Just as there are more flatulence related iPhone applications than you'd think would be necessary (iFart Mobile, Mega Fart, Atomic Fart, Remote Fart, Pass the Gas... 25 and counting!), there seems to be a developing glut of sadistic cat torture apps.

What's the deal? In most of the games, the goal is ostensibly to save cute kittens. But most of the apps take Dr. Evil-like pleasure in their torture and/or demise when it eventually comes about. Of course, Dr. Evil himself was a benevolent master to Mr. Bigglesworth.

Where does that leave these apps? They, sir, are worse than Dr. Evil!

Save Kitty

There's no saving going on here as the furry feline inevitably gets sliced to shreds via whirling saw blades. It's only a matter of time. How long can you keep the cat alive until the increasingly frantic blades work their grim purpose? Eventually, the kittens health bar ticks down to zero, you're greeted with a splatter sound, accompanied by a bloody summary page of your game.

Spokko, it's developer, warns that "this game is not for kids and people of faint heart."

Ya think?

iDumb

iDumb is a series of seriously dumb games. One of those games involves catching kittens before they fall into a giant meat grinder, turning them into "cat burgers."

But hey, at least it's not all about chopped cat. There are also games involving getting people to puke, and spitting on passers by from a second floor window.

All that, combined with an 8th grade art class aesthetic, make this app a real winner.

Cat Toss

Going for the less gruesome, developer Inner Four wants to help you experience the joy of throwing a cat with Cat Toss. You know, for those times when throwing cats is frowned upon, such as at work, in class or on the subway.

The object is to see just how far you can fling the feline, which is sometimes high enough to spot UFOs in the upper atmosphere.

Cat Annoy Extreme

Not content to torture cats merely in the virtual world, Inner Four also has a real-world cat torture app. Cat Annoy Extreme is chock full of sounds that will likely give your cat (or your girlfriend's cat) an eventual heart attack.

Included audio torture methods are high frequency sounds, other cats hissing, barking dogs and more. They can be set for continuous or random play, for maximum kitty-hating sadism.

Also, if you're not necessarily needing to annoy a cat in the extreme, the vanilla "Cat Annoy" app is also available from another developer. That's right, there are two iPhone apps designed to annoy your cat with sound. More to come, I'm sure.

Kitty Kannon

Once you grow bored of merely tossing a cat, you can go all out and grab this app. It lets you seriously up the firepower.

Careful! You could accidentally hit exploding landmines, floating mines, needles or hungry dogs. You wouldn't want to hurt the kitty cat, would you?

Kitty Kannon is a take-off of a flash-based web game of a similar name. In it, blood squirts out of the cat when it lands on spikes, is blasted by dynamite, etc.

Good, wholesome fun.

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I'm not sure what all this means. Is it a commentary on the state of humanity, or just the state of the certain iPhone developers who are living in their parent's basement at the age of 34?