Man Arrested for Animal Abuse

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The police in Sweden have arrested a man for harming animals, he nailed a cat to the door of a police station.

I am glad that he has not been near any of my animals !

Do you think he is bad or mad ?

http://www.thelocal.se/21560/20090819/? ... content=98

[visceral title changed in consideration of our more sensitive members - M.]

Definitely mad. Yes, the cat was already dead when he nailed it to the door. Is it possible that at least some of these animals he used to get attention might have been found as roadkill?

Whew, at least the cat was dead when hailed it to the door. I wonder if he killed it first?

What a catastrophy (cat as trophy)!

Sorry, a sick double pun, but I cannot help it.

He confessed to the acts of animal cruelty so saddly I don't think the cats were all ready dead. I'm also happy he wasn't near any of my furrry babies woodpecker. It's why my cats are all indoor now, I have in the past let other cats go in and out but the little girls I have now never get to play outside unless I'm with them in our yard. I think he's a bad, bad person and I'm reminded of stories about how serial killers started with things like this. Jeffer Dahmer started with dogs and other animals. They send in the cps to homes were animals have been neglected to check on any kids in the home most of the time if they aren't feeding and bathing the dog they aren't feeding and bathing the baby.

That is one reason why I live in the woods and have a perimeter alarm system as well as a high fence. I want the kids and animals at our home to be safe.

Well I have no idea why someone would nail a cat to a door, it is an act which I can not understand. The only other case I have heard of a person nailing things to doors was Luther who nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Germany, but I imagine that this man did not have anything nearly as interesting to say for himself.

When I worked for an animal rescue in Liverpool, we used to find every halloween lots of horrible scenes of animal abuse. I always remember a cat who was staple gunned to a wall in a cruciform position with some ritualistic rubbish around her. The cat actually survived. So too did three of her unborn kits.

But that was one of the worst things I've ever seen.

This is not as uncommon as you'd hope.

Martin Luther Kat?

What a terrible thing to do.

It makes me sick when people treat animals so badly.

Was it his cat? If so, then why should he be punished? If it was someone else's cat, then he should be punished for violating the property rights of the cat's owner.

ruveyn

Under Swedish law you are not allowed to cause unecessary suffering to an animal. You obviously don't think animals deserve to be protected from unecessary suffering, but the Swedes do. He's being punished for breaking the law.

Because not everyone shares your belief that life does not have inherent value, ruveyn. And where does one draw the line - is someone you consider inferior as fair game as a four legged feline?


M.

Animal cruelty is horrible regardless of the person who inflicts it, although I believe that this man in particular was not doing it because he was malicious but because he was extremely ill. It's tough to even think like that when an animal has been killed, but regardless of his condition, he should still face charges. Sadly, animals feel pain and therefore suffer extensively when they are mistreated. If the animal survives, then it is often scarred for life and a lot aren't re-homed because of their behavioural problems. The animal loses no matter what. Animal cruelty makes me sad.

Ruveyn, it's called "unwarranted use of force". The man clearly had no useful motives for doing this other than his own.

1. I consider human life higher than that of a non-human animal or plant.

2. I do not abuse non-human animals (except in self defense). I gain nothing from inflicting gratuitous pain upon an animal, so I don't do it. But that is my preference and inclination. Why should the force of law be used to impose that modality? Law is for protecting humans and their property.

ruveyn