hopefully comforting reminder/reality check for anyone who saw this and got upset like i did!!!!
this was part of a game, absolutely no animals were hurt in the process of this or because of this!
(also this is not meant to be negative to the person who posted this!! this is an extremely cool feature of the game, although very sad and scary! i'm just extremely sensitive with this kind of thing so i wanted to add a comment just offering help to anyone else who might have been caught off guard by this)