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Freddy the beloved NYC bodega cat is killed by dogs as their female owner, pals ‘cheered’: activists
NY Post ^ | 07/06/2025 | Nicole Rosenthal

Posted on 07/07/2025 6:24:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A beloved Manhattan bodega cat was horrifically mauled to death by two pit bulls last week as the dogs’ heartless female owner and pals “watched and cheered,” animal rescuers claimed to The Post.

Tragic adorable tabby Freddy was attacked around 9 p.m. Friday outside Michelle Flowers, where he lived, in Washington Heights, according to volunteer rescuers with Cat Collective NY, who said they looked at surveillance video and spoke with witnesses.

The pit bulls’ owner and pals then smoked, danced and ate food while taking photos and mimicking the grisly scene, the group told The Post.

“Someone deliberately set dogs on a defenseless cat while people watched and cheered,” said Dan Rimada of Bodega Cats of New York — calling the incident pure “evil.”

While the store was closed and its owners were home during the attack, local residents who saw the gruesome event alerted a local feeder with Cat Collective, which in turn informed the flower-shop-bodega owners, who had rescued Freddy in 2020.

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To: 9YearLurker

Yes. See my post just before this one. It explains where I’m coming from.

FWIW, I’m against animal cruelty laws. Not because I think it’s ok to be cruel to animals, but because I think it’s outside the Government’s swim lane. They are literally property. And the bible tells us to “be good” to them, but in the same way your dad taught you to change the oil in your car. Be good to it and it will be good to you.

Unless it’s a Polar bear, of course. 😁


21 posted on 07/07/2025 7:23:39 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: cuban leaf

Couldn’t disagree with you more.


22 posted on 07/07/2025 7:26:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Well, I actually do understand your position, and I’m tempted to get the government involved, but I don’t trust them to draw the line where I would. Just like you can get in trouble for spanking your kids now.

And we all saw that coming in the 70’s. That’s why we are where we are today regarding recent generations’ disrespect for the law in general, IMO


23 posted on 07/07/2025 7:29:18 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Antihero101607
a special kind of messed up.

There are a lot of 'special kind of messed up" people around these days.

24 posted on 07/07/2025 7:29:42 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: 4Runner

Im on my third recued pitty something couch cushion over two decades. Simply Bad dog owners exist with every bread. We have a couple of older kittens with claws play with a our puppies and the puppies are never interested in a cat again, they rather snuggle with the humans. A motivated out of control jack rustle on genetic drive and a cat just takes longer for the cat to not live. There is a reason why cats reproduce so quickly in near wild conditions, everything bigger is a threat, everything smaller is kitty lunch. CATS are not apex predators, they are not hunting companions, they are not happy go lucky like a dog, a long life ends in slow walking and hiding out for near a decade. They are friends to lesbians and old maids. They barely can be household members, they get away with their shit only because it is contained to a box and very limited fraction are good at mouse and rat control. They are attached to human society, not a member of it.


25 posted on 07/07/2025 7:31:10 AM PDT by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I hate this story and was very angry when I read it last night - especially the part about the pitbull dog owners laughing as the cat was killed.

Usual suspect, of course.

That said, I make sure my cats are inside at night.


26 posted on 07/07/2025 7:38:13 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: cuban leaf

Do-gooders always need to be beaten back a bit. ;-)

But I’ll deal with that instead of a society that abuses animals without sanction.


27 posted on 07/07/2025 7:42:59 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: lee martell

Agreed. Anyone who laughs at a small, helpless animal being torn to shreds by two large pit bulls will do the same when people are attacked - and we have plenty of video evidence of that.

My cats keep mice and rats out of the house and out of my fruit trees and are a valuable asset, along with purring, curling up on laps and providing stress relief to humans - I live in coyote country, they’ll jump 9-foot fences to get at cats and dogs and plenty have been killed in my neighborhood.

I keep my animals in at night.


28 posted on 07/07/2025 7:44:25 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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29 posted on 07/07/2025 8:13:47 AM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accoountant, gun-oktotin' Grandma - multi issue voter )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Still, “harm or death to an animal caused by another animal is not a criminal matter,” an NYPD rep has told The Post – a matter that has left owners of mauled pets with NO AVENUES FOR JUSTICE OUTSIDE OF CIVIL COURT.”

That last part is completely backwards. Justice might not be obtainable IN court, but can definitely be had OUTSIDE of court.


30 posted on 07/07/2025 8:23:48 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: ChessExpert
The headline is stupidly written. That's becoming the norm, sadly. If taken as written, it's saying "the owner" is the owner of the cat, since, Freddy (the cat) is the subject.

Dunno which is worse. AI or today's semiliterate journalist.

31 posted on 07/07/2025 8:24:24 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist.)
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To: Bon of Babble

We even have on of those anti-feline turds on this thread who maintain “It’s all on the ‘bad owners’” crap that pop up with regularity on these threads.

Funny how Golden Retrievers never seem to rip out the throats of people. Always seems to be pit bulls.


32 posted on 07/07/2025 8:25:28 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wut is wrong? They own pitties. Pitties are genetically oriented toward unprovoked violence. Owning one (while defending like other arseholes defend sharks) indicates that you are either out of your mind or just like hurting others.


33 posted on 07/07/2025 8:35:07 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: antidemoncrat

They’re so stupid that they don’t realize the raft of felonies coming for them.


34 posted on 07/07/2025 8:46:04 AM PDT by kiryandil (<i>10 teens at a summer camp died during a flash-flood event from a storm that dumped 11 inches of r)
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To: kiryandil
In the article, they show the cat and two dogs (apparently from security cameras it looks) before the attack, and you can see one of these people off to the side:

I do fault the owners of the cat for letting it run free.

But that is a different kind of stupidity and sickness from the likes of people who cheer on the breed, the fact that they were set deliberately onto another animal to cruelly maul and kill it.

35 posted on 07/07/2025 8:57:50 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: rlmorel

The authoritays gonna git they.


36 posted on 07/07/2025 9:03:51 AM PDT by kiryandil (<i>10 teens at a summer camp died during a flash-flood event from a storm that dumped 11 inches of r)
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To: cuban leaf
BTW, I shot a Robin with my new BB gun when I was in 6th grade (1966). It haunted me for quite a while.

Same here. It's haunted me all my life.

37 posted on 07/07/2025 9:05:37 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Once they’ve killed their own babies who else matters after that?


38 posted on 07/07/2025 9:18:07 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: spankalib

Yeah. Kind of the same for me. I was in the eighth grade, first time I ever shot a real BB gun, and I lined up on a small bird sitting in a bush probably 20 feet away.

I didn’t think I would hit it, but I did, and the mortally wounded bird fluttered around piteously on the ground until I put it out of its misery with the butt of the BB gun.

I am all for hunting, but what I did wasn’t “hunting”. It was random cruelty, and I regretted it. I learned a lesson from that.


39 posted on 07/07/2025 9:20:50 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: protoconservative

I had a cat that ate brown recluse spiders for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.


40 posted on 07/07/2025 10:05:11 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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