The link has been established many times, with serial killers especially, who started with animals in their youth, and later migrated to people. We, and others working on the “Cat Torture” issue have warned against the perpetrators in China and elsewhere (as this material is spread globally via Social Media) eventually performing that same migration. Obviously, that does not mean the animal abuse is negligible so long as it stays there. Far from it. On the contrary – as, it has been said many times before, that the more helpless a creature, and so a victim, is, the more deserving it is of compassion. There can be no more helpless party, in a human society, that largely denies them any rights and/or equal consideration in respect to freedom from pain and suffering, than an animal.
One such example, which I remember well – as I have seen the material (meaning: videos) at the time – concerning a now 42-year old native of Canada, is one “Luca Rocco Magnotta”.
He came to fame, if that’s the phrase for what he did, when he murdered and dismembered his boyfriend in 2012. He was eventually apprehended in Berlin, and is currently imprisoned, for life. What I remember him best for, though, is …
.. which, in 2019, was the subject of a “True Crime Miniseries”, called, “Don’t F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer“
It cannot be stressed often enough that the nice guy next door carrying the little old ladies’ shopping upstairs might be a raving pervert, spending his time torturing animals, and hatching plans to do same to people. Not all of them are as obvious as this one last year ..
An owner reportedly left a heavily-pregnant cat to die in a bin bag, an animal rescue centre has said.
Bosses at Little Paws Rescue, based in Clevedon, North Somerset, said an investigation has been launched after one of the “most horrific” incidents they have had to deal with.
They were called on Sunday after a member of the public found the dead cat on a popular walking route, called the 100 steps, in Hanham, South Gloucestershire.
Imogen Scofield, from Little Paws Rescue, said “heartbreakingly” the calico cat tried to claw her way out of the bag and went into labour after being dumped.
But due to the circumstances, none of the kittens survived, the animal charity said.
Ms Scofield continued: “It is the most upsetting thing we’ve had to witness, this poor cat didn’t deserve to suffer like she did.
“There is help out there and they could have contacted a rescue [centre] like ourselves who would have helped.”
Ms Scofield also confirmed the charity is asking people who live near the 100 steps to bring forward any CCTV from Sunday.
“The authorities are involved too, but we will do all we can to find out who did this,” she added.
PETITION
They Abandoned a Pregnant Cat in a Trash Bag. Then, She Went Into Labour.
A heart-wrenching and unimaginable act of cruelty has recently come to light in Hanham, South Gloucestershire. A heavily pregnant calico cat was abandoned in a plastic bin bag, left to die alone and in agony. Tragically, the cat went into labor before she passed, but none of her kittens survived. This poor animal suffered a horrific and unnecessary death – one that could have been easily avoided if the owner had sought the help and support that is readily available.
Sign this petition to urge local authorities to investigate this heartless act and to begin a public education campaign to inform the community about the options available to those with unwanted pets.
According to the organisation called to the scene, the cat attempted to claw her way out of the bag, desperate for life and a chance for her kittens. Sadly, her cries went unheard, and the kittens, who could have been saved, perished along with her.
This tragedy underscores the need for better public awareness. There are shelters and organizations that provide assistance to those in need, and no animal should ever suffer because of a lack of knowledge about these resources.
We need to ensure that people understand that they have options. No one should feel so desperate that they resort to abandoning a pet in this inhumane way. Sign this petition today to make sure that no more animals have to suffer like this again!
Many people scrolling through various social media sites are completely unaware of sinister channels and private groups that promote and distribute graphic and heartbreaking content of cats and other animals being sadistically maimed, tortured, and killed for views and money. Tell social media platforms to shut these accounts down!
Between July 2020 and August 2021, the Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition documented 5,480 instances of animal cruelty content found on YouTube, Facebook, or TikTok, which didn’t even include private groups or conversations specifically set up to exchange cruelty content. However, just those few thousand videos were viewed a staggering 5,347,809,262 times.
In 2023, multiple horrifying videos of cats being tortured appeared online, causing global outrage. Investigative work by Feline Guardians found that the virality of this content led to subsequent cat torture rings producing and distributing hundreds of new torture videos that circulated across Telegram and other social media platforms.
Between May 2023 and June 2024, an estimated 500 cats became victims of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of members of this cat torture network, with 31 cats killed by a single person.
