Animal Abuse

[Thunday Man]

Have you ever seen a person hit or abuse an animal? Well yesterday, I did. My friend hit his cat in the face. They claim its the most evil and mean cat, but its because he does so much bad things to it. It liked me, because I was nice to it. But it wouldnt even go near my friend, the owner of the cat. Later it was on the dresser, and he just smacked it off. I got pretty mad at him, and yelled at him, but he didnt care. We almost got in a fight. The cat can't fight back, and it didnt do anything to him, so whats it going to do? Nothing, it cant. I found it very lame, very stupid and very inhumane that he does this. I cant beleive my friend would ever do this.

Have you ever witnessed it? If so, what did you do.

[Linus]

I do hit my cat on the butt if it does something I don't want it to do. That's discipline though. I don't hit the cat every time I see it.

[TheAbominatrix]

I've always reported animal abuse to local authorities, ASPCA and all that. Usually they dont do much. It makes me sick the way people abuse animals, I dont understand the kick they get out of it. I live in the sort of neighborhood where it goes on a lot.

[Enoki]

Cats r teh cool. Dont be mean to the kitties! It makes me angry!

[Tokki Wartooth]

There a lot of traits I don't like in people, but the only one I refuse to tolerate in anyone I know is cruelty to animals. Abuse to animals is a sign of a truly evil person imo.

[Erdrick Holmes]

My mom once picked up my cat and threw her accross the room because she was sitting on the kitchen table.

[Belethdolien]

i have seen lots of people treating their animals bad... the worst thing was a guy that locked his horse in a small room, and didnt clean out or anything... it looked like a mess,a dn the horse was really skinny... i was there with my own horse, and when i found out it was about time to leave, the guy who owned the horse came.. he sent his dog after me. a dobberman. it ran after my horse for 3 km or sumthin.. later, i got to know that the guy isnt allowed to have any animals, because last time he had a horse, he shot it in its legs, so it dies, slowly and painfull, for no reason...

[Psychotic]

My brother and his jerk of a friend once played ping pong with my hamster, when I was like, 7.

They smacked him into the net and he just curled up, not moving, and then they claimed he was faking it. It really did suck.

[Shlup]

When I was in elementary school my babysitter had a horrible husband, who she eventually divorced. He would entertain his son by picking up his daughters cat and hurling it against a wall (the boy didn't enjoy it, but at ate six didn't say anything to his daddy). I only saw him do it once and I believe I started crying for my mommy.

The closest thing to animal abuse I've done is flick my bunny on the nose when he bit me. Just lightly, since they have sensative noses. Its how you train rabbits not to bite, and after only a couple of times he never bit anyone again that I know of. I miss my bunny. ;_;

[DocFrance]

People who abuse dogs should be publically executed.

[PeTeRL90]

Well, I really didn't witness it, but last year, two kids tied up a Pitbull to a lamp-post and set it on fire. It was everywhere in the paper, and I kept telling myself "Anybody who is that sick doesn't deserve to live."

But the good thing is that the dog survived. I'm not sure how, but it did.

[fire_of_avalon]

A few years back, these guys tied fireworks to this tiny little dog and set them off. Since it was so publicized they got more jail time than usual and the dog was adopted after all the surgery it went through. I hope someone sets those guys on fire.

[Rye]

Animal abuse is pointless and sick. The kind of people who abuse animals grow up raping little girls then killing people.

[Evelia]

Animal abuse is horrible. When I was eleven or so (I feel absolutely HORRIBLE about this) I kicked my cat because he bit me. I didn't have shoes on, and it wasn't that hard, but I still feel really bad about it. I would never, ever hurt an animal.

[Fuzakeru]

Animal abuse is a major peeve of mine. I have a black lab named "Thunder" and I love him to death. Even though people tend to laugh at me for it I honestly consider him my equal. ( But I don't make him wear sweaters and feed him steaks . . . that's just creepy. )
It saddens me to think of ever hurting him. When he does something wrong I just over exaggerate my voice and yell a lot. He gets the point. However, when he was a pup I did swat him on the behind with a newspaper.

. . . there is a point where it's ridiculous though. Namely - PETA. They tend to overract over things that are just ridiculous.

Has anyone ever watched that show on Animal Planet with the cops going around and saving neglected and mistreated animals? . . . that shows makes me cry sometimes.