SOUTH FLORIDA, USA – NEWS AND COMMENT: If you don’t mind, I won’t go onto great detail but Cheryn Smilen, 56, pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges after she starved cats that she had hoarded in her small apartment. She … Continue reading →
I’m referring to the UK but this argument may well apply to many other countries. Depending on the circumstances, in the UK, it is better for the prosecuting authorities to charge a person with criminal damage and not animal cruelty … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: In violation of New York State law governing the commercial possession and sale of wild cat species such as the caracal and serval, Christopher Casacci, 38, of Amherst, traded in these exotic African cats under the guise … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: Shirley Gear-Evans, 65, a widow of Adber, near Sherborne in Dorset, UK, said that she can’t have another cat because her neighbour admittedly drowned her cat, Ruby, in a water butt. Her neighbour is Richard Giles, 69, … Continue reading →
EDMONTON, CANADA: You may remember this case from spring 2018. It was quite high profile at the time and was treated as a serious event by the Humane Society resulting in Mariah Berini being charged with causing or permitting animals … Continue reading →
The police have arrested a man who they believe attacked 16 cats, nine of whom where killed over eight months in Brighton, England, UK. His name is Steven Bouquet, 52, a security guard. The Crown Prosecution Service decided to charge … Continue reading →
It is all over the online news: Sean Stanford allegedly shooting a domestic cat in the face (twice as I recall) at his auto business, Solid Technology in Albuquerque. Remarkably the cat has survived. The cat liked to visit the … Continue reading →
They committed a disgusting crime of animal cruelty against someone’s pet cat. In the UK we can’t name them for legal reasons because they are teenagers. However, an American, outside of UK jurisdiction, has named them. In the age of … Continue reading →
I am revisiting a story I wrote on June 23rd about a boy who tortured and killed a domestic cat in Clinton, Iowa (opens a new window). The boy is Jonathan Trude. He is 12-years-of-age. His parents say that he … Continue reading →
This is a surprising story because it concerns nuns who are trapping and relocating cats without permission. They have made the presumption that the cats are strays by which they seem to mean that they think that the cats do … Continue reading →
