A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2006 What is wrong with this world???

A couple came to visit yesterday (and enjoy my gardens?).
They brought their POS kid with them.
He caught my pet frog in the bird bath, and squeezed him til he popped!
What is wrong in this world when people raise kids who would do that? When I catch the dad I will pop him!

That is so, so, so wrong!

Bill...I hate that.

Awhile back Brennan had a pool party...and he found a frog in the skimmer. As he was taking it to the edge of the woods to turn it loose, a boy that was there grabbed it and said, "Let's run over it with the bike!"

Brennan started screaming...then Rachel got the frog away from the boy and turned it loose, and gave him a pretty stern talking to right in front of his parents who were sitting there. His parents didn't say anything at all to him, that it was wrong to run over that frog with the bicycle.

Oh Bill, that is just horrible!!!! I cannot believe a parent would sit and let their child do that or that a parent upon hearing something like that would not give the child a good talking to!!!!

Sometimes people just SUCK!

oh, Bill!

I'm so sorry that little boy is not being raised to respect creatures of all sizes and types. What a disservice those parents are doing to him and the world.

So sorry...

That is just the reason I wont let people bring kids to see my animals tried it made a granddaughter mad when I told her son not to poke his finger at my birds or hit my dogs. I don't need company that bad. My animals will not be abused by anyone child or adult. I don't abuse animals and nobody will around me.

Jimmy, I am with you there. We may not have pets right now, but my kids sure as h*** know better than to torture or mistreat ANY animal!

Bill, I'm so sorry to hear about your pet frog! Give me a break!!!

There has GOT to be something extremely aberrant in a child who would purposefully harm a living creature. That is NOT normal childhood behavior!

Think of it: we start them out with "See the nice doggy? See the pretty kitty? The duck says quack quack!"

And kids LOVE that stuff ... from soft caterpillers to butterflies sweeping past. Little ones are naturally tenderhearted unless something has gone badly wrong... either in the way they were parented or inside their minds.

THAT really scares me for what is being unleased on the world coming from a kid like that? Today a frog... tomorrow, what?

Very spooky and very sad.

Bill, I'm terribly sorry for your loss.

Merme

I am so sorry, Bill. That is an awful thing to have happen.

OMG, Bill!
I assume you're talking about Dude?

(What a horrible thing to happen to ANY creature, & what a sad loss for you, Cedar Hill... and US.)

When hearts are heavy, words are few. I'm just so sorry

Sorrrry, to hear about your frog..

I think a bunch of those people's relatives' live on my street... a couple of houses' down on either side of me.....

They're always wanting to squish my spiders, or shovel a worm in half, or poke sticks' at moths' or chase down grasshoppers' and they think it's funny..
I am always out with the kids' and the neighborhood boys when they are here, and they look at me like I have 3 heads cause I yell at them for hurting "animals" in my yard...
I tell them I have a sign all around my property that says, Animal sanctuary..welcome.
***D@mn woodchucks' can read those signs too ***
but I finally have my oldest one saving the worms in his dirt pile *he yells over and says, Mommmmmmmm, got another worm for you* and they are actually picking them up now...*before they were a bit squiggley for them, but they are finally workin' into it...being brave infront of the other boys who want to hurt them*

But alot I think has to do with what their parents likes' *or dislikes'* and they learn from that...
The one lady down the street, can not stand spiders, at all, she goes into the hee~bee~gee~bees' when she sees' one.. and the little boy has the same trait.... if he sees' one on a toy, he won't even touch that toy..
( I should be one on the door knob, see if that would stop him from knockin' on it )

I am so sorry to hear about your frog,Bill

Kids like that tick me off beyond belief Unfortunately we are seeing that kind of behaviour more and more often.

I hope you gave him and his parents a "talking to".

Sorry to hear about your frog Bill.. I Love frogs and used to have some as pets..

I sure wished parents would take more time to teach their children about nature and living things..
I have Children that would never do that! I do take the time to talk with them and let them know even that little ant has feelings...

Sorry Bill..

Thats terrible to hear that Bill .
We used to have pet frogs when the kids were small and this really disturbes me to hear this!!!
I see that you put Cedar Hill is closed...for the sake of all others Bill...please reconsider for the ones who do obey and enjoy creatures, big or small.
I am sure you have lots of visitors who love coming to your place

Most kids dont seem to be taught respect for anything much less life. Its a very sad world.
I can still hear " How would you like it if someone did that to you?" from my childhood. I havent heard a parent say that in forever.
I'm sorry for your loss Bill.

