Yes. And to clarify, as I read some posts contending the animal abuse stuff is nonsense, training a dog is not the issue.
Beating animals or training with extreme force or fear, is.
Those of us who saw the dog "training" video saw something wrong. Scared six month old dogs that he seemed to relish calling "







", which, yes, I know is a technical, dog breeding term and innocuous, but which he seemed to take some odd pleasure in using, (I can't explain that. It's his tone and emphasis. Just weird), chained on short chains to a fence, being made to lunge at a terrified group of calves.
As to the allegations by others of animal abuse, some keep insisting that one person making that allegation means nothing. It's not one person. It's two people with exceedingly detailed observations. And a third person who said he has heard mixed reports about PF's treatment of animals.
So there is some evidence from three, separate sources that he has a temper and a streak of cruelty.
And no, this isn't about differing attitudes toward animals, depending on whether you are a tough cowboy or not. Yes, ranchers brand and castrate animals and that stuff is brutal. But that is different from beating a horse out of anger or terrorizing animals you don't use for meat, as a form of "training".
Also, someone said of this was true he wouldn't have a business. Well KB's mother reported that the couple weren't getting married due to financial issues. It's a small ranch and it doesn't seem this dude who lives with mommy, had much.
I'd say maybe his business wasn't doing so well.
But abusers may not treat someone else's children or animals with the sameviolence that they treat their own. That doesn't mean they aren't violent.
On another note, comments by a baby or toddler can and have been used against a perp whether or not the child is old enough to be interviewed. The last thing PF would want, IMO, is his baby saying "mama owwie" to her grandmother.
In the Jason Young case Michelle Young's two year old daughter played with dolls at daycare after the murder and talked about mommy having boo boos all over and getting "spanked" for biting. She acted out with two dolls, one hitting the other.
The daycare worker was allowed to testify to this and to reenact what she saw with the dolls:
Teacher: Daughter re-enacted Michelle Young's death with dolls :: WRAL.com