My granfather talked about kids who tied tom cats’ tails together and threw them over the clothes line. The cats killed each other.
He laughed when he talked about it. Everyday thing....
BACK before computer games.
My mother rescued a cat that was being tortured in a clothes drier. The cat went insane ever since.
Kids used to poke sticks at cats. They used to throw rocks at them and laugh. Every single day in every town.
Thank God for computer games.
Where the heck did you grow up!
I grew up in the country and while it did happen it was rare, fortunately.
I grew up with a kid that was particularly mean. For snow ball fights he’d put a rock inside. As kids the 3 Stooges was popular, and I believe Larry took two fingers to poke one of the other two in the eyes. It happened so fast you did not notice his fingers actually struck the eye brows instead of the eyes, being harmless. Well this guy went for the eyes when he mimicked them.
Anyway, I watched him climb down from a water tower, that was probably 90 feet in the air. I asked him why he was up there. He threw a cat off just see if it landed on it’s feet. He laughed. Of course the cat was dead. There are some very cruel people out there.