Sometimes they'll just play with the animal while it's still alive. I know I saw my friends cat do this with a mouse and you can tell how traumatized the mouse was that it wouldn't even try to move. I'd consider that torture. For the record, I caught the mouse and let it go.
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Isn't that the same behavior that one of those cat designed toys with a feather or a mouse made of yarn provoke. Any movement would make it pounce. The mouse played possum, that's all it could do. Not convince that that's gratification via torture
