You find out that your father used to drown your childhood cat's litters when you were young. You remember eagerly anticipating the?

Well I would be greatly upset, but it would depend on where I am at in life and what kind of relationship I have with my father at that time. Hopefully I would have a great relationship with him and we could talk about the reasons he felt he had to do this. Being upset will do nothing since it is in the past, keeping things going in your life like this is not healthy.

Now on the other hand if I was mad at my father then I would probably still be upset and just expect it especially if we don't have a relationship. Animal abuse can not go on but it is in the past, but if he was still doing it I would call animal control and write petitions to get him in jail.

If it happened, I would be greatly saddened and sick. I would withdraw from him immediately..This is an act of great cruelty and malice. Only a psychopath is able to do this repeatedly.

I would see him differently and I would question everything I know about this man. Did he hide even deeper secrets? Perhaps he had done other act of cruelty as well.

I'm so glad my father is an animal lover and will never do something like this.

That is inexcusable and I would probably cut that person off of the majority of contact with me, at least for awhile or until that person breaks down and shows me he or she has learned their lesson and feels remorse over it. That is a rather dispicable thing to do, but we must be compassionate in a firm, nonenabling kind of way.

It makes me suspect this man is capable of great cruelty and deceit. There are people that will house the kittens and find them homes. This is just cruel.

While this has never happened to me personally I recall when my mother told me that some farmers got rid of kittens by stuffing them in bags and throwing them on the roads. I would be sick if I found my father had done this (I know he had not, our cat was fixed). I would be disgusted that they had not simply taken the cat to get spayed.

Even as a young kid I knew about spaying and neutering. Whats done is done, but had my father resorted to this rather than being responsible earlier on, it would have sent mixed signals and to be honest I think it would make me wonder what other things he did that I didn't know about.. of course I know my dad could not and would not have done this.

This makes me feel very very sad and angry at the same time. It is really a very cruel act and cannot be excused. This makes me think that he has no sympathy even for those innocent kittens.

Such acts should be punished and condemned in any case and whatever the reasons might have been for doing it. I really feel sorry.

We lived on a farm when I was little. We had a barn cat, all others were drowned by my Dad when they were born. Usually when we were on holidays.

Sounds exactly like this scenario. As children, we were upset that it happened but I remember Mum saying all the cats killed the birds and hassled the lambs and that we had a cat for hunting mice already. We got over it As an adult - I feel for my poor Dad who had to do this because he couldn't have his farm overrun by cats but wanted to keep his children happy.

I know he didn't enjoy it. He was never that sort of person. But a farm is a farm and working animals must work.

He couldn't have given them away then, every farmer I know did this sort of thing....there were never enough homes or vets back then to take them and it cost money we didn't have.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.