This disgusts me. She should have been using kittens.

This made me laugh.

As a side point (not commenting on this particular case --haven't seen the video, and I don't endorse sadistic cruelty of any kind), but the rage over dog or cat killing always baffles me. Drowning, for instance, used to be an acceptable way of euthanizing unwanted kittens or puppies.

Lower animals are lower animals. While dogs and cats are cute domesticated furry friends, I don't understand this assumption that gives them more rights than other creatures.

Yup, and burning at the stake used to be an acceptable way of disposing of unwanted witches.

Maybe some people just like them more?
Perhaps some people don't lump living things into two categories - human and other?

Might it be that dogs (and cats to some degree, I guess) have been an integral part of human life for millennia, performing duties that were, and still are, a necessary part of human life?

One might even suppose that it all comes down to anthropomorphism, and dogs and cats are easily subject to anthropomorphism.

Thing is, people still euthanize dogs and cats.

Honestly, I'd prefer a river than having to pay tax money or however animal shelters are funded to get all lethal-injection fancy about it. I don't know, is shooting a sick dog Old Yeller style still acceptable?

I have a few categories:
Human.
Non-human but cute/fascinating/pretty and worth observing for a few minutes.
Non-human and tasty.
Non-human and vermin to be killed immediately if encountered.

Yes...but even after all those millenium, they still weren't protected like that in decades past. Drowning kittens on a farm was common practice even as much as 20-30 years ago.

Yeah, I suspect this is true. I have an issue with it, but it's probably correct.

I figure whatever animals little girls are drawing en masse, they're the ones most subject to anthropomorphism.

I think its sad, but criminal? Maybe, maybe not...I think the anthropomorphism thing is truer than we might like to think.
It never ceases to amaze me how we have so many other causes worthy of people being outraged and taking action over that get ignored or put-off or just talked about and not done, but God forbid someone hurts a puppy or a kitten...people actually will DO something about it.
I've never quite understood that.

I initially read this as "whatever animals little girls are drowning en masse," which alarmed me.

Apparently the trolls at 4chan are doing something useful for once their existence and making it a community project to find out who she is.

Wow. This is very close to my point--and I didn't expect that of you.

If humanity could ever agree on a "worthy" cause, we would be in a much different place today.

I wouldn't call it "useful", but it's interesting how 4chan seems to be aligning itself with PETA. They helped identify that woman who threw the cat into the trash bin.

A gunman with a possible explosive device strapped to himself entered the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, Md., Wednesday afternoon and was holding a “small number” of hostages, police said.

“I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it,” the alleged manifesto reads, adding:"Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.”