Sounds reasonable to me.
Cats would just be a start, then he moves on to people.
You are absolutely right.
He should have been killed when he was in high school pulling the wings off of flies.
We need to catch them early.
“Cats would just be a start, then he moves on to people.”
It’s likely she was already abused to the point he could no longer get the response he wanted — crying, begging him to stop — so this time he decided to show his manly power by torturing her defenseless cat...his final mistake.