I’m writing in regard to the article Sept. 17 about the heartless human being in Enfield who let his dogs die from abuse and starvation.

How can anyone be so cruel to defenseless animals and get away with it with only a $500 fine and 14 days in jail? He should spend at least a year in jail and spend hard labor working at animal shelters, and pay a much larger fine.

How long had those poor animals been suffering? And he will be allowed to have a dog? That is a big no-no in my book. Where is the justice for his cruelty?

Why didn’t he take those poor dogs to a shelter if he couldn’t take care of them? What type of human being is he, and still allowed to have an animal? That poor animal will still be in the same environment.

What is wrong with that picture?

Animal lovers need to push for harsher punishment for such cruelty.

The case is so heartbreaking and terrible. Animals don’t ask for much, just someone to love and take good care of them.

Why and how could that man do what he did? His punishment does not fit his cruel crime.

Pauline Sharpe, Lewiston