I wanna hurt cute animals

I think it's the look on the animals face that makes ppl want to hurt them. Someone here said something about an animal instinct in us and someone else said it's b.c they wanna "feel like a man". I believe there's a feeling rejection when an animal is scared of you that is undermined by most people but it can really get to a person psychologically. It's fucked up but think about it. If for some reason the animal doesn't want to play with you. You might want to hurt it because you see it as a weak animal. Or maybe you want to toughen it up and you think that slapping it or throwing it around will work.

on a serious note I'm actually the same way i sometimes hug my cat really hard and i really just feel like like squeezing it so hard its eyes pop out but i don't actually want to hurt it but i do want to hurt it at the same time, but i dont actually hurt animals

Completely normal.

Humans are predators, look at our design, our eyes especially. A predators eyes are always on the front of their head, a herbivores are on the side. We are also dexterous like most predators, as well as carnivores (Omnivores technically but you wouldn't know by some peoples diets). In our subconcious, the fight reaction takes over the flight. We think we are above animals, we ARE animals.

And thusly, it is in our nature to take advantage of the situation. If a panther had a small, cute kitten in its claws what would it do? It sure as hell wouldn't protect it if it had any sense (Unless it was a cub of said panther). It is our primal urge to eliminate the competition early and get a meal out of it too.

Try it, for all we know kitten could be delicious (that was a joke, don't make me call animal control)

So, normal. The ones that aren't normal are the ones where the urge is so strong that they sort of, you know...

You aren't a serial killer. I know what you mean though. I used to love toads when I was little and I picked them up and squeezed them to death without realizing it. I was always so sad and I never knew why they kept dying until my Dad told me I was killing them.

I also tend to hug cute people harder than I hug not as cute people.

oh my goodness. when i stroke kittens i feel like i want to grab them by the tail swing them around a bit and throw them out the window. then crush then until they explode. =] because there Soooooooo cutttee! /\ - /\ i love cats though, i would never do that.

when i was little i had bunnies. i for some reason wanted to take the little tiny fluffy ones. and squeeze them. just. to death. then i got older and it went away

I don't know whether it is normal. But I was playing with a kitten and I got the urge to squeeze it in a fatal way. I protected it, and pet it for nearly an hour while it slept on me. I am also a vegetarian, and love animals. I love that kitten, and choose to play with it and protect it even though I don't have to.

I think what it is, is that some part of our heads produce whatever motivations would relieve us of any given stressor. It is extremely stressful for me to play with the kitten because I am way overprotective. And I think that part of my head just wanted to be rid of it.

I think it would only be psycho if there weren't all the other stuff in our heads keeping it in check and even bringing us to the opposite conclusion.

Haahhaa ! I have that urggee all the time. Like when i have a chick or kitten hoolding.
PERFECTLY NORMAL =]

I get the same yay awww... Kittiens are so cute I want to squeze them till the explode.

I love animals and would never hurt them BUT I was watching a video on YouTube of a baby rabbit eating a flower and as I was watching it my mind just said "Kill it". I don't know why my brain thinks that when I would never physically harm the animal. I don't know if that is normal or not.

i think its completely normal to have a subconscious and surpressed urge to kill cute animals as well as babies and small children.

ever hear anyone say "oh you're so cute i could eat you alive" or do you remember the aunt who would pinch your cheeks till it really hurt? that is the expression of that subconscious or suppressed urge to kill or hurt things that are cute and vulnerable.

I feel the same way, for no apparent reason.. I'm completely psychotic, and proud of it. :)

I alway really want to squeeze my gerbil until its eyes bulge. I don't though. Not yet.

