WHEN US reality type Kim Kardashian posted a picture on Twitter yesterday of her holding an uncomfortable looking cat by the scruff of the neck, a flood of hateful messages followed.
Many too expletive-laden for us to use, suffice to say the "Twitterverse" wasn't happy.
"This is hot!!!!!!!.... Just don't let PETA get an eye of this cuz it look like that kitty is in pain," one fan wrote (with perfect grammar clearly).
TMZ reported Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals L.A. as saying: "It is permissible to hold a kitten by his or her scruff for a brief amount of time" but "the manner in which Ms. Kardashian is holding the kitten could lead others to mishandle animals."
The controversial pic was taken at a photo shoot in Sydney this week, with Kim posting "good kitty cat!" under the snap.
Confidential asked the RSPCA's Michael Beatty for his take on the puss's predicament.
"To be honest, we probably handle them like that most of the time," Beatty said.
"But if it's a larger cat, we'd put the hand under the rump. She's at least half right."
Yesterday Kardashian looked serene and calm on the outside but inside was anything but when asked about recent reports that she had moved on from long-time beau, gridiron player Reggie Bush, and been spied kissing Real Madrid soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo.
The cable TV starlet, who is going into her fifth series of Keeping Up With The Kardashians in the US and has become a gossip magazine favourite, has been flown out to Australia to promote a new Optus product, the Motoblur.
But it was social networking of another kind that was on Confidential's mind when we met up with the curvy 29-year-old at The Winery yesterday.
When asked about her break-up with Bush she said: "We're great friends. We broke up in March but there's no drama. It's so crazy because people always want to make it dramatic but there really wasn't an issue, we just didn't spend as much time as we used to together. We are focused on work."
And when asked about reports she'd been spotted kissing soccer star Ronaldo a week ago she refused to comment: "I've kissed about 1000 people this week, according to US tabloids."
Source: Herald Sun
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