KIM Kardashian has been slammed for her “horrible” treatment of an animal.
Fans discovered her resurfaced photo they instantly called “disturbing” if not “evil.”
Kim Kardashian has been slammed for her ‘horrible’ treatment of an animal
In the ‘sinister’ resurfaced photo she never took down, she gripped a baby kitten ‘harmfully’
Kim, 41, posed with a furry friend in a way that didn’t seem friendly to her fans.
“Pic from my shoot yesterday…good kitty cat!” she blissfully captioned an image from 2010 on Twitter.
The then-Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, three seasons in, wore a low-cut black top in a dressing room.
She let her long then-brunette down over her shoulders and firmly gripped a black kitty cat by just the scruff of its neck.
According to the SPCA, “To pick up a kitten, people should gently pick them up with one hand supporting the front/chest area, and the other under his back feet/bottom.
“It’s also important to never pick up a kitten by the nape of his neck.”
It appeared that was exactly what Kim was doing, as a flood of furious fans soon noted.
The unsettling image wound up on Reddit Sunday, where 100-plus users could not believe it’s still up, or that it happened at all.
‘DISTURBING’
“Omfg that poor cat,” one began.
Another wrote, “That’s not cool. A lot of people think you can lift a cat like this, but you shouldn’t.
“It’s less harmful when they’re young and have less body weight, but it’s not necessary.”
A third clawed, “Kim is an as**ole for this. That cat should have scratched her face.”
As a fourth lamented, “Poor baby, you can see that it’s stressed and unhappy.”
A fifth wondered, “Imagine if she lost her grip. Yes, moms carry kittens like this when the kittens weigh a few oz, not when they’re that big. And they do not dangle them 5 feet in the air!”
A sixth called her “sinister”, while yet one more wrote, “Why take a picture grabbing a kitten like that?”
“It’s a bad message and it doesn’t make any sense and it’s… kind of disgusting.”
“We all know this family’s track record with pets,” bit one more.
SAD-LE SCENE
Many Kardashians have pets but they are not as regularly flaunted as their respectively famous figures.
Kendall Jenner, 26, recently shared an Instagram Story grinning while on horseback, seemingly multitasking.
The video followed the millennial as she wore her hair in french braids in a white tee and cowboy boots while riding a dark brown steed.
But as she rode her horse, she was still walking her leashed dog Pyro, who followed behind and even stopped as they kept going.
The Doberman Pinscher, per UK VOGUE, has been a part of the family since 2018, and fans could not believe the “dangerous” video.
“Poor dog! you’re gonna kill that poor thing, so dangerous to walk him on leash while you are riding a million pound horse, sigh,” one fan rumed as the video rode to Reddit.
As Horse Rookie blogged, walking a dog while riding a horse is documented to be dangerous.
“Putting a leash on your dog when you’re trail riding might seem like a good way to keep him from wandering off, but it’s actually a really bad idea.
“The leash could become entangled in your horse’s legs, entrapping your dog, and creating a very dangerous situation for everyone. You could also be pulled off the horse and get injured.”
Kendall also once shared an image of her pup in a restrictive prong collar, and a fan worried on Instagram: “Prong collars should be the last resort used to train your dog!”
MONKEY BUSINESS
Kim and sister Kourtney Kardashian came under hellfire in 2018 with animal rights groups after posting videos of themselves playing with marmoset monkeys.
“They’re licking me, while wearing a skimpy white bikini,” Kim said in one Instagram front-facing clip as the monkeys ran around the interior of her $60M home.
As Babe.net reported, “it is illegal to own a monkey as a pet in California, and the acquiring of a monkey involves killing entire families to obtain the young.”
Rutgers University’s Dr. Erin Vogel told the outlet, “Celebrities should spend more time promoting the conservation of the endangered habitats of these animals instead of taking ‘cute’ pictures or videos for Instagram. It is appalling.”
PETA told the Daily Mail that marmosets naturally live in the trees, and need “large, tight-knit social groups.”
It’s unclear if Kim and her sister were looking to adopt the monkeys but the wild species is not meant to be domesticated.
They ran across her furniture in one image, and appeared to be crying out – they did not appear supervised by a handler.
UNLEASHED
Meanwhile, Kim owns three Pomeranian dogs, named Saké, Soba, and Sushi – though they rarely are seen in photos or make her modelesque, consciously curated Instagram.
She was also got a white kitty cat in 2021 that isn’t seen very much.
Kim was earlier gifted a cat in 2012 named Mercy by her ex-husband Kanye West but after a few weeks she developed allergies to it, and was forced to give it away.
The cat sadly died soon after at four months old.
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