I watched this programme. That woman who beat her "pet" with a hammer needs a taste of her own medicine. Her children witnessed her cruelty more than once, doesn't this perpetuate that animals are purely there to vent your anger and stress on? . Those boys with their ringleader, torturing and setting fire to that little dog, need, not counselling, but some real hard time in prison. The ringleader's lawyer says animals should not have the same rights as people, but they should. Don't animals, feathered, scaled or furred, feel pain? Of course they do! I am not in the habit of using bad language, but you didn't want to be around when I was watching this, the air wasn't just blue, it was electric. I could have quite cheerfully used a high powered cattle prod on those abusers.