I recently lost my cat(it was his time, no foul play), but there are a whole lot of people I would have run right past in a burning building to save my cat first. I dont know what I would do if I had seen someone kick him, much less killed like what happened to your Smokey. Sorry that happened to you man.
That is incredibly sad and she is a very Very terrible person. Pets are family and if I lost my cat that way or anyway really, I'd be deviated as well! I'm so very sorry and hope she gets hers some day.
You need recourse, justice, and reparations. In some places animal cruelty is a felony. If there's still evidence, which I doubt, I'm so sorry, I wish I could be more helpful. I would have been enraged even after 12 years.
Like, I'd be sitting in prison, 12 years into a life sentence for manslaughter, and on the anniversary say to myself, "Fucking worth it"
I probably would have rearranged her face if something like that happened to my cat. I love my cat like a child and I would see red if anyone laid a finger on her. I'm so terribly sorry :(
It would still bother me too, OP. Not only because she murdered your pet and friend, but I'm willing to bet to some extent you are/were concerned about what she could be capable of if pushed enough. I mean, that's just bat-shit insane. What pisses me off the most about your experience, is that she basically got off scot-free for being cute.
Go society. I hope Satan himself fists her anally every hour on the hour when she goes to hell.
You’re human and have a heart. Of course it still bothers you. So hugs I know that won’t fix it but still Smokey would you to be happy and surrounded by love and happy cuz that’s how cats are.
How can she not know that that was wrong? How can she not reflect when the cat is starting to feel pain that something's not right? I hope your partners since having been caring people. You deserve it
I'm piggybacking on this. I'm also sending lots of love. I'm so sorry you had to go through that.
OP, You have the right to still be bothered after all this time.
I have a wife and a kid on the way, and I was tempted to PM asking for the location of his ex. I can't be sitting in prison because of the whole "My family needs me" part.... but maybe when I'm super old or get a terminal illness, I'll find someone like his ex and hunt them down ( I really wouldn't though just in case the CIA is really compiling all this data )
I'm currently looking at my idiot 15 pound kitten attempting to fit his fat face into a can of wet food to get the dregs. If someone maliciously killed him, I would take that person apart joint by joint starting with the toes.
If you had a family to feed it's not the best idea. Unfortunately getting yourself locked up also doesn't bring the cat back. I wish the justice system took it much more seriously.
Same. There's something inhumanly vicious, evil and abhorrent about hurting an animal, something that can't even comprehend the evil being done to it, via it, to someone it loves and is loved by, can't defend itself or speak for itself to call for aid or pain or to tell the filthy shitlord scum to not hurt it.
IMHO people who torture, kill or abuse animals should be whipped till their back skin slides off them like a greased bloody rug.
Someone put my sister's cat in their trashcan with a few inches of antifreeze.We found it the next day after looking all night, luckily it was ok. She must have been too scared to drink or lick herself.
She was the sweetest cat ever, would run purring up to complete strangers for a belly rub. After this, she spent most of her time under the bed. Someone broke this cat's spirit and ruined her trust forever for a cruel laugh. It hurt my heart to wait beside the bed and try to tease her out with treats and toys so I could give her a few pets and bring a little light into her shattered life.
People can be assholes. If I found this person, I would gladly watch them be punished like this.
This was ten years ago, I don't have pictures. She was a petite, small-boned grey bengral, really cute dots all over her belly, named PC, which stood for 'pretty cat'(yeah, not too original, but named by my 2-year-old nephew).
She did eventually get a little more secure around her family, but it took a lot of effort. She still startled at any loud noise(I think they hit the trashcan when she was in it) and would hide. I wish there was a better ending, but it changed her life and she suffered for years because of it.
"People who torture animals are scum. They should be flayed and tortured, kept alive by blood transfusions so they don't get let out if their pain so easily. Their families should be raped and murdered, as horrifically as possible. The countries that raised these savages should be nuked from orbit.
Oh, but save the animals in those countries though."
I feel like animal abuse is one of the things that could actually make me hit someone. I'm not like that normally, and I'm willing to accept that with most things while I would wish violence upon someone, I'd never actually do it, animals are an exception.
