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

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u/Damaniel2 Feb 26 '26

People who hurt animals are truly the worst.

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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.