School Vandal Goes Too Far

At three in the morning, the principle of Robert Little Public School got a call from local police, telling him that his school had just been vandalized. After receiving the news, he rushed to his school, to find that the library computers had been demolished, along with finding smashed windows and flipped tables around the entire school. One room had been subject to the vandal's usage of a fire exstinguisher to coat the entire room in the chemically unsafe foam, ruining books and other supplies; this was one of 19 classrooms, and one of 11 that were vandalized. Most cruel was when the intruder smashed the school fish tanks, murdering 10 plus innocent fish in cold blood. They did eventually trigger the alarm system, causing a security guard to succesfully stop the two 19 year old criminals, Christopher Wilkinson and Robert Tressel from Acton, from their near escape. The two boys are now to be trialed for animal abuse, breaking and entering, and mischeif. The school board has called off school until further notice, and parents are now volunteering to help clean up this mess.

This event was clearly horrific, but also somewhat avoidable. Considering the school has 400+ students from Kindergarden to Grade 5, if the security system is so lacking that they were able to do that level of damage before being caught, there is truly an issue. The school should be fosterng knowledge and creativity in youths, but also keeping them safe from harm, which they are not equipped to do. However, these boys are clearly quite disturbed, and deserve to be chewed up and spit out by the justice system for destroying tens of thousands of dollars of school property. No question about it, the security system needs to be upgraded, but those hooligans shouldn't get away with anything less than the full extent of the law for their clearly nonsensical crime. To read more about this incident, click on the link.

Two Endangered Masai Giraffes Die of Maltreatment at B.C Instution

At the Mountain View Conservation and Breeding Center, situated in British Columbia, a necrospy and further investigation found that the poor treatment of their animals was detrimental enough to end the lives of two young giraffes. The first death was of a four year old giraffe has been attributed to the extreme cold and poor heating in the facility, but that is not all that lead to it's death. Since a giraffe is a very huge animal, malnutrition would be something hard to diagnose, but after taking sample post mortum, Bruce Burton, a veterinarian at the center, came to the conclusion that the food given was not suitable to giraffes. The giraffe's exact cause of death was peracute mortality syndrome, which means that the giraffe's lack of body fat lead to a sudden death. The organization fed the giraffes pellets, stuffed with grains and leaves, but due to the nature of serving, the giraffes would pick out the leaves and only eat the grain. The death of these two endangered Masai Giraffes is most certainly tragic.

In my opinion, this organization is most certainly at fault for these deaths. According to reports, these barns were described as totally barren and not appropriate for a giraffe. This particular facility has also been looked into for inhumane euthanization, and the results are not yet disclosed, which says an awful lot for me. As a place that specializes in the treatment of endangered animals, they are responsible for knowing the appropriate diet, inhabitants, and treatment of these animals, so this is either a place of clear neglect or pure ignorance; either way, an endangered species is not going to do to well. I definitely think that these giraffes should be sent to an instution that actually cares for these animals. To see the original article by CBC, the link is here, and there are many more news stories by other publications commenting on this sadness.