I absoloutely love animals, and have a dog who is my baby. but i hate my boyfriends dog. I think it is so stupid, and i find myself pinching it until it yelps, or kicking it. I am horrified at my behaviour, and don't understand why i do this, as i love dogs, and have never felt this kind of feeling about a dog before. I get worked up just thiking about it, or when i see a similar dog. I dont know what to do

I've had a similar urge and have discussed it quite a few people. The conclusion I've come to is this: We live in a modern world where very few people have to kill their own food anymore, because of this we seem to forget that we are, at our core, predators, so we instinctively want to kill things. As long as you don't actually do it, it's completely normal.

oooooooooh my god. cute little fuzzy chicks, or kittens, gerbils. i bite my lips together and just wanna squeeeeeeze their ribs til they break! i'm vegetarian, and cry when i see roadkill and would never actually kill any little thing (i let spiders outside). i thought i was the only one until a friend of mine told me she gets the weird urge too.

dont' know if this is part of that, but i like to nibble the ends of my dog's soft ears. Just my teeth, and sometimes I want to just bite right through it, it feels so soft and sweet. He loves it though, and I've never bitten enough to hurt him at all. Thank god I'm "normal".

Ha. I do the same thing. I have three chihuahuas and I wanna squish them. Aaahhhh they are so cute

I'd invite you to kill My German Sheperd But I don't want to clean up your body parts, I'll join in.

I wanna squeeze them because there so cute! but they would be so cute with there guts everywhere after. . .

Ugh, if I read one more "future serial killer" response, I'm going to vomit. We've all heard this, stop regurgitating it as if you're actually knowledgeable on the subject.

Oh, I also have those thoughts sometimes... I once read about it in a magazine. People were posting anonymous stories about these kind of thoughts. Was quite interesting and recognizable... I know how it feels. When i experience those moments (I don't have them all the time, luckily), I think about what such a rude person I secretly am. I can't really help you on this subject, but I do know how you feel.

Dudes be careful Jeffery Dahmer use to hurt small animals.

You're all fucked up freaks.

What the hell? Of course something is wrong is with you and pretty much anyone else here (or they're just too damn stupid). It's bloody stupid that someone even ask this and people talk about it as if it's worth a genuine discussion. Wanting to hurt anyone and anything is not normal. You should not question if the urge is normal but try to think about why it's not normal (which shouldn't be so hard to figure out or else it's even worse).

NO!! That is not normal that's the first sign of a serial killer. Why would you want to hurt a DEFENSELESS animal?? I hope next time u hurt your cat she scratches your eyes out.

I definitely like hugging cute things just a little too hard. I don't know what it is but I bite my lips or grind my teeth together if I see something super cute. My friends and I call it Chooking. I've noticed and talked to many people who feel this way. I've heard that it has something to do with loving something so much (branching off of canibalism) that you want to hurt it?

i also got the urge to kill my friends full grown dog, and i picked on one of my friends. for that reason i did cause iwanted him to be stronger. i want them to want to kick my ass or bite me, i want them to just get tougher. i know im a jackass but i dont pick on him anymore hes gotten alot tougher and now hes more popular and has more friends. he doesnt take shit from ppl anymore and we are good friends dont get me wrong lol. i stayed at his house forever. i remember one time ,back when i was picking on him, that some asshole came up in the lunchroom and said something to him. i mean the guy was a complete douche to my friend ( the guy i was picking on ). then out of no where he says something back to the douchebag and i was so proud i mean i had this overwhelming since of pride pouring out of me. but then the douchebag smacked him and thats when i got up, me and my other friend jayme and he darted out scared out of his mind. he later apologized to the guy i was picking on. now everything is cool with all of us.

Awwww, thats SO ADORABLE!!! ~~~~<3

A lot of people here seem to think it's normal. I'm completely afflicted with this and I, personally, don't think it's normal. At all. It's completely wrong. It started when I was younger and watched the cartoon with the roadrunner. I just kept letting my imagination get the best of me whenever I said, "hm, what if the coyote actually GOT the roadrunner." Later it was frogs, then cats. I drew pleasure from their torture. I liked watching them run, I hated it when they died. Does that make sense? I fed off of their fear but just killing them would have been a waste.

Eventually I did start killing strays. Dogs, cats, anything.