Further data collected shows an alarming 300% increase in cat torture cases between December 2024 and early 2025, particularly originating from China.
This organized group of criminals was found to be mass producing videos, largely in China, to take advantage of a lack of animal cruelty laws, sharing them on social media, creating websites on the dark net to distribute videos, and using Chinese social media sites to promote these websites and recruit members. To the frustration of Chinese activists and others working to shut this down, less than 1% of abusers have been investigated by authorities.
Dozens of groups on Telegram with thousands of participants are exchanging as much as 100+ of videos daily of horrifying content. More troubling still are the attempts to encourage children and young adults to watch and commit animal torture themselves.
Tragically, this has been found to be an international issue with cruelty content originating from many countries with multiple platforms involved, and it’s been linked to other criminal activity, such as child sex abuse material, terrorism, animal theft, and extortion.
Platforms that allow users to engage in the production and distribution of this content must take action to stop it.
… please refer to the page for contacts/suggestions …
Published: 20:33 BST, 1 May 2025 | Updated: 21:43 BST, 1 May 2025
A Florida couple took their elderly cat with them on a hike in Utah, but after ignoring warning signs only one of them made it out alive.
The bodies of Matthew Nannen, 45, and Bailee Crane, 58, were discovered Tuesday by park visitors in Bryce Canyon National Park after they fell about 380ft below Inspiration Point, according to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office.
The couple, who appeared to be living out of a U-Haul truck, are believed to have fallen to their deaths on either Monday night or early Tuesday morning, police said.
Although there was a railing at the top of the cliff, police said Nannen and Crane climbed over it. There was also snow in the area that made for slippery conditions.
When their bodies were located, authorities also found a female tabby cat inside a ripped and dirty black soft-sided carrier, the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary said.
The cat, who has since been named Mirage, appeared to have fallen with her owners but ‘seemed to have weathered the fall fairly well,’ the no-kill shelter told the outlet.
When Mirage was brought to the shelter, she was ‘matted and a bit sore,’ but during her examination she was very friendly.
Judah Battista, the chief sanctuary officer with the shelter, told DailyMail.com Mirage suffered two fractured canines and two fractured ribs from the fall.
Right now, the team there is focused on ‘getting her well and providing a safe and loving space for Mirage.’
When asked if they would put her up for adoption down the road, Battista said the shelter plans to see if any of the couple’s extended family would like to take her in first. If not, they plan to have her adopted.
Video and images shared by the shelter showed several employees taking great care of Mirage and nursing her back to health.
Battista said they have taken animals in before that have been a part of horrible incidents, but the shelter has never seen anything ‘quite as dramatic as this.’
Nannen and Crane had just made their way to Utah from Arizona and are permanent residents of Florida, authorities said.
The exact cause of the incident remains under investigation.
‘Detectives are considering all possibilities, but preliminary investigations have not been able to definitively determine the cause of the fall,’ the sheriff’s office told KUTV.
DailyMail.com contacted the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office and Bryce Canyon National Park for more information.
Inspiration Point is known to give spectators a ‘birds-eye view of the world’s largest collection of rock spires called “hoodoos” found within the Bryce Amphitheater,’ according to the national park.
News of this tragedy comes just months after a beloved and heavily-pregnant California school teacher died after falling while on a hiking trip in Greece.
Clara Thomann, 33, had been traveling through Plakias, Crete, with her partner Elliott Finn when she fell during a hike and died on December 23.
Thomann, from Santa Barbara, was six months pregnant at the time, according to SFGate. She was also a teacher at the Dos Pueblos High School.
According to The Greek Reporter, she had slipped and tumbled 50 meters down a gorge from a hiking trail near the Preveli Monastery in the Rethymno region.
The outlet reported that she was pronounced brain dead less than a week after the fall, which caused her to suffer major injuries to her skull and chest.
Tragically Thomann lost her unborn child in the fall, with 21 firefighters and rescue teams battling to reach her from what was described as an inaccessible spot.
Her family traveled to the country to visit her before her death, with Veronica Katz writing on her CaringBridge page, seen by SFGate, that she ‘loved helping and teaching others.’
According to her social media, she had worked as a physics teacher. Her family have announced they would be donating her organs.
