[Toy Soldier]

There's literally no new information in that posted article other than an even more emotively biased account from the dog's owners, and the information that he went back to try to remove the chip later rather than doing at at the time which - I'm sorry - really only backs up the fact that it was an impulsive act in the first place. He grabbed it, killed it and dumped it and then realised that he had done something shameful and was panicking about being found out.

Again it isn't about making excuses or saying that it wasn't a terrible thing to happen or for him to do, or even saying that there should be no consequence for him. I agree that he shouldn't be flying, for example, at least for the forseeable future, and he should certainly be in mandatory psychiatric assessment and treatment.

It is however about trying to stay calm and take the time to reasonably and rationally assess human psychology instead of flying into a whirlwind of poor-puppy hysterics and comparing it to murdering another human being. Being quite blunt, it's important to understand that not everyone personifies and humanises pets or prescribe emotions and connections to them that are in fact pure human fantasy. The statement that "if he could do this to a dog, he could do it to a person" is only true if HE HIMSELF considers dogs and humans to be comparible. Not everyone does.