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This is really horrifying. There's literally no reason for junior high students to see this. It serves no educational value whatsoever. I don't care if the puppy had a deformity and was sick. If it was going to die you euthanize it humanely. You don't feed it live to a turtle in front of children to teach them about the circle of life.

I'm surprised that some parents are defending this. It actually didn't happen during class but during a supplementary lesson after school. The teacher had previously fed other animals to reptiles.

There are always tough moments in biology class from wrapping your head around osmosis to dissecting a frog, but one teacher in Idaho gave some students a lesson they will never forget when he fed a live puppy to a turtle.

After school, Preston Junior High School science teacher Robert Crosland taught about the circle of life by letting a snapping turtle have at a live pup. Not surprisingly, he is now under investigation with animal rights activists calling the demonstration "disgusting and sick." One told the local Fox affiliate, "Allowing children to watch an innocent baby puppy scream because it is being fed to an animal. That is violence. That is not okay."

However, some parents and students are defending the teacher, pointing out that the puppy had deformities and would've died soon anyways. One student told the East Idaho Post the Crosland is "a cool teacher who really brought science to life," adding, "I loved his class because he had turtles and snakes and other cool things."

Previously, Crosland had fed guinea pigs to the snakes and turtles in his classroom, but it's not clear if they were alive or not.

In a press release, Preston Junior High explained there is now an investigation into the incident and asked parents to be patient and remember the "years of care, effort and passion" from Crosland.

Meanwhile, the superintendent called the event "a regrettable circumstance involving some of the biological specimens," and stated that it did not happen during school. The local sheriff is also looking into what occurred.
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Koby_Fish said:
Well for starters, puppies aren't even the usual prey of these damn turtles. AFAIK it's fish. Maybe rodents if they can catch them? But a dog? C'mon what's the teacher trying to do, give the turtle heartworm or tapeworms?
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Snappers will eat anything unlucky enough to fall in front of them, and some breeders prefer to feed stillborn or deformed animals to other things so not to waste stuff (for example I've seen ball python breeders feed stillborns and deformed babies to monitors, frogs, king snakes, king cobras, etc). The puppy still should have been killed more humanely prior though, and frozen for several days to kill any diseases it might have.
 
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FierceBrosnan said:
Well that's two awful stories about dead puppies today. How does a flight attendant not know the pet policy of the airline she works for?
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Even people who just fly on planes sometimes would know dogs don't go in the overhead bin. That's... just obvious. The attendant is claiming she didn't know it was a dog, but witnesses disagree:
I witnessed a United flight attendant instruct a woman to put her dog carrier with live dog in an overhead bin. The passenger adamantly pushed back, sharing verbally that her dog was in the bag. The flight attendant continued to ask the passenger to do it, and she eventually complied. By the end of the flight, the dog was dead. The woman was crying in the airplane aisle on the floor. A fellow passenger offered to hold the newborn while the mother was crying on the floor aisle with the dog. it was this out of body experience of grief.

But holy **** I don’t know how the hell this happened. The flight attendant wouldn’t even NEED to hear there was a dog in the carrier. She was right there looking at the TSA approved bag. (The dog carrier is the black on the ground in the photo. It is clearly a carrier with mesh, which makes me question how the flight attendant could say she didn’t know there was a dog)

I feel angry and powerless and regretful. I know clearly this was not an intent of anyone and yet that flight attendant is responsible for this. How were we to know that maybe there wasn’t a new ventilation system in those bins? It’s not our job to know this information.

I understand emotional distress in a different way right now. I can’t get the image out of my head of the woman on the floor of the airplane aisle, crying and holding that sweet dog.

Immediately after the flight landed, myself and another witness stayed to speak with various United employees. The flight attendant denied knowing it was a dog, but the man seated next to me said he heard the flight attendant respond to the passenger “you need to put your dog up here” – therefore admitting that she knew an animal was in there. Additionally, I’ve been in touch with United via private message on Twitter.
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Sorry for the dead dog story, guys. I mostly posted it because it involves United being retarded again.
 
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What's horrifying beyond this is the fact that when you think about it, a 10-month-old puppy is essentially an eager-to-please, energy-filled furry 6 year old. It was locked up in a dark place and from what the article implies, began to suffocate. It cried out for help and naturally, people who heard it assumed it was the same as how babies cry on planes -- it's a new, scary experience, but something that it needs to bear. And then you realize that you've heard it crying for help and ignored it for that reason, and the whole time you were a bystander to its death. I just can't imagine how terrified and panicked that dog must have been up until the end. Just thinking about it makes my heart ache big time. No pet should have to die scared and panicked and fighting for its life like that.
 
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This is terrible and all, I'm sure she's devastated and I know this is going to come off as heartless, but after this and previously reading about a student who flushed her hamster down the toilet at the airport because the airline attendant allegedly told her she had to do that or set it loose before she could board... seriously people, use some common sense – don't endanger and kill your pets just because some airline employee tells you to.

Would you put a baby in the overhead compartment? No. So should you put a dog? No. Bags full of clothes go in the overhead compartment and poops go in the toilet, not dogs and hamsters. I really didn't think this would be necessary to point out. The flight attendant uniform shouldn't carry the level of authority that a labcoat did in the Milgram experiment.
 
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Don't worry- other French bulldogs won't take this lying down.

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