Ugh, I saw a video like that where some assholes were doing that to a turtle. I’ve never seen a turtle run so fast before. So *edited*ing sad.
I read somewhere that cats are like the most tortured (or maybe like second most; if it was second, I don’t remember if they mentioned what was first) animal. I know that sentence sounds like it would include livestock, but I think it was maybe animals kept as pets. I don’t remember.
I remember the first picture I ever saw. They lured the cat into the bathtub with a can of cat food and then in each snapshot after, you see the cat getting tied up, getting its tail cut off (and the pliers used to do it), laying in its own blood in the tub… ugh. The last one had the cat suspended from ropes in the tub, dead, its jaw wide open. It looked like it was unhinged. It made me sick to my stomach.
My mom, while she loves our pets, sometimes thinks we’re crazy keeping them all, but when I see this kind of *edited* on the internet, I think of how lucky our pets are to have people who love them so much. It makes me sick to imagine that it could be one of my cats in that pic. We’ve given a couple of kittens away, but it was to friends and a nurse at an animal hospital. We know they’ll be taken care of. I also offer to take them back if they don’t want them. I’d rather take care of them than have them get released into the neighborhood or taken to a shelter (I hate that animals are put down due to lack of room).