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Is this weird or am I being too serious? *Content warning- animal cruelty* edited by MNHQ

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Discoprincess6 · 12/06/2025 15:02

Hi please tell me honestly if this is me being too serious or am I right?

I love animals and never want to see any being harmed. I have my own cat who is my little shadow and best friend.

I have a new friend (6 months give or take.) She knows I love animals and how much I love my cat.

Anyway, she keeps saying how much she dislikes cats and is going to skin mine when she comes to visit. I laughed this off.

she sent me a vid where an animal was being mistreated and I asked her not to send me anything like that, sort of laughed this off.

She told me she previously went to a festival and left her dog home alone without no one coming to feed it etc for 4 days. She gave the dog up eventually. I didn’t comment.

Last night she sent me a video of two rabbits all well and fluffy at first then the video cuts out and then two rabbits skinned and put on sticks appear, they’re then cooked and eaten.

I politely asked her not to send me anything like that. She said I’m a meat eater so shouldn’t be bothered. I said I know I am but I don’t want to see videos like this.

is this weird? She hasn’t said she’s joking but seems to find winding me up like this amusing. I’m rethinking my friendship???

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hydriotaphia · 12/06/2025 15:08

I would end this friendship. She sounds horrible and maybe dangerous.

something2say · 12/06/2025 15:08

That is disturbing stuff and you are right to be shocked and reconsider the relationship.

I dated a chap once and I was at my friends and mentioned the fire pit in his garden and then the dogs, and he replied 'Put the dogs on the fire?' VERY shocking thing to say. He did not last long with me, and this was a pattern of bad things to say.

I would get out of that friendship quick sharp. No use wasting your time.

yestothat · 12/06/2025 15:07

Of course it is weird. It’s weird not to be able to recognise it is without asking others too

FloraBotticelli · 12/06/2025 15:07

Of course it’s weird. Stop engaging with her.

Drummend01 · 12/06/2025 15:06

Run. They are not a true friend.

MiddleAgedDread · 12/06/2025 15:05

That's horrible, I'd block her number.

VirtuousGathering · 12/06/2025 15:05

She sounds like a psychopath. Why would you think you were being 'too serious'? If I tell a friend to stop sending me something, whether it's animal mistreatment videos, Trump raving, or clips of people having their blackheads squeezed, I expect them to respect that.

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