[Livia]

I'm not sure that everyone who abuses animals needs mental healthcare. Some people are just abusers. I always say this on threads of this kind, but... in the USA, animal wardens are trained to look for child abuse because one often follows the other. Also, there are many instances of people with mental health problems who get huge benefit from having, or at least having contact with, a pet. Some people are just cruel and it wouldn't surprise me to find that this woman was completely in whatever passes for 'her right mind'.