I understand some animals fear water but wouldn’t call anything I saw as abuse. Now again there may be more video I have not seen, but what I saw this just isn’t abuse. No it’s not nice but abuse? While scared nothing that I saw put the animal in danger, or physical harm.
My cat acts likes it’s being tortured when I give it a bath, that doesn’t make it abuse.
Definitely a case of selective wording and phrasing to push bias in the article, but it’s the daily mail so kind of a given .
When you give your cat a bath, it’s a very limited environment and you aren’t just tossing it and expecting it to swim. Very different. The person who rescued the cat said it was barely alive.