Poisoning pet animals

It was on the news a couple of days ago: someone is poisoning pet animals, somewhere up in the north (of the Netherlands). What I think about that? (You ask because I said some nasty things about dogs–in fact I never fulminate against dogs, but against their owners: humans!)

I think this poisoning really sucks! Not so much because I think animals have a right to live (as in fact I do), as I do not think I relate morally to animals: only to humans, as if that leaves less than a handful of worries. This venomous person has some serious problems, not so much moral problems, though, but psychological ones. Noone should live his life like that.
Let me illustrate my point in light of the dog soup entry below. I wouldn’t care as much for the lives of these animals if their owners took them to the vet for a lethal injection; nor if they were rats or other nonutilitarian beasts.
Lastly, I think I merely represent the moral majority of our culture. It is just that we are not in the habit of saying these things aloud. But that is sentimental crap.