Heartless teenager steals and kills pet parrot.

Sadly it seems as if there's more and more cases like this appearing in the press, and people, especially teens, don't seem to value the cost of an animals life anymore for some reason. I think that this mentality as manifested itself in recent years as because when I was growing up I don't remember hearing about stories such as this. I don't know whats happened to society in recent years but it seems that crimes, and that's what they are, crimes, are tolerated more than they ever was, and we seem to have to many liberals that are willing to forgive crimes like this or punish them with a hug and blame their upbringing.
Where I live in the UK, a few months ago a teenager set fire to the local dogs home killing around 30 in the fire and injuring dozens more. Now you can't tell me that he didn't know that what he was doing wasn't right, but yet we had social services coming out saying he was only doing it as a cry for attention. Cry for attention or not, anybody that commits such a barbaric act as that deserves to be punished just like anybody else, because even though this might be going a bit too far, what this teenager as done in this case is get away with murdering 30 dogs and if one of those was my dog, that's exactly what I'd want him done for...murder.