Piers Morgan is not the most subtle of people, but I don’t think anyone expected him to actually threaten to kill a young teenager’s cat live on TV.

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To be fair, he did sort of have a reason. On today’s episode of ‘Good Morning Britain’ he was speaking to 12-year-old trophy hunter, Aryanna Gourdin, who has a sadistic hobby where she kills animals for fun and then takes savage selfies with them once she’s done.

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Still, Piers has come under fire because he was essentially trying to get a reaction out of the pre-teen while interviewing her, by discussing murdering her cat in the same way she murders giraffes, wilder beasts and antelope.

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I mean, he does have a point. It’s kind of messed up that anyone would think it’s cool to hunt and kill one species of animal, but then love and cherish another. Speciesism is a thing you know. Plus that father/daughter duo seem super smug and annoying.

But still, I don’t think Piers has gone about it the right way. Little tip – adults aren’t supposed to threaten to kill kids’ pets no matter what the situation. I wonder if he’ll get ripped apart like he did for slut shaming Kim Kardashian and Emily Ratajkowski? Probably.