A recent cat
snuff film that is on YouTube I find very disturbing. A cat is coaxed into a cardboard box at the
top of the stairs with a laser – the box appears to have a small flash charge
in the front of the box – The box slides down the steps with the cat in it and
then explodes in a burst of flames. I have
watched it a couple of times and the explosive fire ball does seem to emanate
from the box. You have to ask yourself,
did the cat die in the explosion or later from burns.
There is
something really sick about people who torture animals. I have known a dysfunctional family with
five kids: the oldest in jail for hitting a teenager in the head with a hammer;
the second oldest, a daughter, was sent to juvenile detention for attacking a
girl with a knife; the eight and ten year old were told by their parents to
kill a litter of unwanted puppies, so they
stuck a stick in the anus of the puppies and use the stick as a catapult to
hurl the puppies against trees – then had batting practice with the dead or
almost dead puppies; the ten year old was later sent to juvenile for beating a
classmate girl with a stick, and the
eight year old shot his six year old brother in the hip with a 22 rifle in an
argument over a video game.
I think the
most telling thing about this family was their callousness for cruelty against
innocent animals. It is an indicator of
dangerous antisocial tendencies.
I know there
is a visceral dislike by many people for cats – mostly men; and I believe it
comes from a need to control – cats being the only domestic animal that will
not bend its will to please a ‘master.’
Men sometimes have such strong dislikes for certain animals that they
will kill them; but torture for fun is another step beyond the mere
unacceptable.
We are
omnivores, descendants of scavengers, so meat eating is part of our
heritage. People no longer need to hunt
for food, but still kill animals for ‘sport.’
However, hunters kill fast and do not torture.
As omnivores we still scavenge for food,
except now we go to McDonald’s for a triple cheeseburger instead of feasting on
the carcass of a dead wildebeest left by a lion pride.
It does
speak to the callous nature of the human race when we see kids or animals
allowed to get hurt so that it can be filmed and placed on social media; but
torturing an animal for fun is a whole other aberrant behavior beyond our
omnivore or calloused instincts. It
speaks to a twisted and dangerous personality.
the Ol’Buzzard
