"Doomsday Preppers" are a form of child abuse

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. Yeah, that was a real thing

I don't know how common it was, but I've seen it referred to, in documentaries.

eg

It would be interesting to hear the pest-control explanation and justification for cutting off the tails and ears of foxes as trophies or for smearing the blood of a dead fox onto the face of a child as an initiation ceremony

http://www.league.org.uk/content/323/What-s-Wrong-with-Hunting-More on the practice of’blooding’ children in fox hunting

‘When the fox is dead, most hunts cut off the tail (‘brush’), the feet (‘pads’) and the head (‘mask’) as trophies. The carcass is then thrown to the hounds. Some hunts also indulge in the practice of ‘blooding’ – the smearing of fresh fox blood on the faces of those, usually children, who have witnessed their first kill.

http://www.conservativesagainstfoxhunting.com/2011/08/caroline-dinenage-conservative-mp-speaks-out-against-fox-hunting-on-bbc-radio-wales-august-23rd-2011/