Flyer the Puppy

In case you have not yet met, allow me to introduce you to Flyer the puppy.

Unbelievably, someone threw this sweet little animal into a river from a car, driving on a busy street. Fortunately, Joanna Jedlewska (and her little daughter and niece who were riding with her at the time [in a vehicle headed in the opposite direction]) actually saw the man holding the puppy by the scruff of the neck out the window, and then hurl her into the river thirty feet below as he drove over a bridge. Jedlewska and the kids turned their mini-van around and were able to find the puppy - shivering with cold, but otherwise unharmed. (Details and video here will give you an appreciation of what happened to this dog. The sweetness of the children involved in the rescue is also something of a balm.)

Initially it seemed as though they would never find the idiot who abandoned this puppy in such a cruel manner, but apparently police received a tip, and they have arrested a man and charged him with one count of causing unnecessary suffering.

Meanwhile, Flyer has found a loving new home.

I know that there are daily atrocities against humanity (starvation, child abuse, death or disability by preventable diseases, death squads, North Korean death camps, etc.), and these are outrages beyond expression. But I still reserve the right to be disgusted and angry with any a$$hole who would hurt or abandon a helpless animal. I cannot fathom the darkness that must lurk in someone's soul that would enable him or her to harm a puppy.