I agree with you both.
But some remarks if I may
1. Cruelty have not a fixed definition, it is by the viewer point of view.
I am sure thst there are people, vegan for example, that think that what we are doing with ouer birds, or you shooting a dear, is not less disgusting.
2. I object to the term " inhuman " to describe somthing Cruel. Because the biggest AUTHORITIES in history was made, and ARE made by humans. The Holocaust, ISIS, Caligula, Nero cizar, the inquisition in the Catholic world, the slavery in the US, ect, ect
So please spare me the "moral fasads" of humanity.
3. You should distinguish between the brutal injury of the bird, and the its amazing recovery !