2 NOTICES: WARNING AS THIS PICTURE IS NOT PLEASANT. Secondly, in some ways I am sorry to publish the picture. Yes, I am reluctant to do it. I have blurred the child’s face and the text on his shirt to anonymize him although Facebook has not.
I know how people become sick of this sort of picture. It is unsettling and distressing to a lot of people and we become tired of them. However, set against this genuine concern I feel that we have to discuss and criticise the actions of people, particularly kids, who think it is okay to be cruel to animals. The outdoor cat, stray or domestic, is always a target for shooters (people who like to shoot and kill animals for pleasure).
Of course cat haters and hunters would argue that this boy, who looks about ten-years-of-age, is doing a great job and should receive praise. He’ll go on to shoot many more cats, some of whom will be someone’s cherished pet and he’ll enjoy hunting bobcats and anything else that moves provided it isn’t human although he may not stop at humans.
Sport hunters would say they that he ‘euthanised the cat’ and provided a service. BS I say. It is just plain cruel and if they don’t realise it I feel sorry for them. A part of their brain is missing. This photo is particularly disturbing because it is a boy. As Empty Cages Worldwide said:
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it!”
Disgust
Yes, this child is no longer innocent. His father has taught him to enjoy killing rather than to respect animals. He has been taught that it is okay to shoot animals for fun and disregard: the pain he is causing for his fun, the fact that the cat might be a pet, the inherent immorality of killing animals for pleasure. I feel sorry for the boy. He’ll live with his peers who will in the main see his behaviour as normal. But outsiders to his community, enlightened thinkers, the decent people of the world, will look at him now with sorrow and when he is an adult with disgust.
You are full of BS. I don’t value cats over humans. I am not a cat extremists. I try to be a decent person who believes that we should respect animals as we are no better than them and neither are we superior to them. I agree with PETA basically. The invasive species tag is misleading. As there are 80 million cats as pets in the US giving pleasure to people you can’t tag them invasive. Look up the term. Finally hunting for meat is what they did in the 19th century. You are disguising sport hunting for pleasure with hunting for food and your father taught you. I can imagine what he is like. Now doubt he believes animals are there to serve humans and they don’t feel pain or have emotions. And you laughably say you are a conservationist! All the killers say this. It is a joke.
You presume wrong. I’m neither evil nor a sports-hunter. In my youth I, my father and brothers and my father hunted and fished for food. I still fish, but seldom hunt nowadays, and never for “sport”.
I take no pleasure in the pain of any living thing. I am a biologist and conservationist who understands Felis catus is a deleterious invasive species which must be removed permanently and lethally from our environment for the sake of ecological balance, biodiversity and public health. They have no place in any natural assemblage of animals or balanced ecological system anywhere in the world.
Your “cat extremism” has moved you to declare that you value cat lives over humans’, as have several of your sycophants on your page. I call that evil, as bad as the Nazis or ISIL.
All I can say looking at this child is future prison inmate. Good job parental units. not.
Totally abhorrent for children to take pleasure in killing animals, whether for sport or other reasons. Karma has a way of evening the score, just not as quickly as we would hope for. 😱😠
I presume that you are one of those evil sport hunters who takes pleasure in causing pain to animals.
Now THIS is my kind of “pictures of cats!” WTG, sonny!