Thank you for the well considered and tempered response. You are right, my daughters never knew. Women tend to deal with this sort of thing, emotionally, on a different level than men. We are just wired differently - generally speaking.
The only time I ever killed an animal for pleasure was in 5th grade I killed a robin with a bb gun. It was very traumatic for me, believe it or not. I think a lot of little boys go through the same experience and come out more respectful of animals as a natural resource. I agree with your comment about God putting us here to rule over his domain.
If one passes through puberty and adulthood and continues to take pleasure in torturing animals, they have not properly matured, although some just take longer than others. I think they are wrong, but I really don’t think the government should come between them and their cruelty to animals unless the animals are not their property or they are doing it in an offensive way - slaughtering a deer on their front lawn for example.
Regarding my kitten thing: it repulsed me at the time, but it had to be done. I bit the bullet and did it. The hardest part was inspecting to make sure they were all dead.
Why didn’t you use bullets rather than bite one?