There is a war being waged between the scientific establishment with its backers in politics and industry, and “us” – that is people who reject vivisection, or the use of non-human sentient beings for research – when it is forbidden to “use” humans for like experiments. The main reason why animals are used, of course, is their inability to prevent people doing it, and a legal framework – pretty much worldwide – that allows this.
We have covered this issue on the site many times.
https://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk is a UK organisation that lobbies the cause of the vivisectionists, big pharma, and who else profits from this, by pretending to further public understanding as to why this practice is necessary and continues to be so.
Lies lies lies. Naturally. Further evidenced by the picture library, where you see NOTHING of the horrors we know for a fact happen daily in labs – only think of HLS, in the UK.
Now, Germany is a Speed Maniacs’ paradise. This is commonly known. All the time terrible accidents happen, caused by people racing their fast cars on motorways without speed limits. Increasingly even in traffic-calmed areas inside cities, with speed limits of 50 km/h. The German automobile industry has no interest in any speed limits ever being established, and due to successful political lobby work things remain as they are. Being a driver myself in this country, I daily encounter reckless drivers, and their often aggressive behaviour.
Sadly a huge number of animals fall victim to their unthinking, uncaring, and often intentional conduct on the roads. And also, sadly, the German “ADAC” (“Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil Club” – General German Automobile Club) advises its numerous members accordingly … against due consideration for the (smallest and) most vulnerable animal road users.
Two recent accidents reported in the news, with drivers trying to avoid hitting a pigeon and a squirrel, were commented accordingly by police/the ADAC.
“… The police point out that, even in road traffic, human life always comes before animal life. Braking for small animals such as rabbits or squirrels should only be performed if it does not endanger vehicle occupants or other road users, the police explain. “
Smaller animals (e.g., pigeons, rabbits, cats): Do not brake or swerve abruptly! The protection of human life takes priority – risky maneuvers can lead to serious accidents
Larger animals (e.g. deer, wild boars, dogs): Controlled braking is permitted and required to avoid a collision as far as possible – provided that other road users are not endangered.
(Source: ADAC)
Now, accidents happen – we are all aware of that. And the least one should do is stop and see if help can be given. Or, should that fail, to remove the body from the road – the decent thing to do – lest it be run over time and again by other drivers (once read an interview with one, German, who enjoyed aiming for the heads of prone animals on the road, alive and dead).
Should I just keep driving or stop? As harsh as it may sound, stopping to check on a hedgehog or squirrel that’s been run over makes little sense. Small wild animals are usually killed instantly after a collision with a car or are so severely injured that they can no longer be helped. These include, for example, foxes, hares, wild rabbits, squirrels, hedgehogs, songbirds, and game birds like pheasants. Well-intentioned rescue operations on the road, especially in poor visibility or darkness, are unlikely to be successful, according to ADAC traffic expert Christoph Hecht.
Well at least they advise, here, to look after a cat or a dog. But small wildlife clearly is screwed …
In the event of an accident involving a dog or cat, you should stop in a safe place, turn on your hazard lights, put on a high-visibility vest, and secure the accident scene with a warning triangle. Then you can go to the injured animal. If the animal is dead, you should pull it off the road. If the injured pet is still alive and injured, it must receive medical attention.
As regrettable as every dead hedgehog is, risky evasive maneuvers endanger people and are disproportionate. Car insurance companies also consider emergency braking that leads to an accident (a rear-end collision) to be disproportionate. This can lead to the loss of benefits.
Hedgehogs that have been hit by a car are usually beyond rescue. Anyone who still wants to try should be especially careful, especially in the dark and in areas with poor visibility, as there is an increased risk of accidents with even more serious consequences.
No one wants an attempt to save an animal life on the road to end in serious harm to other parties, or their property. However, personally, I disagree with most of this. And as regards property – and here the all-important car (to most Germans anyway) – that can never have priority over an irreplaceable life.
In my personal experience not all small animals involved in road accidents are necessarily dead or beyond saving. Sadly the ADAC seems to think that to try is not worth it – so potentially leave them to suffer and die slowly of their injuries.
As concerns wildlife that is listed in the hunting law in Germany, which goes for most species, it is strictly forbidden to remove an injured animal from the site of the accident, even with the intent of having it receive medical attention or for transport to a wildlife station. It is considered poaching, and the rule is to wait for the local hunting tenant to dispatch the animal – even IF it would otherwise have survived. For vets it is illegal to give such an animal medical attention, even to euthanise it!!
