I just found out today my father, decades ago, superglued a small Yorkshire Terrier's lips together as punishment [View all]

Because the dog was locked in a small room 24/7 by him with no human interaction, and the dog acted out his distress by chewing on the wallpaper.

He also took a pet kitten of my stepsister and threw it over the fence, causing the animal not only physical damage but the cat never came back.

He also (and this is something I already knew about) beat up 12 and 9 year old girls (my two stepsisters and their friend) and then denied it.

He also spent his life choking, smacking, hitting women and only stopped leaving bruises when he finally got arrested for it in 1987.

He has also held loaded guns to the heads of his wives (he’s had a lot of wives).

I won’t go into the stuff he did to me and my siblings.

I tried so hard to forgive him and get along with him in spite of how he always put me down every time I talked to him and in spite of all the abuse from my childhood, but somehow knowing about him super glueing the dog’s lips helped me understand, truly understand, the man who made my childhood hell on earth, is truly a monster.

I used to think maybe I was a bad kid and deserved the abuse.

But that dog did not deserve what he did to him.

My father is just a monster, that’s all.

And he is dying now.

May God, if He exists, show my father the same mercy he showed to that dog snd cat.