While I agree with Sandman's sentiment about 'animal cruelty' songs, his leaping to the conclusion that pfr doesn't care about animals makes no sense at all.

It's not the people that sing and enjoy such songs that I have any problem with - as I've said, some of my good friends are among them - it's writing/singing/enjoying comedy songs about cruelty, of any kind.

In my own repertoire is a poaching song, in which an animal meets a painful end. While I'd never go poaching myself, I'm happy to sing the song, as it tells a story which is based on fact; people did/do go poaching in such a way.

But if that song was meant to have the audience laughing in the aisles at the suffering and death of the animal, then I wouldn't consider singing it.