Today my friend told me her cat came home last night with very badly injured legs. (Truthfully, I don't think domesticated cats should be allowed outdoors, but that's not the point of the story.) For some reason, her reaction and a few of our friends' reaction was "it must have been a neighborhood kid." While that may be the case, they said it in a way like this is normal kid behavior. It is not!!! Harming an innocent animal is indicative of other psychological problems in a person. If a person can harm an innocent animal, then that behavior can escalate into more violent behavior. I don't understand how anyone can just blow such behavior off just because the age of a person.
Below I'm adding links to a couple reads on childhood violence toward animals.
Psychology Today article
article on animal abuse and youth violence
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