Is it normal to torture animals?
What if somebody does this on a regular basis but he really doesn't want to? Something constantly bringing him back to it. He loves cats but he gets the overwhelming urge to hurt them, to make them feel extreme amounts of pain. To hold the cat's mouth shut while you inflict pain so it can't scream and alert the neighbors. To torture it so badly while suffocating it that it poops itself. The torturing practice to be so well refined that he knows to put a towel underneath the cat in preparation for when it poops itself when you inflict excruciating pain onto it.
Is it normal for people to torture animals? Or is it one of those things you'll never know, because most people lie about it?
Also, how can someone who does such a thing actually get help to stop without being thrown in the psychiatric ward or prison? Is it impossible for such a person to receive help because by doing so, it will ruin their life?