how can you be so heartless?

Can't you see that berry's posts are a coming from his lack of personal ties to his community? "Shoot him," says the cold hearted redneck when he sees the dropped puppy wandering down the street, howling for it's mother. "Or just ignore it and it'll starve soon enough." Meanwhile the neglected puppy falls in with a gang of opossums. Months later they show him how to steal the suet from your bird feeders. "Where have all the birds gone?" the clueless redneck asks. Don't throw people to the opossums. Take them in. Make them your pet.