me a better man, as I have had the opportunity to learn values and ethics by those who also consider unjustly lower, only because they do not have the word, despite being able to make themselves understood and communicate better than too many people are capable.
Bruno was not an ordinary dog. It was a hero, a good to be protected, even rewarded by high offices of the state for its civil virtues and the service offered in emergencies. A four -legged that lived to perform good in favor of that humanity that also betrayed and killed him in the most bloody way possible, that is, through the administration of a mouthful full of nails. A trap, a mockery, a perverse game, a deception, an ignoble act, a crime that has the aggravating circumstance, against those who have committed it, to have taken advantage of this purity and of this canine ingenuity in order to kill, slowly, after hours of atrocious agony, bleeding from the inside due to deep and very painful injuries. Bruno was found by his trainer in a pool of blood. Who did this? Belzebù himself? Only men can give birth to such a perversion, the beasts would never be able to. Bruno had become a symbol. And, like any innocent symbol, it was sacrificed by free brutality. A mouthful full of nails, already, I can’t help but think about it. You don’t need an encyclopedia to call it with its name. Torture. Homocide. Cowardice. Fortunately, in recent years something has moved. Thanks also to the commitment of the honorable Michela Vittoria Brambilla, the laws have changed: today those who mistreat or kill an animal risk up to 4 years in prison and savory fines of several tens of thousands of euros. These are no more of Serie B crimes, nor can it all be demerged with the term Marachella. In short, these are crimes in all respects. And whoever puts them in place – mind each other – is socially dangerous subject, not only for animals but for the whole community, since his violent nature has found in the fragility of the animal a possibility of outburst and immediate unloading, a sign that it is not containable, but a child is also fragile and can be fragile and exposed to this aggression anyone who does not have tools to defend themselves. Therefore, criminals of this caliber must be identified and arrested. Punished.
Unfortunately, it is not enough to write the laws, you must also apply them. And apply them rigorously, severity, intransigence. Whoever stains these crimes does not deserve attenuating, nor pity. A dog was tortured and killed for pleasure and for the absence of consciousness. And those who are devoid of consciousness can do everything.
Believe me, dear Rita, until we consider the animals less than men, we will be less.
And until we teach our children and grandchildren respect for all living creatures, we will continue to read stories like that of Bruno. Which is not only a news, but also a warning, an alarm, a warning. For all of us.