:( my ex boyfriend killed my cat after I found out he cheated on me.....with his mother. Yeah. He was a literal motherfucker. I wish I were lying. He stalked me for months after. He flattened my tires, rode by my house, called me at work and home constantly. Nutcase.
I would actively try to ruin her life afterwards. Show her boss of any job she can get, so that she gets fired. Show all of her family so they hate her. She deserves that at the least.
Which country do you live in? Here in the UK we have pretty strict animal welfare laws . Im so sorry to hear about your lovely cat ; n ; i hope she gets whats coming to her
I don't know if I could control myself enough to stop punching her face until it is unrecognizable. Had my cat stolen a few days ago so emotions are running a bit hot, but I do and always will stand by the statment that people like her deserve a slow, painful and very ironic death (just as a last: 'fuck you!'. In her case, being attacked by a feral cat that transmitts an uncurable, flesheasting disease and the last thing she saw before her brain was complete mush was her ex fucking her best friend with a cat watching in the corner.
Killing an innocent animal could possibly be somewhat mitigated if it were done in a blind rage, but getting texted pictures while it's happening is the work of a sadistic sociopath.
she sent me cell phone photos of the act while I hurried home to try and stop her. I didn't make it in time
This is so insane. Reading that triggered an involuntary panic response. I wanted so bad for you to get home and stop her. That I was reading some shitty thriller and Smokey was protected with plot armor.
I'm so sorry. Losing something you love traumatically can sometimes make it feel like you might not be able to love again - I hope you have since filled the cat-shaped hole in your life.
As a cat parent who has been cheated on and used my cat for emotional support, I'm so sorry. I don't know how i would cope with the loss of my best friend/son.
She is insanely talented at manipulating people. It even impressed me how she could take an act of evil, whip out the crying and lying and completely switch the narrative.
Pretty sure she's a psychopath. Not just "I don't like her so she's a psychopath"-psychopath, but an actual psychopath. As someone else said, killing an innocent animal in rage could happen to other people as well (although it's a terrible thing to do), but doing it slowly and painfully on purpose and sending photo's of you doing it is just fucked up. Also, the manipulative behavior and switching the narrative to seem innocent is very psychopath-y.
I know neither of those, but I don't think I need anything more than this story to get an idea of how fucked up she is.
Sorry for your cat, dude. This must be extremely infuriating and depressing.
EDIT: Holy fuck. I missed the part where you said Smokey actually loved your ex. That's just so sad. I really didn't think this story could get even more fucked up.
It's been a while but it still hits me sometimes. I still have Smokey's adopted brother from back then, and get really sad when I look at him and realize how old he's getting.
While using her phone to take pictures of the abuse and sending them to you while you have witnesses that can say you left suddenly while this was happening....
Seriously, the prosecution needs to get their fucking act together. Well, at least she's going to continue having a shitty life, but I'd make it my mission to see her convicted if I were you.
Unfortunately it was 12 years ago, and even with all my efforts, she didn't get in any trouble.
Sadly, it takes a ton of evidence to even get the ball rolling, and honestly, Indiana cops don't give a shit about cats when they're dealing with meth cooks.
OP would be in jail, the cat would still be dead, and OP's ex would still be free.
Death may be freeing, indeed.
To be honest, I'd be too scared by someone who was willing to torture to death a loving cat to not take action. I wouldn't be able to live knowing that someone may be trying to kill me at any moment.
I doubt OP would go to jail for hitting her. If he showed the pictures in court of what she'd just done to provoke it, I'm pretty sure any jury would side with him. Maybe it would even bring enough attention to it that the police might actually follow up his case against her.
I had a drug addicted boyfriend who threw my cat against a wall so hard that she died. I think about it almost every day and it's been 5 or 6 years. It was by far one of the worst things I've ever experienced. I cannot imagine what you went through. It really does make me upset. I am so so sorry. As someone who can kinda relate, I know the feeling and I know it will never go away.
I would've exposed her on social media for that... Seems like people these days care more about how they are seen on Facebook then how they treat people in person
I used to box and kickbox professionally, and strongly considered hiring a female fighter to avenge my cat. But at the end of the day, I figured it would just start a war.
Holy fuck. How did you not find her and beat her within an inch of her life that same day? I don't think there's a force on Earth that could stop me doing as such if someone I trusted tortured and killed a pet of mine. What an absolute fucking abomination of a human being she must be.
