Sure there are worse things then animal cruelty, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't pursue it. The standards by wich we hold pet owners aren't exactly big- as long as you don't do something blatantly stupid like setting your cat on fire, you'll ususally walk away from it. Sending a hamster away on a mail box- where they very well could die slowly from either suffocation or dehydration- is more then enough proof that these pricks aren't responsible enough for keeping animals.