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Quote from: Canadian Press

Couple taking care of cat allegedly eat it

Canadian Press
Apr. 18, 2005 05:20 PM

WINDSOR, Ont. - A woman who left her home in the temporary care of a couple returned to make a gruesome discovery in the refrigerator: a pot containing the remains of what appeared to be a cooked cat.

"It is strange, there is no question about it," Windsor police Staff Sgt. Ed McNorton said Monday about the alleged killing and eating of the pet. "We've seen animal abuse before ... but nothing like this."

Officers were called to a west-end duplex Sunday night by a woman who had left her apartment in the care of a 24-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman.

The tenant came home to find the place abandoned and in disarray. Then she looked in the fridge.

"It was absolutely disgusting, I couldn't believe it," said neighbor Sherry Hughes, who entered the apartment and saw the animal's remains.

Police suspect it's all that's left of Prowler, who lived with the Hughes family and went missing less than a week earlier.

"It's very upsetting, very, very heartbreaking," said Hughes, adding her children and grandmother are extremely distraught.

Flyers of the missing cat remained posted on utility poles in the area Monday.

"Even the bums in downtown Windsor don't lower themselves to that," said Jen Birdgen, whose family lives in the adjoining duplex unit.

The act of eating an animal isn't illegal, said John Roushorne, general manager of the Windsor-Essex County Humane Society, but how it got into the pot is an entirely different matter.

McNorton said police believe the animal was killed in the bathtub and then hung from the showerhead.

The couple that lived temporarily in the house were interviewed by detectives Monday morning and released pending further investigation.

McNorton said police could lay unlawful killing of an animal charges, a summary offence punishable by up to six months jail and or a $2,000 fine.

Roushorne said if cruelty can be proven, more severe penalties can be sought independently by the humane society.

But did they use maple syrup?

Just out of curiosity, is the killing of a domestic animal (not sure about the term domestic, cats/dogs/goldfish etc) in itself unlawfull ?

Only if you are not the owner ?

Only if you kill it in a cruel way ?

I'm pretty sure that killing an animal that doesn't belong to you is illegal everywhere. At the very least it should count as poaching.

I'm sure this is normal in northern ontario. Probably around MooseJaw too.

Quote from: Windsor Star

Accused pet eater offers an apology
Speaks to cat owner at court

Sarah Sacheli
Windsor Star

June 1, 2005

COURT APPEARANCE: Tiffany Baillargeon, right, and Vance Brown prepare Tuesday to enter the downtown courthouse, where they faced charges related to the killing and eating of a pet cat.

Sherry Hughes came face-to-face Tuesday with the young couple accused of killing and eating her family's pet cat.

Vance Brown, 24, and Tiffany L. Baillargeon, 18, made their first court appearance Tuesday on charges of killing an animal.

They are to return to court later this month once they contact legal aid about retaining a lawyer.

Brown approached Hughes outside the Ontario courthouse during a court recess to apologize, Hughes said.

"I don't forgive them, but it's better than nothing," Hughes said of the apology.

Brown and Baillargeon are accused of killing and eating Prowler, the Hughes family's five-year-old cat that shared their home in the 3200 block of Edison Street.

Prowler had been missing for a week in April when a neighbour found a pot in her refrigerator containing a cat that had been boiled whole.

Hughes said she believes the cat was already dead when her family posted flyers in the neighbourhood offering a reward for the cat's return.

She said the friendly cat wore a pink collar and could not have been mistaken for a stray.

The neighbour who made the gruesome discovery believed the cat had been killed by a man and woman who had been staying at her home.

The pair allegedly told police they had killed the cat because they were hungry.

Hughes's mother, Karen Smith, accompanied her daughter to court Tuesday, along with other family members. She scolded Brown when he approached her daughter to apologize. "You knew that was someone's pet," she told him.

Smith, who volunteers for a feline rescue organization, said she had to convince colleagues to not turn out en masse to the court date. After the court appearance, Brown declined to comment.

Jesus fucking Christ. They couldn't have found a stray cat? And they left it in the FRIDGE for the owners to find?

Death penalty. Not for killing the cat, for being stupid.

All that matters is how the cat was killed. The whole eating thing is just making people emotional because people in this part of the world humanize animals, even treating them equal to or better than people in many respects. Even hanging the cat up after it was dead isn't cruel (it's dead!), especially because it needs to be bled properly for health reasons if it is to be eaten.

If they killed the cat by drowning it in the bathtub, which is horribly cruel, then the current legal system won't punish them enough to suit me. People who are cruel to animals are sociopathic and need to be removed from society. Permanently. Being cruel to something helpless like a pet almost always is an indicator that they'll do it (or worse) to people.

If they killed the cat humanely, then this really ought to be about destruction of property, not animal cruelty. The confusion results because most city folk think that simply killing an animal, which happens on a farm every day and puts that juicy steak in front of you, is animal cruelty. It isn't. The only difference between a cat and a cow is the cultural difference that we artificially impose.

Leaving it in the fridge for its owner to find was just plain sick, though. There ought to be some legal recourse for that.

Now hang on - I'm SURE there was a Stephen King story about that one !!!

Is his teacher Mr Dooshander ?

Were these two so poor they couldn't walk themselves down to the local market and buy a chicken?

/shrug

They're latent (or perhaps not so latent) psychopaths. Everything about these two screams Cruel & Lacking Any Human Empathy.