We can care about both. And caring about both doesn’t take from the other.

Well duh!!! I have enough compassion to fill a small yogurt container and I just used it all up on this cat. It takes a while to refill, maybe then I’ll care about cops murdering POC.

“I come from a ranching family in Mexico (though I was born here), so we don’t really see animals in the same way that the dominant group in the US sees them.”

A very good friend of mine is a vet in another country.

Assuming this took place a few decades ago, common methods of euthanasia then included electrocution or similar techniques. Euthanasia by injection was only popularized there fairly recently. Plus, they would have had to pay someone to do it. This bitch had completely free access to euthanasia drugs - all she had to…

She is a veterinarian and she has taken an oath to do no harm. I know plenty of people who do/would do this type of thing minus posting it on Facebook like an asshole. Taking a life shouldn’t be something you advertise like this especially when you are in a profession that has a focus on maintaining the health and…

Apparently it wasn’t a feral cat, it was being fostered by an elderly couple. So someone who went to college specifically to learn to care for animals can’t tell the difference between a dangerous un-neutered feral tom and a pet? I’m no vet and I can tell the difference a hundred yards away, and unless she’s a world…

So, if I care about cats being killed, I’ve used up my empathy and can’t care about people of any color?

Well, as long as it was traditional.

I come from a long line of rural farmers and you’re right about the difference in attitudes—but I can’t think of any of them who would kill a cat for no reason and then gloat about it. They’d assume, at the very least, that it was a neighbor’s cat (and a working cat at that, helping with pest control) and wouldn’t…

Seriously. My family are cattle ranchers and we fucking love our animals. Just because you're in a farming profession doesn't mean you need to be sociopath killing every animal in sight. OP has some fucked up ideas.

It’s kind of disgusting to see some cultural relativism bullshit used to justify killing housepets. This was somebody’s pet. My mother grew up on a farm. They killed animals for sustenance, not convenience. They didn’t take joy in killing their animals. They had cats to keep down vermin. The attitude portrayed by this…

Yes. You're a better sort of person because you don't think of animals as anything but a tool and their deaths as something to celebrated with graphic photos on Facebook.

Did your dad go around showing people photographs of himself grinning and holding up the defenseless animals he’d killed? Because, if so, your dad might be a sociopath.

This isn’t disparate perspectives. The point is that the vet thought it was highly fucking hysterically funny to kill a cat. I don’t have some fixation on dogs and cats as fur babies, but I respect the fact that they’re fellow dwellers on this planet. I also recognize that they can’t always do for themselves what may…

We didn’t have a farm, but we had a few acres and we raised most of our meat (beef and rabbit). We killed animals or had them killed to provide us with food. We didn’t celebrate it, LOL about it, or make jokes. It’s a standard part of life.

A life is a life. It’s disgusting, no kind of about it, that you could disregard an animal’s life simply because it’s no longer “useful” to you. And while I understand the need to protect one’s livestock on a ranch, there is a huge difference between that and killing someone else’s pet for fun.

it’s disturbing to see people who are unable to be outraged by more than one thing.

Wow, what binary thinking. And so many assumptions. Consider for a minute that there is, in fact, overlap between people horrified by the killing of this cat and those horrified at the killing of POC by police without consequences. You know, because people are complicated and many can understand that the business of…