*shocked...Grrrrrrrrrrr

[GreyhoundGirl]

oh, does it?

[Argranade]

Ohhh that son of a .......... idiot!!!!

How could anyone be so crewl nature is so beautiful its horrible people dont respect it and love it.

[DrKym]

Greyhound Girl you have only touched the tip of the Iceberg. As part of my schooling and my PhD, my thesis was on serial killers,what makes them tick what switch gets turned off? or for that matter what switch get turned on? what allows them to follow through with macabre fantasies? I can cite hundreds of studies that give this same info on animal abuse and some of the serial killers profiled i.e. the Green River killer began with animal abuse at 4 yrs old. Most parents try to gloss over kids being "rough" or "loving" it to death but hundreds of other studies have been since the the early 60s proving that this behavior seen in kids clearly points to an abusive situation it may be at home,school, at the hands of a sibling or sitter or uncle/aunt.
Believe me when I tell you my own step son is being monitored for any abnormal behavior with our own animals as we know he was abused in his mothers care. He is recieving counseling and appropiate mental and medical care, but if he shows the early signs then we know that we need to probe further to help him he is 6. It is a very very real phenomenon and one that if seen shlould raise flags in any concerned adult.