Maybe the saddest kitten picture you will see (Malaysia)

These are two photographs of the same kitten taken in Malaysia. I don't know who took photographs but they are on Twitter. They were tweeted by an individual or group on Twitter with 803,000 followers. That's almost a million followers. I have a terrible sense that they are using these photographs as commodities. 

Maybe the saddest kitten picture you will see (Malaysia). Photo: Twitter.

All I want to know is what happened to this kitten? Was the kitten rescued? What is going on? I don't want to see kittens like this used to improve a group's Twitter feed. It's a very sad photograph. It shows a kitten alone, giving up, abandoned. You wouldn't expect this kitten to have much more than a day or two to live looking at this photograph. 

Maybe the saddest kitten picture you will see (Malaysia). Photo: Twitter.

Why did the person photograph the kitten? Why didn't they just pick him up and take him home and care for him? Do we have to photograph every single thing we see? Do we have do have in the back of our minds whether something we see will make a good tweet or a good social media post on Facebook?

Nowadays, it seems that everything we do we photograph. Everything we see we photograph and try and obtain some hits on social media with it. We have got to feed that monster. That voracious monster needs a constant stream of words and photographs and videos. 

You can never stop. You must always make Facebook and YouTube bigger and bigger. In the meantime kittens are dying on the street because they were abandoned or born to an abandoned mother who had not been sterilised. 

How many kittens die like this not long after birth? We just accept it. It is just another sad, interesting photograph on social media. The person who took the photograph should provide a full record of what happened and how they saved the kitten. We don't get that. We get a cold photograph. An unemotional record of a lonely, sad, uncared for, depressed, starving, dying kitten.

NOTE: It has occurred to me that this photo was set up. It could be. Take a kitten off the street and use them as a 'model' in sad lonely place. Did that happen? No idea. But it might have happened.

'Sneaky' stray cat tries to 'steal' dog's food. Sad video.

This, for me, is a sad video. It appears to be in a country other than in the West but I could be mistaken. The dog is tied up with a chain and clearly lives outside the home in his dog kennel and provides security to the family. An incredibly unfulfilling life of great restrictions and limitations. It is cruel in my book. This sort of human-animal relationship is over. Humans can do better. It requires education. Ignorance is a huge ball-and-chain on humanity's progress.

Stray cat tries to steal dog's food. Screenshot.

The cat is a stray and hungry and so tries to "steal" the dog's food without success because the dog wakes up and chases the cat away, which may be a good outcome because dog food is not good for cats. It's okay on a one-off basis but eaten regularly it would lack sufficient nutrients for a cat. The cat would become ill eventually.

I hate to see dogs tied up like this. It is banned in some countries because it is inherently cruel. It is the product of human ignorance and insensitivity towards animal welfare. Further, stray cats are also a product of human failure. 

There should be no stray cats in an ideal world. In a better world this dog would be living in the home he is meant to protect and the cat would be living with him, cuddling up and enjoying his life. What we see in this video is a symptom of human failure.

Note: This is a video from another website. Sometimes they are deleted at source which stops them working on this site. If that has happened, I apologise but I have no control over it.