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Man Charged With Animal Cruelty After Tossing Kitten To Pit Bull
AP ^ | 9/24/05

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.


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KEYWORDS: animalcruelty; culturalentropy
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Toss him to a hungry lion.


81 posted on 09/25/2005 8:13:37 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: Cheburashka

Good points. This guys acts warns us of his character; odds are that he's dangerous.


82 posted on 09/25/2005 8:13:57 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Finally, people understand that Liberalism IS a religion! Faith (twisted) rather than logic.)
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To: PositiveCogins
Whats the difference in a kitten and a dog ,and a mouse and a pet snake? One can be just as cruel in his own mind by having a pet snake just for the joy of watching it eat a mouse. Yet its ok.

The main point, to me, is that he grabbed a little girl's beloved pet out of her lap, and had his dog kill it. If it was my kid's pet, I would have been tempted to return the favor by stuffing him into the trunk of my car and going down south to look for a nice alligator

83 posted on 09/25/2005 8:16:38 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Never try to teach a pig to sing -- it wastes your time and it annoys the pig)
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To: PositiveCogins
If you are having difficulty drawing a line between someone feeding a pet snake a rat and the incident described in the post, you need to work on some other areas before you tackle this one.
84 posted on 09/25/2005 8:33:31 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: PositiveCogins
Yeah, and if the guy came up, took the mouse away from kids who were playing with their friend's "pet" and then threw it to is snake, he would still be a scumbag, just like here.

Are you not getting this?

85 posted on 09/25/2005 10:50:41 AM PDT by bluefish (Holding out for worthy tagline...)
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To: Keith in Iowa

I had a German Shepherd/Collie mix who hunted the neighbor's cats, tore them apart and ate them. Also did this to skunks. Had to keep her penned up.


86 posted on 09/25/2005 1:57:17 PM PDT by OldMagazine (You can only do what you can do.)
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To: PositiveCogins

Just fore discussion
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87 posted on 09/25/2005 2:21:02 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear
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To: bluefish

I was thinking it, but I couldn't phrase it as laconically as you did. Good job!


88 posted on 09/25/2005 5:01:22 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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