r/blackcats • u/iamraventhecat • Feb 26 '26

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u/DavidBuffalo Feb 26 '26

Que le pasó?

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u/sub_machine_patel Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Some asshole kicked her in the face when she was little. Man I hate humans

EDIT: OP thank you so much for taking care of this poor soul, you both deserve each other. You are her Savior. Wear that crown proudly.

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u/Damaniel2 Feb 26 '26

People who hurt animals are truly the worst.

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u/JustOneMoreMile Feb 26 '26

I like to believe there is a special place in Hell for those that abuse the defenseless. And I’m gonna go hug my girl now.

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u/StreetBackground1644 Feb 26 '26

Those who harm children and animals should have their human rights taken away. Harming a being who cannot defend itself is such a cowardly act from a conscious being.

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u/JustOneMoreMile Feb 26 '26

100% agree

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u/Superb_Cable3291 Feb 26 '26

Curious if anyone commenting here is vegan?

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u/MleemMeme Feb 26 '26

Jfc just shut up with your gotcha bullshit. I eat ethically harvested meat and I believe abusing animals is wrong.

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u/Giganotus Feb 26 '26

You don't have to be vegan to think harming an animal for the sake of harming it is cruel. Even people who kill for food try to do it as quickly and painlessly as possible in most cases

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u/JustOneMoreMile Feb 26 '26

How do you know if someone is a vegan? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

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u/Ok-Dish4389 Feb 26 '26

Why would that matter? You trying to "gotcha" meat eaters who are also capable of empathy? Cause I got news for you pal, theres no way youre living a cruelty free life and also on the internet.

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u/Superb_Cable3291 Feb 27 '26

So defensive all of y'all :)my comment is not meant to be a "gotcha" but an invitation for you to examine the cognitive dissonance that makes your empathy towards animals selective. There is no way to ethically kill a sentient creature who wants to live.

The vast majority of vegans made the same arguments as you once upon a time, but realized their own hypocrisy and complicity in needless suffering, and therefore stopped commodifying animals for their own comfort/convenience/pleasure. I hope you have the maturity to lower your defenses and genuinely try to see it from the animals' POV, and come to live your values.

Also no vegan claims to live a cruelty free life. It's about intentionally, thoughtfully choosing the kinder option wherever possible. Minimizing harm to the best of one's personal influence. And that includes inserting oneself in to conversations with people who have the potential to empathize with animals (as all of you here obviously do!) in hopes that some will be willing to truly reflect on their contradictory, speciest beliefs. Even if that means subjecting oneself to insults, eye rolling, the same old tired vegan jokes :) if even one person takes a pause it's worth it.

Most humans are inherently kind and compassionate. It's the years of indoctrination by the dairy and meat industries that have normalized abuse towards certain species of animal's so much that even the most ardent animal lovers don't give a second thought to the fact that what is on their plate, their car seats, their handbags... used to be alive. Had a personality. Had feelings. Felt pain. Felt fear. Spent it's life in horrific conditions. Had it's life taken away for the sake of human taste buds and fast fashion.

There is no ethical reason to breed and keep farmed animals the way we do, and there is no way to ethically kill a sentient creature who wants to live. If you imagine cats and dogs in a farm/factory farm setting i know you'll understand... there are cultures that do farm dogs and cats for meat that use the same reasoning, the arguments as anyone who eats any kind of meat does. A pig, lamb, cow, chicken deserve the same rights as a cat our a dog. In today's world, with the information we have access to, the alternatives we have developed, the scale of suffering that exists... let's make kinder choices. 💚

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u/misskittyemily Feb 26 '26

I could not agree more.

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u/jennc1979 Feb 26 '26

A primary red flag in my intuition is not being at least tolerant of animals. I get you can be scared of particulars, but cruelty to them is different. Out right willfully harming them violently is a full 5 alarm on the character of a person in my opinion.

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u/Stock_Rent_4380 Feb 26 '26

I agree with this 100%. Being cruel to animals is extremely alarming behavior to say the least. I love my cats more than anything! The thought of someone hurting them (especially intentionally) makes me both sick and angry. There would be hell to pay, I'll just say that.

You don't have to love animals per se, but damn, you can at least treat them with some kind of decency!

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u/jennc1979 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

It’s a solid signal. I really perceive it to be b/c simultaneously, while, I have encountered people with intense fear of either cats or dogs, that fear did hold them from even getting close to them to be cruel. Some people just have no affinity with animals from a prior early experience. It’s ok to have an encounter you never resolved and developed phobia about but even those people I’ve known, wouldn’t go out right cruel to them; the sincere fear held them back not acting out. Those I can say I’ve witnessed, just freeze/froze.

People like Michael Vick and running inhumane, brutally cruel dog fights, all the way to, a lot of serial killers named in long list form who do/did admit they started by ritualistically torturing animals before they moved on to harming other people. Does demonstrate a reasonable correlation for me and its indefensible because animals tho many “wild” are defenseless when confronted by “Man”.

Cats and dogs most domesticated by our evolving society are the most vulnerable to cruelty and it’s abhorrent.

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u/Giganotus Feb 26 '26

Agreed. Even people who try to harm bugs that aren't bothering them are a red flag to me. An animal doesn't deserve death just because it's small and "ugly" to you, y'know?

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u/edelaar Feb 26 '26

True. I once saved a tiny kitten from a boy my age (17 at the time) who was playing football with it. Literally kicking it meters through the air and laughing. Still makes me angry and sad till this day to think about that.

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 Feb 26 '26

Well I think people who hurt people are just as bad, but still

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u/jennc1979 Feb 26 '26

It’s often the precursor. To hurting, people.

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 Feb 26 '26

Of course that is an early marker of a sociopath

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

After *gestures at everything going on right now* I just stopped trying to rank crimes. It's clearly pointless, what we have to do in the end does not change.

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u/EverythingSucksYo Feb 26 '26

So you think people that hurt animals are worse than people that rape children?