Posted on 12/04/2012 2:16:05 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —
A St. Petersburg man was arrested and charged with four counts of animal cruelty and one count of battery after a visitor at his home found four kittens in the freezer, police said.
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One of the kittens was dead when deputies arrived at the home late Sunday afternoon.
Deputies said Rodney J. Blanchard, 49, asked a visitor at his home to get him a beer out of the freezer.
When the visitor went to the freezer, Blanchard told her that there were kittens inside of it, deputies said. According to deputies, the visitor tried to get them out of the freezer, but Blanchard pushed her out of the way.
The visitor left Blanchard's home and called the sheriff's office.
When deputies approached the freezer, they heard cats "meow," and they found the kittens inside individual sandwich bags on the bottom shelf, authorities said.
A white calico cat was dead. Three others were alive, but they were shaking and covered with fleas.
They were taken to the Emergency Care Center At Tampa Bay Veterinary Specialists in Largo, and they are now in the care of the SPCA.
Amen.
Go for the dangly bits.
Bwahaha! I love when a smart *ss gets called for ignorant spelling!
The maniac the did this to those little kittens needs to be tortured. Maybe we could loan him to the Marines and they can test new procedures on him!
As my mother used to say, “Don’t MAKE me come up there!”
Beautiful. So much for smart-a##es.
I honestly don't understand how the torture of God's little innocent creatures is anything to joke about.
It’s more of a life long avocation.
He’s very cutting edge.
The SPCA did get a little excited over the
pig art though.
He actually started a church but was frightened
by the power it unleashed.
Church of the Future tm.
As an ordained minister, I know the meaning of
“A hand shake and a piece of the pie.”
It wasn’t for just everyone, but it’s surprizing
how many people would come up and say,
“Tell us what to believe!” You could almost
say they were democrats.
Our sacred wafers really worked, nothing ersatz
about THEM.
Oh, the pigs weren’t dead they were very much alive.
He had constructed this sort of ark about thirty feet
long and had steel plates set in the deck connected
to a sequencer and a cattle transformer.
The idea was the pigs would be turned loose and the
sequence of shocks from the plates would make the
pigs run fore and aft and the whole thing would rock
to musical accompaniment.
Someone complained to the SPCA and they shut down the
exhibit, too bad it would have been rockin.
He was ahead of his time.
This is the first time I’ve ever read through a kitty-ping thread and wished I hadn’t. The subject of the article was sad enough, but the contributions from ‘tet68’ and ‘tired&retired’ were so off-putting I’m closing down the computer to get away from it.
Disgusting, the pair of you.
I agree. All tet68 and tired&retired proved is that they have the brains and sensitivity of a pile of diseased mucus. As for the sub-human who subjected these cat babies to this, I’d like to take a dozen rusty skewers and stick them in various places around his abdomen, avoiding major organs. And then just to take his mind off the pain, apply some napalm to his family jewels and ignite it. Finally, take the mess created and stake it out near a fire ant nest. This should give him ample time to reflect upon the concept of cruelty.
Nice one. If you catch him, let me know and I’ll give you a hand.
Thanks. Then we could say we “nerked” him!
My apologies. I actually love cats. Have one in my house, even though I am a bit allergic to cats.
I just have a sick sense of humor. Having grown up on a farm, it takes a lot more than a verbal comment about animals to effect me. Thus I tend to be a bit calloused. Sorry about that. Guess I am not very politically correct when it comes to cats.
I could relate to the article as I used to run a trap line when I was a teenager. One day I caught a lot of muskrats and didn’t have time to skin them out and put the hides on stretchers before school. So I just threw them in the chest freezer. My mother just about had a heart attack when she opened the freezer later in the day and there they were, right on top looking at her. Yes, they were dead but she didn’t know that!
I was out to dinner with a group of veterinarians and my farm vet said to the rest of the table, “The life expectancy of my cats is a $2 vet bill. If it’s over that, there is nothing they can do!” At the time I had 20+ cats on my farm.
I used to give my cats their shots myself. They are tougher skinned than any other animal I have ever injected. First time I didn’t wrap a towel around this big tom cat. I had it on my lap and stuck the needle in the scruff of its neck. Cat took off, tore my leg to shreds with its claws, and bent the needle. Cleaned up my blood, caught the cat, wrapped it in a towel and repeated the process. The darn medicine squirted out the first hole as I injected it the second time. It lived...
“Sharks don’t eat kittens. They eat squid, mackerel and humans.”
They absolutely love small animals swimming with their legs going 90 miles an hour. I’ve seen sharks snag gulls. Come after our balloons we use for bobbers, other fish, plastic bags, you name it... