What do you make of the recent spate of cruelty to cats? In the paper today a horrible story of two kittens whose left hind feet were cut off by two children, both under 10 years old, with scissors. Almost too horrible to contemplate.
The children and their parents brought the kittens to the an animal foster home and giggled as they left it saying “their feet fell off”. They did not give their names so theh parents can’t be prosecuted.
The newspaper then gave a roundup of other recent cruelties by children – one had cut a kittens tail off- but you do n not want to hear about any more I am sure.
How can small children behave like this ? It seems so unnatural as most children love animals and especially baby animals. What on earth can be going wrong for them to be so incredibly lacking in empathy? I don’t know what the background of these children is of course. Perhaps they have been ill treated themselves. If these children behave like this now what kind of adults will they be? It is frightening to imagine how they will treat their own children one day.
I feel really drepressed about this case.
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I guess we know what those children will be like as adults… They need therapy. Torturing animals is a sign of antisocial personalilty disorder and not far from being a psychopath. We can look forward to a huge upswing in serial killers.
Yes it is a worry isn’t it?
perhaps a camera at shelters might be wise. it is more about helping the children who are being taught by potential abusive parents that teach their children to abuse animals also.