Was it a power thing? I think it was something more terrible than the predator aspect, or the carnivore aspect. There was such an invigorating feeling coming from it, a rush I've attempted to match with drugs and other things.

I'm 22 now, and it's taken the entirety of my lifetime to get over this. If you look at the chain, I started small, and eventually started killing very big animals. NEXT IS PEOPLE. THAT'S WHY IF YOU HAVE THIS TRAIT, IT IS TO BE FEARED, AND CONTROLLED...NOT IGNORED. EVERYONE WANTS TO SQUISH THE CUTE KITTY. Drawing pleasure from torture is completely different.

The other thing you may find interesting is I'm a very gentle person. I enjoy reading and music. I'm pretty bright and ambitious and have an exciting future ahead of me. But a few bad choices and I could be plotting murders right now.

It's an addiction, the rush you feel is just like cocaine. You need to quit it or it will consume you. And you can't break, even for a second, or you'll start the whole process over again.

I don't wanna hurt cute animals in general, but here lately, I've gotten to where I hate dogs so much that every time I see a photo of of one, or hear someone use a phrase like "wiggly puppy," I fantasize about slamming puppies up against the wall. So, no, I don't think you're weird.

Save a kitten, invest in stuffed animals.

I got the same problem. Wanting to hurt cute animals. I dont know if it's becouse theyre cute or not, but I have a dog witch is really cute...and I like hurting him. Like, pull in his collar and slap him in the face. One tim I hit him really hard, and I felt really bad, but I wanted to hit him again at the same time.

When I was a kid, I had a bird. I jused to let him out of the cage and follow him around in the house till he got exhousted. And I felt bad about it, but I kept going. Some days later he got sick, but he recovered. He lived 6 years, till he died. I dont know if it was becouse of me or not, but I dont feel bad about it. Is that normal?

umm ok then that's weird..

OMG DON'T DO THAT!!!! I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN I WANNA SQUEEZE THEM AND CUDDLE THEM TOO BUT NOT KILL THEM!! DON'T LET IT HAPPEN!!! LET THE LITTLE CUTE THINGS LIVE!!

YASS

I used to choke my dog when I was a child when no one was seeing, I think I did it because he's so obedient and so wanted him to bite me or chase me. The dog soon died and I think it's partially my fault, I did this thing twice only and the dog isn't supposed to be sick because he came from a good pet store.

I feel the exact same way. But I react this way only to certain kinds of cuteness. Kittens don't do it for me for example. Puppies used to, but no longer do (I guess), but whenever I see a rabbit or a guinea pig, I just want to kill them and eat them. Something about their stupid looking faces that really ticks me off. Also part of the reason why I can't stand all those cutesy bunny lovers.

I always thought it was my Primal Instincts kicking in whenever I feel the urge.

Usually the most common reason for want thing to squeeze and or hurt cute things or animals is that the brain can't figure out what to do and is overwhelmed with the cuteness. It's natural response is to kill the thing so that it will stop being cute

It's called cute aggression and it's perfectly normal I suggest researching the term and the research that scientists put into coining it:)

NOOOO! IT IS NOT NORMAL!!!!

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All the people saying that you're fucked up for wanting to hurt cute animals are full of shit. This happens to everyone.

It's called "cute aggression." Which basically means, the cuter the animal, the more you want to squeeze it or grit your teeth or even say something like "grr."

I believe if people really thought about it this is an almost nonexclusive phenomenon. I think this happens to everyone.

The people saying things like, "you should want to love and be gentle to the animal," are just being good-natured. Of course if you have any shred of decency you wouldn't actually hurt an animal. But the aggressive thoughts and body responses can't be denied.

Lennie from "Of Mice And Man" detected !!!

I love doggies and have had them all my life. For some reason I get an overwhelming urge to inflict pain on some of them, not all of them. Mut's I really like to hurt. Baby puppies also give me a rush when I hurt them and they squeal.
I've never killed a dog before and just more or less harass the one's I hurt but not fatally. Not even to draw blood. Just to scare the hell out of them. This only happens on some dogs, I love and protect little poodles and have no urge to hurt them at all. Why do I get that urge on some of them ? I see the look on their face and just feel like killing it. I hate that I feel that way but can't seem to get rid of it.

