Recently saw a news story where policemen pulled over a man and heard meowing coming from his car. Upon looking in the back of the car, they saw a cat covered in oil and seasoned. The man stated that he was going to eat the cat because it was being selfish.

I'm pretty sure that guy was incredibly drugged up or something, but. Um. I don't even have to comment on that.

As for the original story, I'm not sure if that's worse than the people who just keep buying pets and then neglect them as they get older. Because I have seen instances of that, and often pretty gruesome ones (old dog becomes incredibly sick with pus pouring out of its eyes; owner doesn't take it to the vet because she doesn't care).

I have also heard of people who apply this concept (new pets = cute! old pets = ugh) to their children. There's just about no limit to how ffffffrazzled up people can be.