Bill, I am SOOO sorry about your frog!

It is so sad that kids aren't learning proper behavior from their parents. No wonder the world is in the shape it is.

I found a grasshopper in my kitchen window this morning. I had Jim take it outside and release it. I can't understand hurting any living thing just for cruelty's sake.

The parents will end up regretting how they raised the little boy when he grows up and "graduates" to hurting people and they get hit in their pocketbooks...

I am so sorry for your loss, Bill!

Dianna

I removed the "closed sign" because its not fair to punish the majority for the bad actions of one brat.

Yes Patty.... it was Dude.

Good choice Bill...its hard I'm sure but just think of the delight you will see in others faces!
Well put...one brat!!

I like to never went to sleep last night, thinking about this.
I was so mad and so sad.

You know I'd go off on someone if they hurt my froggy!!!! I'm really, terribly sorry Bill.... I get attached to all of my fish and my frog now too....

I know of a child that liked to hurt animals when he was young. His parents never did anything and now the boy is in reform school. The parents just don't "understand" it :rolleyes:

They say that Serial Killers start early in childhood by hurting and killing animals...........

I am happy you have reopened Cedar Hill Bill. Mikey asked me almost daily if he can come and see you. Every time we get into the car he askes if we are going to see Bill.

Sorry to hear about this bill, What is wrong with the parents of that child!! It is a scary world!
When people hurt animals and humans,there is no respect for life.

I'm relieved to know that the insensitive & horrific treatment which was imposed on a Cedar Hill resident by such an irresponsible person, won't prevent people like my Granddaughter from returning to Cedar Hill. Thank you, Bill.

BG fell in love with Dude the instant she saw him.
7/16/2006

May he rest in peace

Well...that made me cry again.....

So sorry about your buddy frog Bill..
This is reflection of the parents not teaching respect and honor for all living things, I don't care if it's a blade of grass or a great white whale... Respect it, and honor it's very exsistance !!!
And worse not setting an example of concience of wrong doing when the act was discovered.. The mother should have been livid(for lack of a better word) at his behavior, so evidently this is something that has been ignored for a long time ,, or for that matter never addressed at all.
Tho all this cannot bring back Dude, by keeping Cedar Hill open will honor him by the joy it will bring to those who respect all the beauty and buddies you have been blessed with that live around you.

He was just a damn frog, but every morning he was there when I went for my garden walk. Every morning I said "Hey Dude, how ya doin today?"
He was just a friggin Frog, but he was my friend!

And that all it takes to break your heart when he's gone.

The video in my head kept re-running how Shelly & BG kept going back to see Dude when we were at your place, Bill... those girls were nuts about that little guy, & I thought it was so sweet! (I'm not telling either one of them what happened. I'm hoping that by next summer, Mother Nature will help another froggy find your water features & the girls might not notice that it's not Dude.)

Maybe next time it'll be a little Dudess!

I hope you're OK, Bill.

My wife loved and collected frogs bet she has close to a hundred or more in her china hutch. She had some little frogs in a tank when they died she cried for a week. I have several toads around I made a little thing so they can get water and talk to them when I see them. My dogs never bother them ether I think that is pretty good especialy for old spotted dog had to hunt for his food till we brought him in he was abandoned now he has to hunt no more except the vanilla ice cream cup I give them all.

Sorry to hear about your frog, Bill.
As a kid myself, i do not play all that many video games. I'm always occupied with something else, but i can tell you, i do know quite a lot of kids that WILL try to copy or imitate something they saw on TV or a video game. And the worst part is, these childrens' parent/s could not care less about what their child is doing. These kids i know walk around all day, pretending to be someone they saw on TV for instance, wacking things around with a stick. My grandmother feeds the local stray cat( if you want to call it that). Just the other day, i saw one of the neighbor-boys actually trying to hit the poor cat with a stick!!! Of course, with me being around this kids' age, i could not do much to help. It was just TERRIBLE seeing that happen. It's just that some kids have no respect what-so-ever, not even to their parents, on some occasions.
If some children could just, well, become "nicer" overall, the world WOULD be a much better place, without any incidents such as Bill's frog.
Hopefully, in time, the people who need to notice things like this WILL notice them, and hopefully approach their kids and "knock some sense into them!"

Jeffery Daumer(sp)started out killing kittens and dogs and anything helpless see how he ended up.

Joy and happiness come is all ways!! Even a cute little frog!! I just love going to the pond and seeing my little critters.. It makes me happy!!