I, for one, don’t care to see animals gratuitously hurt or killed. hunting for food, pest/predator control yes, but ANYONE who just injures animals for the sake of doing it, whatever age, what ever culture is scum (or the child thereof). And yes, there is a wind of People for the Eating of Tasty Animals here.
I will hug him and kiss and pet him and I will call him George / “Of Mice and Men”