In 1997, two Edmonton men tied a border collie and a husky to a tree and smashed in their heads with aluminum baseball bats. The sickening killings sparked nation-wide outrage, but the judge in the case was forced to acquit the men, stating, “It certainly is not acceptable to me and many other people in this country to kill a dog like [that]… but there is no law.” That’s right—this brutal and vicious beating wasn’t a crime because the dogs died quickly.