This behaviour is the starting sign of a potential serial killer. Soon, you'll move off from animals to humans. Get help while you still can!

One of my cats is absolutely adorable. I mean, they all are, but this one is especially so. Most of her meows register as high-pitched squeaks and she walks around very daintily. I often like to roll her up in a pillow. I suppose to kinda shield her from the intensity of my hugs, since I do tend to go overboard in cuddling my pets. But who can resist when those big, beady eyes look up at you?

This sort of behavior emerged inside of me when I was pretty little. In preschool, there was a girl I found particularly cute whose hand I would hold much harder than any of the rest. (Private school, so we usually started the day with a prayer circle.) Was I a creepy child? Probably.

But really, I think this is perfectly normal behavior, so as long as no physical harm is inflicted. People nowadays tend to think that so much as a cat simply losing balance and falling an insubstantial height *on its own* is animal abuse.

I can remember having a feeling similar to this when I was a kid, and we had little tiny kittens. I don't know why, but there was this urge to just squeeze them until they squeaked. I think I remember doing it once or twice, never super, super hard, just enough to get a squeak out of it, but I also remember feeling utterly aghast at myself and horrified that I had done it, much less felt that way.

I don't think I have felt that way in a really long time, I've wanted to hug things tight, but in a close to me sense, rather then in a mean way, but I was watching a video of a cat with her new born kittens, and I remembered that and my brain said 'you want to do it.' And again, my normal self's reaction was to be immediately disgusted at the very idea, and saddened that I would feel like doing something like that.

But I think, like some one else said, it could be related to dopamine, a 'happy' drug our brains release from the part that is responsible for feeling pleasure. There is a heady sense of power that comes with being stronger them something small and helpless, and essentially having it's very well being in our hands. And even caring people like to occasionally feel invincible and powerful. As a kid, most people are more likely to 'test' this feeling, but as an adult who has experienced a mild version of it, and discovered the rush was short lived and quickly replaced by feelings of regret and disgust at the action, those adults are less likely to run across the feeling as often, like myself.

I think there is also the squeal factor version too, where you are just so happy and excited, you experience over stimulation and react by applying force, when that might not be your actual intent.

So, I think this is normal.

I have this feeling all the time and it scares me. I know I would never act on it but just the thought haunts me.
I didn't feel this way when I got my cat, but my roommates got a kitten last week and I just want to hurt it. I think it's a territorial thing. :(

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I would really like to encourage the poster and others who understand what kind of feelings he/she is talking about to avoid turning the feeling into an urge or desire to act on it with live animals.

For one thing, you don't actually want to rip up the cuteness of actual animals, who are ignorant, innocent, and dull. Rather, your feelings are most likely based upon a semi-anthropomorphosized cartoonish version of the critters.

The peril and anxiety fueled plots of children's entertainment, I believe, conditions an arousal response association to the thought of terrible fates befalling adorable and innocent (yet somehow asking for it) cute little things. I don't think this has to be bad unless you allow it to be and experiencing it in a non-harmful and fully satisfying way can be quite a rush.

As I said, I simply do not think that people like the post author would get any kind of proper satisfaction or enjoyment out of doing harm to real life animals, since they would not fulfill your expectations and the situational context (which is key) would be lacking.

Save any negative feelings toward corporeal critters for the human race (but attempt to spread it equally and without bias, occasional misanthropy is cool, but racism and misogyny are not).

I don't think you're evil for feeling feelings, so just don't be evil, and have fun responsibly.

You are all, hands down, beyond a shadow of a doubt, a bunch of fucking losers.

I found this article regarding 'cute aggression': http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cuteness-inspires-aggression

If you just want to 'gobble up the cute little animal' and 'squish him/ her tightly because you love them so much', but know that you don't really want to harm the animal, then there's nothing to worry about. It sometimes helps to hug a cushion tightly while looking at a cute animal :) .

