Cares FOR, definitely. After all, they are our food.
Cares about? Yes, in that they are part of his creation.
To be honest though, I cannot presume to know the mind of God in all of this. I think the guys that did this have a problem, like when I shot a robin in the 5th grade. I felt horrible afterward exactly because it was senseless.
But I think you are reading too much into this verse. It is merely stating that God supplies all that his creation needs. It is stating nothing more than that.
Again it is to let us know that he will supply our needs and comfort us.
My main concern on this thread is that too many people want to put this thing at the level of doing the same thing to a human. This doesn't increase the value of the kittens life. Rather it de-values human life.
You write like someone with a seperate agenda or someone who is as disturbed as the sadistic perp.
No Rob, it goes way beyond that. Humans at least have the physical ability to somehow defend themselves against such assualt, as futile as it may be. Cats, dogs, kittens, etc. do not have that ability and are thus at the mercy of us humans. To not have remorse over the indiscriminate torture of such a helpless creature is a sad commentary of you as a member of the human race.