President Obama seems to be a good man with a conscience & I am hopeful that he is able to make some changes for the better in American society and ultimately the world. But he can't do it alone. We all need to take a stand for the morals & for the good things in this world before they are all gone.

Buns, Vancouver, Canada

"A spokesman for YouTube said it relied on users to alert it to inappropriate clips, which were then removed. "

This is a pack of lies ALL of the videos mentioned above still remain. In fact YT THRIVES on the attention that these videos get. YouTube is irresponsible!

Gary McDowell, Glasgow, Scotland

At some point, people who are so horribly inhumane to God's creatures (who were created before people), will have to answer to the Creator for their heinous actions/cruelty to His creatures, and they will NOT like His reply to them. They will suffer!!!

suzanne perkins, tyler, USA

An absolutely horrifying commentary on modern society. What terrifies me is that these people will procreate.

Abusing and killing animals for sadistic pleasure is one of the most common traits found amongst serial killers. Society needs to recognize just how dangerous these psychopaths are.

Jeffr Johnston, Mississauga, Canada

it is very disgusting I can not imagin how many people do not have have any compasionate or love for animals. For this reason I have become a vegetarian since February this year. I have watch enough of this videos to make me sick. How can people have this kind of heart. Your time will be next.

Aracelia Lopez, Rio Ranco , Sandoval

i find these videos disturbing. there is a whole lot of very sick people out there and they have found a way to publicise their cruelty and gain fame and notoriety through youtube. Most python owners are very responsible and do not feel the need to feed them live prey and feed humanly prekilled food

Jen, doncaster, England

Cant something seriously be done to remove all animal cruelty videos from youtube surely there must be a way theres even footage of women swallowing live baby mice to satisfy the fantasy's of perverts and low lifers and the snake feeding ones are just aweful cant we all get a petition going.

Hedwig, Glasgow, Scotland

One video found on Youtube showed a "brave" hunter sneaking up on a SLEEPING wildcat and shooting it. Another showed a different animal after being shot with an arrow, obviously suffering, with some fool saying off camera, "Dude! He's choking on his own blood! Ha ha ha!" Sick.

Nick, Boston,

I think that anyone who finds animal cruelty in the slightest funny REALLY has something not quite right in there little brains and needs help as well!
If they can do that to a poor animal then think what they can do to a human being.

Kelly Teather , Nottingham, England

YouTube has great pictures, viedos, music, cute animals, funny people and other great things to look at to entertain you. They do not need viedos of animals beinng harmed. These viedos should be banned from Youtube.

laura, macon, usa

Don't like it, don't watch it.

Yessir, Brroke,

How can we stop this abuse? Or how can we turn them over?
something needs to be done,
Linda

Linda French, missoula, montana

It seems that YouTube seems to attract the worst types of lowlife. Although I understand that it is virtually impossible to prosecute such individuals, at the very least the videos should be removed immediately and the users who post this garbage banned. I support free speech.. until a certain line is crossed.

N, singapore, SG

My daughter was also caught off guard and saw a soldier throw
a puppy off a cliff. She called me at work crying. Can't something
be done about this? We should not have to be subjected to such
cruelty. If youtube didn't exist -- would these videos still be made?
I doubt it.

Julie Banks, Salt Lake City, Utah

anyone capable of harming an animal is one step away trom harming a child

steve, lochgelly, scotland

I don't agree with animal cruelty as I have 2 rabbits from a rescur home and they were chucked out. I think You Tube should be banned and I can't believe people would be so cruel as to do that! If they were an animal I don't know how they would feel at all of these videos.

anna, Kent, London

I was naive. I was looking for cute and funny animal videos on youtube and got side tracked. I found a video that claimed to educate people about the plight of animal abuse and I decided to watch to see if there was something I could do or perhaps donate to help out the animals. The person who posted the video claimed to have volunteered at an animal shelter. The video began with respect for the animals but then buried in the middle of the video was a brutal live attack on a sleeping dog then quickly moved to show a man with a kitten where he quickly proceeded to cut the baby's head off. I was mortified, shocked and quickly shut down my PC. I was caught off guard and did not report this abuse. I wish I could find a way to locate the video again and make a formal complaint to youtube for NOT monitoring the content of such videos. I cannot get those horrible images of the animals out of my head. The video maker is sick, abusive and needs to be stopped!

Colleen Walker, Niagara Falls, New York, USA

As much as i love You Tube it is truly upsetting that people would think that animal cruelty is funny. Well it is not it's sick!

Bex, Kidsgrove,

Well I definetely think all animals should have a safe loving family,also animal cruelty should stop today right now them people that abuse animals should be sorry for what they have done , thirdly i think someone should stop all this cruelty to
animals and also there should be more RSPCA people around in most parts of London/England and fom now on I think there should always be a form that people shuold sign so the people that give other people a pet know that the other person will be prepeared to look after that pet for the rest of it's life,and last but not least huting and abusing animals just for entertainment is wrong!

yours Discustingly

Jasmine, Hainault,Ilford,Essex , England

its only the human race who wilfully hurt animals in the extreme. is it maybe that some humans( they are called that in the losest terms) dont have a fully fuctioning brain. god forbid that they would be hurt by an animal, the creatures would no doubt be beaten or killed for their actions, i could not think of a befitting punishment, it would make us as bad as them,

rita, southend on sea, england

As much as I love YouTube, I can't believe there are people out there that would willfully harm animals just for entertainment. It's sick and very upsetting. I wish there was more that could be done to identify these 'humans' and prosecute them. And I hope YouTube themselves are doing all they can to eliminate these disgusting videos.