Btw, some new mother, so overwhelmed and stressed with their first born child, fantasies about ending the life of their own baby... and starts feeling so guilty about it, they end up in a depression, often refer as a postpartum depression. OF COURSE they wouldn't do it. Bout what you feel and what you actually do are different things. It's when you do it and hurt other that there's a problem. (check out OF COURSE... BUT MAYBE, from Louis C.K. Funny stuff..)

Aright. My ex-girlfriend had a little stupid Pomeranian. I hated it. She was raising it like a baby, a young girl with her doll... Dam that dog really had a peanut instead of a brain. And she would give it so much attention all the time, when the little rat was around, it actually felt like a new born baby crying. I the dog became her leader.... The "leader of the pack". Could never follow order or walk in a straight line... She was too over protective of it and the dog took full advantage of her. Maybe i was a bit jealous. Probably.. I assume that, has a man, my subconscious instinct where telling me to eliminated this "baby" that wasn't mine and who was totally ruining/leading my relationship. The fact that my ex would go head over heels for that smelly ugly (ok. cute... maybe) useless little f**k was beyond me. I guess that why it's so hard for guys to stay in a relashionship where the girl is so devoted to their handbag dogs... when she wasn't around, I always wanted to kick it. And I kinna did; I would always play rough with it, poke it, pinch it. I guess it hurt it a little bit but it kept on playing...I was almost enjoying this. And as soon as she returned , the little sh** would completely ignore me and be scare of me....What an hypocrite. Worst than me! One day, she was in the shower, when i saw this stupid thing taking a shit on the floor of MY apartment! I swing it so hard (not kick, more like curling)! Another time It was eating S.O.S (scrubb sponge) and I took it of of its mouth (so it wouldn't die...go figure) and it bit be!! My instinct made me kick it again (I just saved your insignificant life you little fuck!) Felt so good. And it feel so good to talk about it now... When it was running around like crazy outside and would'nt listen to us, asking it to come back in, I was prying it would ran under a bus...

Still, even if, in my deep down fantasy, I wanted it to suffer, I would never make it so because I Loved my ex (...) so much and never wanted to be associated with hurting the one thing she loved the most and never actually wanted to harm it or kill it, or anything for that matter. Its more like watching an horror movie or playing a violent video game (GTA): It relieves some instinct pressure that whe all have inside of us, being predator, top of the food chain, without having to actually do it, most human being driven by the moral (fortunately) that makes us human (except with sex... the only raw, nasty, basic instinct that we enjoy freely...mostly)...

Wo know what? One day we were walking the dog without a leash in the forest very close to a flowing river....The dog got to close and felled in... Instinctively, I gasp, ran and reached in to pull it out... WTF? I in the morning I wanted it to die... I decided to walk it myself after that and through my authority, the dog would behave and walk close by. Fort the first time, I was the leader of the pack, and the dog love it. And I was suddenly liking it a bit more. And I was glad it din't actually died. Still it is, to this day, one of the reason me and my ex broke up... So don't worry. You're normal. Be happy.

If you want to hurt cartoon animals, that's normal.
If you want to hurt real animals, it's NOT normal.

I WANNA CRUNCH KITTENS AND SMALL CREATURES BECAUSE THEY'RE SO CUTE!!! AND SQUEEZE THEM TILL THEIR EYES POP OUT!!! (^_^) But... seriously I'd never, ever do it. It's just the feeling you get inside when you see something "too" cute. You just want to squish it... I don't think there is anything wrong with that thought.

I realise this site is about weather or not a person is normal, and so there's a tendency for the community to comfort those who feel bad about themselves.

