This past week there have been several news reports about animal abuse here in my area also. One was with a man who beat his daughter's 3 mo. old kitten to death right in front of her. The little girl is 10 years old. The other was yesterday and the headline just read "Cat Mutilation". I can't tell ya about the article because I just can't bring myself to hear or read about something like that in detail. It really does make me physically ill to read and hear about this kind of abuse. It brings on depression so severely that I just can't function. I just get so upset with humans' inhumanity that it scares me and if I dwell too much, I just can't handle it