The link is real, and animal abuse continues. This week an 86-year-old man tossed his cat into a river.
Surveillance cameras caught him. And the cat was rescued and is now up for adoption at a shelter.

Police said video showed a man leaning over the bridge railing and shaking a pet carrier over the river with the door open and facing down, causing the cat to fall out.

He might have gotten away with it, but he reported his cat missing, which in combination with the video ID'd him as the culprit. NO BRAINS, or Sh^t for Brains...