But in all honesty, the urge to want to hurt / crush cute animals to death not absolutely not normal. I love cute animals too and had kitten when I was 7, had a little rabbit, and a puppy. I never once ever had the urge to squeeze them to death. Sure I kissed them and pet them Ect, but killing them? Wtf that's not normal.
I'm just saying, I think it's a bit hypocritical of the people who say its normal, because if the situation was different and someone said "I occasionally have the urge to murder someone for real" or "I sometimes have sexual feelings for little kids, am I normal?" I doubt any of you would defend those urges as normal and perfectly understandable and natural.

I have an anecdote, my cousin is about 23 now, but when she was 16, she was investigated by the police because she crushed a friend's pet kitten to death in her arms, squashing it against her chest and stomach. She basically just hugged it to death. It happened during a summer holiday, and her friend's parents contacted the police and my cousin was arrested on charges of animal cruelty.
When we asked her why she did it, she said she just couldn't resist, she said the kitten was so cute she just picked him up and started to hug him, and it got too tight and so he tried to get away, but she just squeezed tighter and tighter until he died:( her friend entered the room at the last minute and said she saw my cousin sitting on the bed with her arms against her front and the kitten pressed against her boobs and stomach, and tufts of fur and little paws sticking out and twitching.

This is what happens to me too, thing is Animals r like my whole life, aiming for job as Zooligist here... and ive thought, why is life so unfair to me? like i have a cat that stepped in poo, its clumsy, very.so i tryed wipe it off,, noting wet tho and it hates me so i go cudle it and it purr then... i wanna kill it... this ruined my WHOLE fn life i mean!!! Why me? somebody any GOOD ideas?

you're all a proof to how humanity has failed.

I get the same urges, just because it would be so funny. The cuter the animal the funnier it would be, thinking about smacking a puppy with a baseball bat just cracks me up. I would never do it, I just think about it.

I do the same thing lol. I have a little Chihuahua and he is so small and cute I just want to squeeze him really tight and hug him and slap him really fast.

I've never gotten the urge to kill an animal. I do however get the urge to kill babies, especially one that's crying. The thought of smashing their soft heads into the pavement while brains seep out makes me happy.

I personally don't think its that normal.
Animal Husbandry came about with the training and domestication of Canine, Equine, Eliphantidae and Feline animals because these creatures organize themselves in groups that have a defined group hierarchy.

The only reason that these animals are able to be trained is because we assume the 'dominant position' and direct them as the dominant female or male of their group would do.

I can assure you that this weird 'wanna squeeze you till your eyes pop out your head' behavior is not natural to their groups, and is idiosyncratic only of the novice human animal handler, i.e a human who is humanizing animals, and wants to see them as they would a little child.

Okay, here is the deal. There are many people who have the following - hitting, squeezing, etc., gives them the same feelings that normal people feel when they hug or "love on" another entity.

These produce the same dopamine effects.

To fix this issue - gently scratch the cute animal as you are squeezing a pillow - the same dopamine effects will result ... although you will slip back and forth into the it's so cute, must squeeze mode, you now a quick remedy to save the animal from cuteness torture ...

And now you know why you squeeze cute things.

It releases the same Dopamine effects as normal people feel, when the normal people feel love, and wanna hug another being, etc.

Weird, but true.

I get this feeling too but towards babies.. I don't get the urge to kill them just harm.. when I was a child myself I used to squeeze their fingers whenever I got the chance. And after, I felt horrible with myself but I just couldn't resist! I just felt this hate! Stupid little booring creatures with all these stupid people giggling around them. - Oh! He farted soooooo cute. - Oh! He just puked how cuuute. JESUS PEOPLE! Anyway now I control myself better. But still I can't make the stupid feeling go away when I'm in the presence of a baby. I just hate it! And I hate feeling this way, they never harmed my, why do I feel this way?!? Is this some kind of social disorder? Does it have a name?

Im scared that if I start I wont be able to stop.

lol, thats so me, I know it's evil but i can't help it, ;)

I do too im all like "its so adorable =)and then im like yes i wanna squeze the crap out of them x) mostly with cats but thats just because i plain dont like cats

its normal my sis does the same but does not hurt them cause their so cute lol

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