A teenager drowned three kittens in a makeshift bathtub before posting the footage to Snapchat. The teen captioned the video, which the Mirror is choosing not to show, 'drowning kittens'.
The video, filmed in Bundaberg, Queensland, shows the animals writhing in pain as a woman holds them down in the water with her hand.
Messages on social media show a woman tell friends she decided to kill the kittens because she had run out of room for cats.
In the messages, she says she wanted to do it 'while they're young'. A friend pleaded with the woman not to kill them and said she could hand them over to the RSCPA instead. "Or just sell them, give them away.
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