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"everyone agreed on a solution: let the cat handle it. And so, for what seemed like an eternity, the cat went to work on the mouse, slowly torturing it limb-by-
by wffurr 5y ago
"everyone agreed on a solution: let the cat handle it. And so, for what seemed like an eternity, the cat went to work on the mouse, slowly torturing it limb-by-limb. This went on for at least a day, probably longer."
Yikes. What the hell is wrong with these people?
- stickfigure 5y agoThis is "dark humor", and probably involves a healthy amount of poetic license. I found it funny. But I also butchered, cooked, and ate a rooster last weekend.
- wffurr 5y agoNothing wrong with (presumably) humanely butchering an animal to eat. I would guess you didn't pull it's legs and wings off one-by-one and watch it scream and writhe just for fun.
- ggggtez 5y ago> Former Motorola exec and entrepreneur Numair Faraz Rich tech assholes. There was other hints earlier in the article, including negging his rich friends while simultaneously humble bragging about how rich his friends are.
- Gracana 5y agoIt's like a real-life Voight-Kampff test scenario.
- hn8788 5y agoHate to be the bearer of bad news, but animals don't care about the humane treatment of the other animals they kill.
- randrews 5y agoI don't think he was expecting the cat to care, but the cat owners.
- temuze 5y agoAlso glue traps are heinously cruel.
- hencq 5y agoRight. Followed later by this gem: > And when faced with a mouse, there’s three options: kick it out, run away in terror, or catch and torture it. I think you learn more about the author than about Stripe from this article.
- Zababa 5y agoI found this very weird too. If the cat found the mouse by itself, sure, there's not much you can do about it. But giving the mouse to him and watching him torture it for a day? That's honestly very weird and cruel.
- jessaustin 5y agoHave you really never done this? This is the main reason to own cats.
- Zababa 5y agoMy cats brought me dead mice a few times, and one time I saw one playing with a mouse and didn't interrupt him. However I've never given them a live mouse to play with. I feel like letting them hunt a mouse and giving them a mouse that you've already caught and could kill quickly is very different.
- wffurr 5y agoUh yeah, I've never given my cat a live animal to torture on purpose. I also don't let it out to roam and kill all the local songbirds either. If you have a barn full of crops to protect from rats or something, then sure, use a cat as a ratter, though there might be more humane ways to deal with your rat problem. But if you're giving animals to your cat to kill for your own entertainment, then you seriously need help.
- jessaustin 5y agoWe're talking about mice. They have been the bane of humanity since the dawn of agriculture. Imagining they have some sort of moral worth is living in a dream world.
- Zababa 5y agoMice in or around my house has no relation to "the bane of humanity since the dawn of agriculture", I live pretty far from any farm, and the most they ate from me is crumbs on the floor. Wanting to kill them is fine, and I understand totally. Letting your cat kill them if he catches them before you, totally fine for me too. He hunted her, it's his prey, why not? On the other hand, giving mice that you caught to your cat so he can torture them is not in the same in my book.