Rural Amish, or just sick people in general? I can see not liking cats, and culling them with a .22 rifle or something along those lines. Letting a couple of pitbulls have a go at it while you watch in enjoyment is a special kind of messed up.
Yeah. I”m with you on that. A lot of it really is just cultural stuff. Cock fighting used to be a big thing in a lot of areas and still is in some areas. I’m big on treating animals as if God put me in charge of them.
i.e. be kind, and even if I’m gonna eat one, end its life like throwing a switch - humanely.
Frankly, that’s the way I want to go. When I took that second breath of anesthesia before heart surgery two years ago I knew that if I didn’t survive the surgery that would have been my last moment before I woke up in the hearafter - and I was ready for it.
BTW, I shot a Robin with my new BB gun when I was in 6th grade (1966). It haunted me for quite a while. But I know other people have different sensibilities about animals. I treat them the way I think they should be treated, and I (and God) grand others the freedom to treat them the way they think they should be treated.
There are a lot of 'special kind of messed up" people around these days.