@Tee and Bacchante: I can relate to what you're saying, especially you, Bacchante, regarding the kids who burned the kitten to death. Something similar happened with me (not getting burned to death, but cruelty to kittens); only with me, it was from my own fucking mother. She told me once about a time when she was a girl, she found a kitten, or kittens. I don't remember if she said she was with any friends or not. Anyway, she/they buried the kitten, leaving its head exposed. Then she/they went fetched the lawnmower. She/They proceeded to start up the lawnmower, then run over the head of this kitten/kittens, of course killing it. Her reasoning? She doesn't like cats. That's it. This struck me as unbelievably fucking cruel, made worse by the fact that it was my own fucking mother who did this. There was no regret in her voice, nor expressed by her. I honestly think she feels none. Fucking bitch. She doesn't seem to realize, what she did was more than cruel, it was fucking evil. I think there may have even been another incident regarding her and a kitten, maybe even regarding burning one to death, but I don't remember. There's a black spot of hatred in me towards her now for this. This isn't the only thing she's ever done, either, only the other stuff was towards a human (my dad, actually, who's paying for it now). It was murder, but in the form of abortion. This, of course, wasn't the only thing, but it was the major thing. Fuck... Stupid, evil bitch.
In contrast, I have found a stray kitten in the past, and I took care of it. Not in the sense that I brutally murdered it, mind, but that I fed it and got its strength back up. I wanted to keep it, but in the end I was forced to give it up to an animal shelter. I was perhaps ten or eleven.
I can't believe I just typed all that for everone to see....
But it was to say, I know how you feel, Tee and Baccharte.