I have personally witnessed such an incident a few years ago, with a young wild boar, having fled a drive hunt in November, and running across a busy road in its panic, being hit by a car. The poor animal lay in the middle of the road, trying to rise and could not, while the accident driver looked on. I pulled the creature from the road onto the verge. Police arrived, and it was decided to summon the local hunter to deal with it. What followed was the longest half hour of my life. Being left alone with the animal, I tried to stand it up on its legs, so it could flee. I knew what was to come. However, the back injury was too severe, and I’ll never forget the panicked gasping, the rolling eyes seeking a way out …
The hunter arrived.
He shook everyone’s hand, pulled a pistol from his jacket, aimed and shot. Once, twice – in the chest. The poor animal screamed in agony, and with two bullets in its chest, was yet alive. Shamed with his inability to do the job right, the hunter grabbed the hind legs of the boar and pulled it out of sight, in the dark, to the verge of the field. No doubt, there, out came the knife …
We all stood there, no one reacted. The two police officers should have put a stop to this, but did not. After this, I swore to myself: never again will I watch such an “execution”. I’ll do whatever needs doing, fuck the law.
On many other occassions I also came upon animals injured on the road, or dead. Only yesterday, within a hundred yards of each other … a cat, and what, presumably, was a deer, judging by the amount of blood. The latter already removed by the hunting tenant. The cat, laid at the roadside by a lady who got out of her car in front of me. The accident driver had clearly kept going …
On another occasion, in the August of 2021, I travelled through a local village, and came past a hit squirrel in the middle of the road (speed limit!), with cars passing, but no one stopping. I parked, got out, and found the little guy still alive, twitching, with eyes open, and still having the hazelnuts it had carried in its bloody mouth. I took it and carried it to my car, with many passing in theirs, gloating ..
The local vet I saw could only euthanise it, so severe were the head injuries.
It’s a brutal world out there – and getting worse every day. The statement, “human life always comes before animal life.” and all that results of it, is, I think, THE main cause of most of what we see here on WAV being done to fellow animals.
Green, OH – On April 11, a 57-year-old Ohio man mutilated three newborn kittens: cutting off their tails and using the dismembered body parts to torment a woman he was in a dispute with. According to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, Bret Stalnaker got in a verbal altercation with the woman earlier in the day.
The woman was able to retreat into a detached garage and Stalnaker began sending her threatening text messages about harming nine-day-old kittens. The deranged man continued sending texts, describing how he intended to cut off the tails of the kittens and their mother.
Stalnaker did more than threaten – he carried out his cruel deed, chopping off the tails of three tiny kittens, putting them into a container and then throwing the container at the woman he had been fighting with.
Sheriff’s deputies arrived at a residence on East Turkeyfoot Lake Road where they found Stalnaker in a van, which he lived in. Stalnaker was ordered out of the van and threw an object, which was later identified as a loaded .45 caliber pistol.
Stalnaker was arrested on multiple charges, including resisting arrest, animal cruelty, obstructing official business, and assault; he was booked into the Summit County Jail.
What this man did is unconscionable and he absolutely MUST be held accountable. Imagine the pain and suffering he inflicted on these innocent, young kittens. Consider their terror and confusion as this man lopped off part of their body! If he can do this to helpless animals, he is absolutely capable of inflicting pain and suffering on other living beings. Please add your name to the petition to help Animal Victory fight for justice!
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WHY THIS PETITION MATTERS:
We, the undersigned, demand Bret Stalnaker be held accountable for his appalling behavior. We collectively insist that Stalnaker NOT receive a plea deal – he must be prosecuted for each and every law he violated! Research has consistently shown a strong link between animal cruelty and human violence. Individuals who commit such heinous acts against animals often pose a threat to society as a whole, as animal abuse is frequently a precursor to other violent crimes. Failing to hold this man accountable not only denies justice for the innocent kittens he tortured and maimed but also endangers the community at large. It is imperative that we send a clear message that such cruelty will not be tolerated.
Individuals are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. Animal Victory relies upon the authorities and the court system to determine guilt or innocence.
Note: The kittens survived the torture and are being treated by a veterinarian.
World Animals Voice 