kitty in a bad home

**dab_20** · 11-27-2005, 01:45 PM

My best friend (Kayla) has a 9 year old brother and a cat. Well this cat has turned out really mean because the brother is so mean to it. It will meow and start walking towards the brother (Dylan) and Dylan will slap it on the head. He will run over to the poor thing and hug it really tight and the cat will bite so Dylan slaps it and then locks it in the bathroom. I feel bad for this poor cat

**kimlovescats** · 11-27-2005, 02:37 PM

That is horrible! Someone needs to smack that child a time or too. Where are the parents???

**Laura's Babies** · 11-27-2005, 02:45 PM

Those kind of children NEED to be taught how to RESPECT animals and I couldn't observe that cruelty without voicing my openion..... and I have with Samantha's former Mom. She would curse and slap Samantha and I couldn't keep quite witnessing that.

If you witness it again, you should speak up and say something, not attacking the child but informing him that they have feelings too and how would he like it if someone treated him like that. (Then mutter something about him coming back as a cat someday and getting a owner that treated him like he treats his animals.)

**dab_20** · 11-27-2005, 02:55 PM

Yeah I should tell him that. His parents don't care because the cat bites. I scream in my mind "IF HE DIDN'T TREAT HER LIKE THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE, THEN MAYBE SHE WOULDEN'T BITE!!"

**carole** · 11-27-2005, 03:18 PM

That is animal abuse pure and simple, it is his parent's who need to be taken to task, they obviously have not shown him how to respect animals, maybe you can talk to him nicely and show him how to handle animals, and teach him what his slack parents have not, this is a terrible situation for the cat to endure.

**moosmom** · 11-27-2005, 03:24 PM

The cat is biting to defend herself!! I see in that kid another Jeffrey Dahlmer. Kids who grow up abusing animals, move onto people. Speak up! Talk to the parents. Tell them if it continues, you'll have no other choice than to call animal control. Ask the parents if you can take the cat. Maybe you can find it a loving home, not one that is filled with abuse.

The kid is who turned the cat mean. UGH!!!