I have a theory as to why that pervert only got 6 months in jail. I honestly have to say that I really think the reason that he only got 6 months max in jail is because to lawmakers, guinea pigs are "just guinea pigs". They most likely think that dogs and other pets are better animals than guinea pigs.
Nobody can explain why some people have this mentality, they just do. They're the kind of people that make up law officials everywhere. The law officials make their rules by trying to reperesent what they think is the general opinion of everyone. In their heads they think "Who would think their pet guinea pig is more important than their pet dog? I mean, come on guys, we can't put a guy away for too long just for killing some guinea pigs. I mean, its not like their dogs or cats or horses, so...lets be reasonable."
That is probably very close to what they think, they think it wouldn't be fair or humane to the criminal to punish them harshly for killing
cavies.
On Animal cops on animal planet this one time, this guy beat two dogs so badly that they both died. He got what animal planet always says at the end of Animal Cops "people on this program may not have been found guilty, and those who have will spend no more than 2 years in jail".
The sad truth is that people just do not care about animals as much as they do people, and they firmly believe that animals have no feelings. I beg to differ, but I won't get into that.
I find it completely unbelievable that a man who killed just 2 dogs gets two years in jail, but some jerko butt-face who kills 122 more guinea pigs than the other guy killed dogs.....gets away with murder with six friggin frackin months in jail......
What if this guy had killed 124 dogs instead of 124
cavies, then I bet the dumb dumber and dumbest law officials would give him ten or so years in jail............
Plus, they completely miss the point that studies have shown that people who abuse animals are much much much more likely to take those behaviors onto humans.....so, like AnimalHouse36 said, imagine what this killer could do to a child, or to any human being? If those studies are true as they claim they are, then this guy could be out in only half a year, on the streets, a danger to anyone around him.
*sigh* What next? I don't even want to know....