Wait a minute.......it is OK for people to pierce the ears of an infant child, bob the tails of certain dog breeds, etc..........but this is illegal??
My friend told me a story about his grandmother once. She had a LOT of cats running around her farm. When new kittens were born, or when a stray found its way into the "family", she'd grab a cleaver and take the animals to a stump.....where she hacked off their tails.
He asked her why she did this and she sternly replied, "I don't like tails".
Another story of cat abuse as relayed by my friend LunchMoneySurf.
HIS friend had family in the country and they accumulated a lot of cats. The woman loved the cats, the man...not so much. Every so often, when the woman went to town, the man would grab a shotgun and walk around blasting every cat he could put a bead on.....it was mass slaughter; after which he'd bury the cats.
Obviously the woman would notice that a number of cats were missing and he'd explain it away with lies.
Anyway......when my friend's friend visited once, the old man was starting his truck and it backfired loudly........at this, the dozens of cats in the area all took off like their asses were on fire.