Cat repeatedly thrown 60ft from a balcony

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Link . This is filmed on a mobile and sent around to mates.

This is so awful. I agree that kids that commit these offences towards animals will more than likely grow up to be violent to children or people in general.
The sentence is just typical of the law in this country, anywhere else and he would of got longer.
that poor little cat. From what I could see from that awful video clip she looked like my little cat. I can't imagine how anyone could do such a thing.

That makes me feel sick! I can't imagine how someone could do this and not think it's wrong???There are some sick B.....ds out there and they sould be made to suffer for their wrong doings!

got a problem w/prison overcrowding? build more prisons!

i also think prisoners should work for their upkeep and prisons should be as self-sufficient as possible. i don't see why this constitutes a breech of their human rights. it's beneficial to them, keeps them occupied and can even teach them a new trade.

But it doesn't matter how long you put them in prison, if while they're there the causes of their offending behaviour are not addressed and they come out less likely to offend.

Unfortunately, that's unlikely. We have a bloody awful recidivism rate.

Not much chance of anything being addressed in what will probably only be 8 weeks though, is there. Even if our prisons were places where the causes of such behaviour could be addressed.

Absolutely. The sanctions which are available to judges are still so primitive and ineffective. 4 months in a yo unit doing bog-standard yo things is so not going to even begin to tackle the danger this person represents.

I have taught kids who show all the signs of psychopathy in the past. Nothing is done, up to, and including, the time they enter one of her Majs establishments.

I swear to you that you can spend 30 mins in their company and tell that something is wildly wrong with these kids. And what is done? Bugger all

Sick bastards. Hope they get what they deserve oneday. (i'll leave us each to think what that is, know what i'd like)

How depressing that must be MB. To be fair to this bloody awful govt (and that's hard for me to do ) that's why schemes like Surestart, Connexions, P2B etc. They are so aware of the need to get to these people before they start acting out their dysfunctions, but of course it's explosive because it goes to the heart of the debate about the relationship between the individual and the state. And at what stage the state has the right (and/ or duty) to intervene.

Probably a question of money as well.

MartianBishop, in your experience are these possibly psychotic children born or made?

I couldn't post on this yesterday because I had just had a phone call from the vet to say that my cat hadn't been hit by a car as we thought, but shot!! So I was very upset and to read about this was devastating yesterday.
My cat will be having an operation tomorrow or tuesday to try and fix the leg (the bone has shattered into 10 small pieces) or amputate it

Callisto, an excellent question, to which I have no answer.

But as other have posted, cruelty to animals at a young age is a good indication of serious mental problems.

money time and effort have to put in when they are young if they are to stand any chance of recovery, and we as a society will benefit as a result

The old nature/nurture question. I used to think it was all nurture but now I am not so sure.

Sparkly - I am so sorry about your cat, there truly are some vile people out there.

Sick. Makes me wonder what their parents teach them - if anything.

Cat cruelty stories like this always get to me because my first kitten had to be put down after some boys got hold of her in the park next to our house and swung her round a pole by her tail, breaking her tail/back.

at my old school the kids used to try and get the seagulls to eat somethingh that i won't name but is commonly available- apparently it makes them explode although I've never seen it.

Also taught the boy who went on to hack an old lady to bits in a ritual sacrifice and the psychologists and people said they'd never seen a ntyhing so horrific. He started by torturing small animals

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holy shit, pixie! was he psycho when you taught him?

Oh god, i knew i shouldn't have clicked on this poor poor cat, words just fail me tbh, makes me feel sick.

"He started by torturing small animals"

It has always been my belief that people who is cruel to animals is always cruel to humans too, be it to people's feelings, other people's bodies, etc.

That's why I find so difficult to understand that so many mums don't interfere when the toddler is being rhough to the family pet. IMO it starts just there and goes on for generations. I once met a woman whose most funny childhood achievement (funny just to her eyes, I hope), was taking gold fish from the fishtank and swallow them every time her mother mentioned they were going to have fish for dinner, she also keep getting a new chick every sunday as she normally killed them by midweek (they were sold in Sundays everywhere when I was a child). Now, 30 yrs later, she has told me that her DD loves her gold fish so much that she likes to place her toys and food in the tank and even takes them out to pat them. Aww how cute!

expat- there was sopmething 'odd' about him. His eyes. But then again retrospect is a wonderful thing. His art teacher said his drawings were bizarre.

Very true Chandra, respect for others should mean respect for all other living things and cruelty is dispicable whether it is pulling the wings off a fly or throwing a cat off a balcony.

'It has always been my belief that people who is cruel to animals is always cruel to humans too, be it to people's feelings, other people's bodies, etc. '

There is currently a growing body of research to back up this theory, Chandra.

"Love the plant, and then the insect, and then the animal, and then your fellow man, and then man, beast, bug and vine will..."

you've all already said what I think - that being cruel to animals should be taken much more seriously than it often is - not just because it's unspeakably cruel and horrible, but because if you can treat something defenceless that horrifically, where will it all lead?

I have never got a particular story about a cat out of my head that made me burst into tears at work a few years ago. It really haunts me

and this 'craze' of filming things on mobiles - deeply wierd. Like they are totally disconnecting themselves from the act and it's all become a computer game or a film.

and as chonky says - imagine your child doing this.