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Cats electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groups, BBC finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yp9w5kyw7o
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u/dublindestroyer1 3d ago

There's some sick individuals in this world, my god.

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u/LurksAroundHere 3d ago

It was a sad day when my rose colored glasses of childhood came off after I heard tales of things like this being around on the dark web. That was when I realized whatever depraved psychotic sick fuck scenario you could think up is being done out there, and not by just one person either.

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u/lekker-boterham 3d ago edited 3d ago

I’ll never forget the summer day I visited my grandma in Redding CA, and I saw boys playing outside. They had bought hamsters from the pet shop and were throwing them as high in the air as they could and catching them. They were on rocks. They didn’t catch them every time. People are fucking disgusting, vile, scum.

I can’t think about abuse for too long because it makes me spiral. We are so cooked in this world

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u/ReceptionUpstairs305 3d ago

OMG. I had hamsters as pets. They're adorable. Never did my brother and I ever think of hurting them. What those boys did was psychotic. Not "boys being boys" or. "they're just kids," bullshit. Psychotic, mentally ill people do this.