Samantha the difference between you and Tina is that you are thinking rationally, I believe Tina is incapable of doing that at present in her life, it is only through Sandra's extreme compassion that I too have come to that understanding.
Tina is not beyond help by any means, if she continues with her counselling and starts to feel better about herself, she may not need to turn to instant gratification as she does with animals right now, sadly it is the poor defenceless animals who suffer the most here, as it has been put to me, this is cyberworld and we can only do so much, it is up to the individual whether they heed our advice or turn us all off at the wall.:(