A 10 years old kid knows perfectly what he is doing. In fact, 10/11 years is some kind of intelligence peak every kid reaches before the dumb age of puberty. The kid deserved it. Play with matches, get a burn!

I'm amazed at today's parents who seem to think any interaction with their kids should go through them. If you let your kid go around without you (and you should), he is his own person, and you have no right to expect people to refer to you like some sort of supreme judge of everyone's actions around your kid.

hurt animals- get consequences. He wasn't hurt and learned a lesson. Pretty equal discipline if you ask me.

It takes a village and if my kid acted like that there would be no problem, if I'm not their to show him the error of his ways by all means neighbor go right ahead. But my kid wouldn't do that BECAUSE he understands consequences come from people other than your parents... this kid will have a hard time as an adult if he thinks everyone will let him get away with bad choices as long as mom and dad don't find out.

Okay, so people defending the 10 year old realize he's 13, not 10, right? He should already know better by 10, and at 13 there's no excuse to treat animals badly. My 6 year old niece knows better than a 13 year old? That's pathetic. Parent your children better and they won't get what they deserve for being little monsters. And the fact that people are defending the kid's behavior is just astounding. That one woman saying she'd destroy all their outside their stuff outside their house if they did it to her kid? WTF?! That woman shouldn't be a parent if that's how she's going to teach her children to react after they've done something wrong and got consequences for it.

Kid deserved it. At 13-year old you should know well enough not to bother animals, let alone throw water on them *especially cats knowing that they do not like it*, so I think he got what he deserved.

"some guys are even sending her inappropriate pictures of themselves." Soooo, she posts about a cat, the neighbour kid, his dad, some water.... and some guys send her d**k pics? WTF is wrong with those males?

For more than ten years, I'm still really mad at a girl next door; she poked my dog with a wooden stick and threw things at him from the window for fun, like enjoying a shooting game. I will never forgive anyone, even a three-year-old child, doing like that to my dog.

One person really thinks the fact that the cat was outside was why it got water thrown on him? 😒 Good Lord, these people need water thrown on them..

The dad should be mad at his son,not at the woman.

You did good. Kid deserves to be taught a lesson. Bad parenting.

If it were my kid (I have 3 adult sons), not only would he have been doused in water, I would have grounded him for at least a week. And for the parents who were mad about the dousing, tell me what happens when the little brat goes out in the real world, acts like a jerk and someone proceeds to teach him a lesson? Best to learn that consequences can come from unexpected places and people.

a few years ago, i'm walking in the street when i suddenly hear someone shouting commands and laughing, and a dog barking loudly. i look around and there's this teenage couple (boy & girl) pointing their german shepherd to some "prey" under a parked car. they're inciting the dog to attack and laughing as the dog is barking and going a bit mad because it can't catch the "prey". i approach and look under the car (with great difficulty) - it's a cat, poor thing frightened out of its wits, eyes wide open and bushy tail. the teens are acting like they're on a hunting party. i lose it and start to shout at them in the middle of the street - i honestly don't remember much except calling them criminals in the making :) as i kept yelling, the dog just stood there, practically at my feet, watching me - no growls, no aggressive behaviour - clearly much smarter than those teens. that was 2 or 3 weeks before i had my 9-pound baby daughter (i had a huge bump :)...

If the kid were a toddler I would've said the woman perhaps overdid it (although being a mother of two toddlers, I'm certain neither of them would have done such a thing). But this kid is 10 or older! And the woman only poured water on him, which was what he did to the cat. Don't see the issue here.

Is this an American thing about cats should live in doors only? I live in the UK, and unless you have some kind of designer cat or live in a block of flats, cats come and go as they please. This is a real question, my cats come in and out all day and then we keep them in at night

I f*****g LOVE the comment saying it could've been avoided if "the cat was indoors" f**k u n that physopath child. My cat can chill where ever tf it wants(on my property). Ur teenager is a d**k. That's reality. In the real world, u act like a d**k u get treated like one. Good lesson to learn young.

No person of any age need to be tormenting animals 9/10 would have gone to talk to the parent who in turn just say "its just a cat" and suddenly you are living next door to a 13 year old tyrant on his way to serial killer.

Wow. What is this world coming to.

Karma. At age 3? Kid is clueless enough. But... Yeah. BTW, dousing a cat can be considered animal mistreatment, and taken to the authorities, particulalrly if the perp is laughing about it. And the kid's dad would have agreed with the "joke" on the cat, is my bet. It's water. The kid now gets that it sucks. Lesson learned.

To all the people who say that the person should have gone to the parent and the parent would have reprimanded the kid -> id say to the parent that if you had thought your child better in the first place that thing would never have happend, so the only one you can blame is yourself for your bad parenting... Your child got what he deserved, stop bitching for a little bit of water.

All of those defending the kid- just no. He deserved it. And cats don't deserve to be locked indoors all their life. People kill more animals than cats and some do it for fun- lock them away too!

I totally agree with you and would have dumped water on the kid too apparently the kids parents never taught him how to treat animals or do not touch things that don't belong to him!! I have a daughter and she knows how to behave! Some people don't parent there kids then get all pissed when you do maybe if they dod there kids would not be little brats!!!!

Disgraceful behaviour by that kid...and equally disgraceful parenting by his parents......hurt and anaimal, not far off hurting a child...both are vulnerable. A wet and perfect lesson for the brat....

I wonder if people's reaction would have been the same if the title was "Man throws basin of water at girl". If the answer is yes, congratulations, you can judge objectively, or at least you are the master of your own judgment. If the answer was "no" followed by a rationalization, then you, my friend, have double standards.

It's called instant karma! Bratty kid needs to learn!

"Terrorize my cat and I'll kill you." Yes, I've said it.

When I was 4 yrs old, I had bitten my brother-in-law on the arm and he immediately grabbed my arm and bit me back. I never bit anyone again!! A lot of the times kids need someone else other than a parent to teach them a lesson or two...they seem to listen a bit more.

This was the perfect response, it's what many children need in order to learn, and harmless. He's far too old to be excused, and those defending him are the reason for the obnoxious adults we now have in society!

I agree with her. If my kid does something stupid like that and gets water thrown back at him, I'm going to that neighbors house with my kid to make him apologize. Then he has to apologize to the cat. Cruelty to animals lead to other bad habits.

The kid acted like a cruel brat and deserved the "retaliation". Animal cruelty is animal cruelty.

Anyone 10 years old is old enough to know better than to attack an animal. He should be happy it was just a basin of water on him. Were that my kid he'd have got his bottom paddled when he got home. Don't hurt animals

If a 13 year old did that to my cat, I'd do more than pour water on him. But then again, I want my cat to live a long, happy life, so they're indoor cats and wouldn't have been outside in the first place. They have twice the life expectancy when they're indoor cats and studies show they're just as happy. You let them out and little shits like this can get to them and much worse. If by 13 you haven't taught your kid to be kind to animals, you've failed as a parent.

This is how I see the situation: the 13 year old boy is old enough to know that dumping water on a cat is wrong. He could have shocked that cat's system and who knows what kind of damage that could have caused. The readers have no idea how many times this has happened and the woman just spoke to the kid. For all we know, this may have happened multiple times and the kid wasn't punished. In the update, she said that a few days later, that the dad was laughing because he thought it was funny. His son probably didn't tell him what he did when he told his dad.