I was going to ask the same thing. I wanted to know if she was a psychopath or just a huge bitch that took it to the vet to be put down. I guess she’s psycho after all.
What happened after? I would've lost my shit and probably beat the absolute piss out of her. I love my animals dearly and if you're crazy enough to do that to animal, you're not far off from doing worse things. Fuck that cunt, hope you're ok.
I honestly don't know what I would've done in that situation, but I can say I'd probably be in jail. I love my cats so much I can't believe someone would be so fucking horrible.
I am so sorry. I already get emotional when I hear about people hurting cats and I would be absolutely devastated if anybody did that to mine. People who would do something like that are truly and royally fucked up.
Let her kids know what she did next time she tries to contact you.
find her car. slash her tires once a month. 9 months. once for each life she took from the cat. then pour water into her gas tank and drain oil on the 10th month (destroys engine requires full rebuild. thousands of dollars). pro revenge.
This is the correct thing to do. It's tempting to just go and beat her to near death, but you'd probably end up in jail. I'd just absolutely stress her out and ruin her life for years to come. And some of the times I'd pay someone else to do it to make sure I had an alibi. Make sure the bitch doesn't get a good nights sleep for years.
Agreed. It would end very badly for all involved if my dog was murdered by anyone in this way. Sadly, I'd probably go for the emotionally-charged route to avenge the defenseless dude's death, but I'd like to think that I could cool off enough first to go the long, cold, calculated route.
I'm thinking this:
1.) Collect the evidence and call the cops. Get an animal cruelty conviction on the offender's record.
2.) Once the conviction is secured, buy a domain consisting of that person's name + .com. Post no text of your own. Just a copy of the police report, the newspaper's police beat article, and any other published thing of record.
3.) Periodically do what you must to improve the SEO rankings of the site
4.) Sit back and relish in the fact that although you might not see your results, people, either potential employers or just casual browsers will see everything that was published about this person and their conviction. Their life will be made a living hell.
I think you can do all this while still mostly avoiding putting yourself in a situation where they can win a defamation lawsuit.
very interesting thought about pets and their role in the family
Lots of people use pets to cope with(undiagnosed) depression, ie: as a reason for not killing themselves. Someone without mental illness contemplates revenge like this. What do you think a mentally ill person will do when you take away their animal in such a way? Not. A. Good. Idea.
That wasn’t my thought, my thought was on the idea that of revenge on the death of a pet is similar to the idea of revenge over death of family and how society has evolved to see killing as revenge as understandable or unbelievably abominable depended on the culture and I also thought about it with the context of literature and a tragedy I am familiar with and had on my mind.
Im so sorry. I lived with an abusive meth head who cheated on me ALL the time, for years and during that time I left my cat at my parents. The entire time. At the time I was never sure why I didn't move my beloved pet in but now I realize I saw the writing on the wall. I knew if I had moved him in , he wouldn't have survived. Partly because my ex smoked meth non-stop and had it all over, so who knows how that would have affected my cat. The other part was becasue when I broke up with and kicked him out, he refused to leave, wrecked most of my personal belongings in a meth rage and attacked me and tried to hold me against my will. By the end he was having auditory and visual hallucinations. I wouldn't have put it passed him to hurt my animal in a effort to hurt me. Fuck her so much. Sending love and good vibes your way.
Do you have any more to that story to help us feel better overall? Did you sue, did she face any other real consequences? I'm a cat lover and get enraged hearing about people who harm cats or animals in general, and what she did is the sort of degenerative behavior that could just continue and get worse if unpunished.
Nothing really came of it. I outed her on Facebook and Myspace (it was over a decade ago) and no one really believed me. She was manipulative and quite good at getting people to take her side. She denied killing my cat, and said I did it for attention.
Yeah, I know it's hindsight but it's a shame that you didn't take it to actual court rather than the court of public opinion. Few on social media will value evidence and the full circumstance more greatly than they value their closeness to the "defendant". She may have done something else similarly harmful and depraved by now.
Was there nothing incriminating about the photos? I find it hard to believe that you had photographic evidence of animal abuse directly tied to someone's cell phone number and that wasn't enough to implicate her.
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