Never ever torture animals!. I remember back in Cali, this one Hmong family had a mentally challenge son who'd can't sleep at night but will be asleep through out the whole day. He was already around seventeen when I first saw him one night at a cousin's house, he loved pots and pans and will banged them very loud when ever he gets the chance to. Later on after we moved, I heard story that his parents took him to see a shaman and he told them that their son is actually the black cat that the wife had torture and left to die in the garden back in Laos. She was bored than so she grab that cat she saw at the garden that day when she was a kid, she hit it with a stick, tie it up to a tree and than throw rocks at it, and finally she stick a stick from the cat's mouth and it came out from the other side (you know, the behind). The cat didn't die, she hanged it on a tree and went to eat launch with her parents, came back and the cat was gone. Yeah, many years has pass, she's change and all grown up and got married and the past finally caught up to her. The shaman said that when she left the cat on that tree, the cat wasn't happy so it already went to heaven and waited in line for it's turn to take revenge and after all those years it finally got proof from the heaven to be reborn mentally challenge for the girl to take care of for the rest of her life.