Who here tortures animals?

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If you are really that angry hit your legs or a pellow or something... thats what I do. Its not your dogs fault your upset.

I used to smack a dog around.

I stomp spiders and wreck anthills.

Sometimes I pick on the cats, I don't hurt them, I just do stuff to drive them crazy. (putting tape on their paws is fun)

My exwife used to shake her teddy bear violently when she felt frustrated. (Glad we didn't have any kids.)

You should never intentionally torture an animal. However, I'm all for killing ants, spiders, roaches, rodents, and such "pests". But doing so purely for pleasure will warp you in ways you don't want.

As for "torturing" without really meaning to, and wishing you could stop: Always set your mind to the scale of the particular animal. For instance, I have a medium-sized parrot (about 1 pound). They're supposed to live for 60 years, yet they are very fragile, compared to dogs and cats. So I have to be careful at all times around it. Sometimes it'll peck my finger as what I would call a "negative communication". Neither an attempt to injure me, nor a hateful gesture -- just "I'm currently displeased with you." (Parrots are very complex both mentally and emotionally, and their communications have a very wide and sophisticated range.) I find that, when I "peck" back at her beak with the hand she pecked, and do it in the way and amount of force that parrots normally use, this of course doesn't hurt her, OR even annoy her really. She simply accepts and understands my "communication" back to her.

So, long story short, always interact with animals on their scale. Don't hug a dog as hard as you'd hug a person. Many dogs (probably males more than females) like to rough-house, and play and jump around you in a rowdy way, and it's easy for humans -- especially children -- to accidentally use to much strength with them. Of course, the smaller the pet (as in my case), the less safe physical interaction is for it, so that's one thing I miss about no longer having a dog. (My ex took him, but that's okay.)

ahahahaha

And here I am, afraid to get a dog because I don't think I could give it a nice enough life.

There's a balance to be found here. Dogs need leadership and a certain amount of discipline, but it should always be at an appropriate level. Cats like to be teased sometimes, too, but it should always be in fun.

I am disgusted by anyone who is deliberately cruel because they find it enjoyable. That's sick and repulsive.

I love watching ants rebuild. It probably is pretty nasty though.

Cats are made to be tortured - at least the way that you're talking about. I love tickling their ear fur.

I have only tortured an animal out of moral ignorance and not through sadism or the enjoyment of hurting the animal.

Once when I was 5 or 6 I was curious to see if I could push a knitting needle through one ear of the cat and out the other. As I tried to thrust the needle into the cat's ear it just hisssed out loudly and scratched my faced badly.

I went screeming to my mother and showed her what the "mean" cat had done to me.

Last edited by paulsinnerchild on 30 Mar 2007, 9:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I dug up an ants nest and squashed the queen when I was a kid. It wasn't a very nice thing to do.

No. In fact, I flipped out and had a near-violent outburst in my 5th grade classroom when the raccoon died in "Where The Red Fern Grows". I had a similar outburst in middle school over some fox being killed in a movie. Forgot what the movie was, though.

I was taught at a Catholic School who taught us that "animals do not have souls" so I thought it is OK to do that. If fact stacks of kids used to put fire crackers in the ants nests and blow them to smithereens.
In fact I was taught "a cat squeeling when you stand on its tail does not feel pain because it does not have a soul. It only squeels like a machine squeels if it is not oiled, and a machine cannot feel pain because it does not have a soul"

What nonsense they used to teach up in those days and I was gullible enough to believe it.

Grrrr religion

If you make any noise through a long tube it scares the crap out of them. Elephant noises are the most fun. The interesting thing is if I pick up a long tube near Cow Kitty now she starts to run away.

My mom's dog has an Unatural fear of things that shoot. I mean, I can understand with guns and such, but even little toy ping pong ball shooters. He is also terrified of getting water sprinkled on him. She got him from the pound, and I suspect he was abused somehow.

It was kind of fun to torture him like this, but he'd slink off, and I'd feel pretty damned miserable about it.