RGR Seagoon. So this is a bit of a thread-thread confusion?
And Viking, AFAIK the animal-treatment law, - regarding pets and also animals used i.e. in movies, - in the USA, - are or were the stiffest in the world.
Had I been there though, I would have killed the kitten right away. And then turned on the girls in a bad mood.
Oddly enough, the other day, I was given a kitten. A farm-cat, and adding it to a pool of 2 in the same age. Beautiful little thing.
Anyway, the little bugger had been raised in a very confined environment. So, it didn't mingle with the others, not did it watch it's own step, - where there are cars, horses, riders, bicycles, holes to fall in, and big tractors.
I was getting worried, and told everyone to watch the cat, and tried to get it to stay inside (we have an old cabin, inhabitable, where it could have stayed as a "house" cat).
Little critter still walks around, and I myself had the "honour" of squashing it under a tractor doing roughly 1 mph, only an hour later !!
Little one is mortally wounded, - i.e. a semi-squashed head, no further description needed. So, I after inspecting, I killed it immediately.
I am no particular cat person. And I have killed a lot of animals, probably the highest number is cats. But this one got to me, and I will never forget it.
The silly thing had got out, and chased me to the tractor. It could still walk after being squashed, and me doing unusually careful driving because there were so many kids around, spotted it immediately. I jumped out, and the little thing went straight to me. zig-zag and bleeding etc.
It's just a cat. It was just a cat. I relieved it from it's pain, and it almost broke my heart, it ruined my day, and most of the week for that sake.
Maybe I'm getting old and soft, but I can not at all fathom the mind behind torching a living kitten and laughing about it. A mixture of idiocy and sadism I say again. A good lesson for the girls would be to get burned a bit. But since the media is on it, their burn will be there allright.
All sad really.
