(July 22, 2025 at 10:05 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(July 22, 2025 at 6:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If you mean the bat incident, that story is largely a myth. Yes, he bit the head off a bat, but the bat was dead and Oz mistook it for a toy, which his fans had been throwing onstage for years. There was no ‘animal cruelty’ involved.
If you mean the time he killed his family’s 17 cats, it’s an urban myth.
Boru
Actually, he admitted to it in 2009. By all accounts, this was in his "Take a shitton of drugs, wear one of Sharon's dresses, and piss on a public monument" years. He seemed to do what he can in his later years to atone for this, even working with PeTA for anti-declawing ads. For what it's worth, looking up "Ozzy Osborne animal cruelty" on Google, I found this obituary from PeTA that's surprisingly positive.
Snopes says there’s no evidence that it ever happened. Given the amount of drugs in his system for all those years, it’s perfectly plausible that Ozzy himself came to believe the myth.
Boru
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