Misha, London,

i think any animal cruelty is sickening and what ever they do to animals should be done to them because they are sick and need professional help since man/human came along animals have suffered people need to get a life and leave these poor creatures alone.

jessie, manchester, england

You people who are doing this have very sick mind and you all will get punished for all the terrable things you do
Get yourselfs lifes its not that hard and let these animals live a life they deserve

Siobhan , North Ayrshire,

i think you are all sick people that enjoy watching and doing this cruel life!!!get a life your self and let all these living animals have a life too !!!!!

claire gascoigne, leicestershire, england

This is just completely sickening...what kind of twisted people would do such heartless things?

Sneha Verma, Gillingham, Kent, England

Some of the clips you have spoken about are completely sick and i don't know what kind of people they are actually filming acts like that - it's disgusting and completely unnecessary. Although the clip of the python eating a dead mouse i honestly don't find a problem with. I would find it educational, as long as the mouse died naturally. Pythons have a right to live as well you know. It's just like us eating chicken or lamb. But live animals being fed is just extreme and horrible and shouldn't be done even behind the camera.

a.green, Essex,

I agree with cottonwhiskers

Youtube should ban all animal cruety videos in which said animals are in human captivity.

End of story.

Bannister, boulder, colorado, USA

There's this thing called free speech in America... while I do not condone the acts of these videos, it doesn't mean we really have the right to stomp on what they put on YouTube. YouTube is not a police force, they are part of a company, and given how much traffic they get, it's hard to filter out every "bad" video. Cut the company some slack, how would you feel if you had to deal with millions upon millions of videos being uploaded everyday and had to sort through each video. Even videos that are flagged need to be flagged by many people in order to have an effect, because it could be just a couple of really sensitive people, or a couple of extreme animal activists. Think of it realistically, as a whole and not just about what a few people care about.

Anaya Wiliams, New York,

People who hurt animals are cowards. They are sick and need medical help. These creatures cannot defend themselves. Really these people want to be placed in a nice cage with a python. Is that funny?

neil miller, france,

YouTube.com could use filters, or even a generalized search for videos of this nature and remove them before they are even viewed. This is just an excuse they're using to deny responsibility.

Vicki T, Portland, Oregon

they should never have been aloud to show this sort of inhumane video clips they should have it scanned every day to check with these problems.I have alredy contacted you tube they say there experts have just missed this the video and will do somthing about it 7months now nothing done we need to somthing

liam dionnelly, edinburgh, scotland

YouTube: Battle At Kruger. Documenting genius.

SC, London,

Sick,sick,sick . And that's what I think about people who keep
pythons as pets. What they are fed has to be alive.
In south Florida when they get too big to keep the owners
turn them loose in the everglades. Fish and Game have
killed in the neighborhood of a hundred of them but there
more and the natural wildlife is at risk although the alligators
pick one off now and again.
There are a lot of twisted people out there. Those who record
for public viewing and those who will view it.
If You Tube has to rely on viewers to report inappropriate clips
the scheme isn't working which says something about the
viewers.

Jerry Scroggin, Phoenix, Arizona/USA

It's not only chicks - there are literally hundreds of videos on Youtube of live rabbits and guinea pigs being fed to constrictors. Indeed, there is a video on Youtube of a teacher at a Florida public school feeding a live rabbit to a python whilst his baying pupils watch.
I have highlighted several of these videos to Youtube, who say in their terms and conditions that subscribers cannot upload videos depicting animal cruelty. Not a single one of these videos has been removed as a result of my complaints, so for youtube to say they rely on watchers highlighting breaches of their terms (feeding live prey to constrictors is not illegal in many US states, as it is here) strikes me as disingenuous to say the least.
The fact is, Youtube has a solid market base amongst dysfunctional, voyeuristic, inadequate heavy metal obsessed escapees from Beavis and Butthead the Movie, and they know it and that they have to cater for it.

John , london, UK

Yes, it is time Youtube took responsibility for NOT glamourising and condoning animal cruelty by humans. However, different viewers may assess videos in different ways. For instance, I WOULD allow footage of the following:
- Wild animals killing their prey without human intervention, as Nature dictated, as with the lions/giraffe clip.
-A depiction of human upon animal cruelty which is clearly intended to condemn and raise awareness, as with the cat/balcony clip.
-A pre-killed rodent being fed to a snake, as this involves no un-necessary cruelty.I recommend that we should circulate comments of condemnation to these video-donors who appear to glorify animal cruelty. Eg.recently I have targeted videos wherein snake owners feed their pets live rats, the most distressing of which feature newborn babies which clearly have been forcibly removed from their mothers. I confess I have been quite forthright and abusive with my remarks and so here present only my online nickname.

"cottonwhiskersUK", Birmingham, UK

I've flagged dozens of absolutely horrible videos, worse then are described here, but Youtube has done absolutely nothing to remove them. They could care less. Frankly they are complicit in the torture and deaths of all these animals because they earn advertising dollars every time someone visits their site to watch this perverted and sadistic garbage. It's not better than the gladatorial blood sports of Rome. Youtube needs to start taking this terrible issue seriously, otherwise the US government should step in to do it for them.

Joseph, Toronto, Canada

Cruel and sickening. YouTube/Google should stop these videos appearing on its site immediately.

Angela Williams, Bexhill on Sea, England

While governments of the world allow animals to be abused and turn a blind eye then people will not changed . For example the cruel slaughtering by the ritual halah method , hunting and shooting ,bullfighting , rodeos , factory farming ,the fur and meat industry all is animal abuse . The pity is all these cruel acts could be banned by law .

Jean Bennington, Prestatyn, Britain