Re: Scumbag kills kitten for unplugging his game console...
I don't mind killing animals so long as you have a good reason for it. My friends dad shot his 15 year old dog with a shotgun because the dog was ill, old, and could hardly move. It was clear the dog was miserable.
Also, when I was 16 we put our dog down(didn't shoot her, just took her to the vet) because she had stones in her bladder. The surgery to remove the stones would've cost us thousands of dollars and the vet said there was an 80% chance the stones would come back. So we put her down as we could hardly afford the first surgery, let alone surgery after surgery after surgery given the 80% chance that they'd come back.
LOL! She's the kindest little angel you'll ever meet ironically. Her dad is a big softie too (not physically, but personality). It's just how things are handled in the country with animals sometimes. I was trying to inject a dose of reality into this discussion before we start getting too sensitive over animals.. just my opinion.
I grew up in a small town, both parents grew up on farms. Animals were born and died regularly. It's nothing shocking in my opinion. Again, what was shocking about the death of that cat is the reason and action he took in doing it, not the fact that a cat died.
Another story. My parents had a baby kitten that chased my sister to the school bus as a kid. The bus ran the cat over and its guts were split out on the road. It was still alive and suffering. My dad had to pick it up and kill it with a hammer to put the poor thing out of its misery. Did he want to kill an animal? No. Was it the right thing to do? Absolutely. That cat was going to die painfully within the hour.
Animals die. That's not the concern with this story... it's the man's motives and actions.
EDIT: I guess I'm just trying to convey why some people may not be so sensitive to the fact that a small animal died. I was trying to string a good purpose together with this post, but it's kind of discombobulated.
And if you're wondering, I've never killed an animal in my life. I don't hunt/fish or any of that. So, it's not like I'm some gun-toting hunter trying to defend something. I've never even been in a fight.
I grew up in a small town, both parents grew up on farms. Animals were born and died regularly. It's nothing shocking in my opinion. Again, what was shocking about the death of that cat is the reason and action he took in doing it, not the fact that a cat died.
Another story. My parents had a baby kitten that chased my sister to the school bus as a kid. The bus ran the cat over and its guts were split out on the road. It was still alive and suffering. My dad had to pick it up and kill it with a hammer to put the poor thing out of its misery. Did he want to kill an animal? No. Was it the right thing to do? Absolutely. That cat was going to die painfully within the hour.
Animals die. That's not the concern with this story... it's the man's motives and actions.
EDIT: I guess I'm just trying to convey why some people may not be so sensitive to the fact that a small animal died. I was trying to string a good purpose together with this post, but it's kind of discombobulated.
And if you're wondering, I've never killed an animal in my life. I don't hunt/fish or any of that. So, it's not like I'm some gun-toting hunter trying to defend something. I've never even been in a fight.
Also, when I was 16 we put our dog down(didn't shoot her, just took her to the vet) because she had stones in her bladder. The surgery to remove the stones would've cost us thousands of dollars and the vet said there was an 80% chance the stones would come back. So we put her down as we could hardly afford the first surgery, let alone surgery after surgery after surgery given the 80% chance that they'd come back.
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