Posted on 09/24/2005 11:15:49 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Man Charged With Animal Cruelty After Tossing Kitten To Pit Bull
Nicholasville, KY (AP) -- A man was charged with first-degree cruelty to animals after allowing his pit bull to maul a kitten to death, police said.
Roger Alan Fairchild, 24, of Nicholasville is accused of taking the kitten named Midnight on Sept. 1 and pitching it to his pit bull named Damien, police said. Fairchild was charged shortly after he threatened to order the dog to attack two officers, police said.
The kitten belonged to Shanelle Crowe, 12, who lives in an apartment complex behind Fairchild's home.
Shanelle did not witness the incident, but apparently other youngsters did, police said.
The kitten often wandered up and down a sidewalk in front of the apartment complex. On the night of Sept. 1, several youngsters were petting the kitten when Fairchild walked up and grabbed it, said Nicholasville police Lt. John Branscum.
"A 12-year-old who had the cat in her lap asked 'What are you doing?' and he said, 'I'm feeding my dog,"' Branscum said. Fairchild then took the kitten inside his home. One girl followed in an attempt to retrieve the kitten and saw Fairchild throw it to the dog.
Fairchild initially was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, terroristic threatening and menacing, all misdemeanors, and lodged in the Jessamine County jail.
He wasn't charged with the felony animal-cruelty charge until this week, Branscum said, because it took several days to get a warrant signed.
Shanelle Crowe's father, Tom Crowe, said his daughter and 17-year-old stepdaughter "were pretty bad for a while" but have since acquired a kitten named Blackie.
In case you missed it, it wasn't his "private property" to begin with.
Animal cruelty and the laws against it trumps your inane "private property" argument. To think otherwise is daft.
Are you sure you're not a libertarian? It sounds like you're being coy-- the beginnings of a typical libertarian attempt at entrapment.
Well, relax, at least I didn't imply you might be a PETA member.
I'm saying the bathroom, 'cuz it will be easier for the landlord to clean up....
Shoot the dog.
Neuter him.
Some people have mice for pets too.
I sat in a very tight spot in the backseat with crates carrying 3 adult cats and 5 kittens to evacuate the hurricane winds that were predicted(thankfully changed)in our area..
The thought that one could be so cruel to one of these kittens is appalling.The man is dangerous to humans,too, if he is so cruel to a kitten. He also traumatized the children...
"Cruelty is one thing and what you do with your own private property is another." This was your original statement. I pointed out that the kitten wasn't his private property to begin with. Don't worry about making a fool of yourself with your statements; I did it earlier today on an unrelated thread :)
You have made your point, gotten some attention. Feel better?
See post #31 on this thread especially the last sentence :)
"making a fool of yourself with your statements" No. It
was just for discussion. How long will it be before "cruelty
to animals" is used for cows, chickens, pigs, etc? Who decides whats cruel and whats not?
Not yet but getting there.
No fool, dallink!!! You just used absurdity to make a point and then realized how clever you were!
Coat his gonads with blood and get the dog to maul him.
I couldn't and someone who would is one step away from Jeffrey Dahmer.
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