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Kill a Cat, Go to Jail!!
I found this on a news blog, makes me sick.
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I know there are more important issues in the world today, but sometimes it?s the little things that upset me the most.
Apparently, some idiot who once almost played for the New York Mets and who appears in an episode of Sex in the City thinks that kciking and beating a cat after it bit him is justified. This article about the incident says he claims the cats death was accidental and yet the cat died with a torn tongue, collapsed ribs and a laundry list of injuries that made me ill, so I stopped reading it.
To be honest, I know nothing about this man except that he admits to kicking a cat. Assuming as a professional or almost professional athlete he is, well, let?s be generoius, and say about 200 pounds, he got angry because a cat bit him and then kicked it. I didn?t read enough to see if he admitted to doing it more than once as the injuries would suggest because the whole thing made me a little ill.
Okay, so it made me a lot ill.
It seems likely that if convicted the man, and boy am I using that term loosely, involved will pay a fine and maybe face a short sentence in the county jail. Unfortunately, animal cruelty is not taken seriously by many courts.
On further discussion with my cat Rain and I have come up with a punishment that we think suits the crime. First, we need an angry elephant, about ten times the size of this cat-beater. Then, we need a small enclosure so the cat-beater cannot escape from his tormenter. We might need to give the elephant a weapon too, since I doubt the cat-beater was naked when he killed Morris.
To be fair, I have tripped over my cat and accidentally kicked her. She was completely uninjured. So I have lots of trouble believing that this cat-beater did not mean to kill the cat. You don?t accidentally beat an animal to death.
The more humanitarian side of me wants to suggest that he needs anger management counseling and lots of it and psychiatric help, as it is pretty well accepted that people who hurt animals often move on to hurting people, but today I am not feeling that generous.
Rain tells me that the elephant analogy might be more apt if I made it a hungry tiger instead. Then, maybe this jerk could learn to respect cats.
Re: Kill a Cat, Go to Jail!!
What that man did is unforgiveable and he needs to pay for it.
It's people like this that disgust me! My sister's FIL openly admitted to shooting their family dog with a shotgun back when his kids were small because it growled at his children. Um, that would be grounds for maybe finding it a new home, but not taking it out and killing it inhumanely!
ugh..that's horrible! i like the elephant and tiger thing..
for all those injuries it was definitely NOT an accident or unintentional
Blog!
poor kitty! that is awful...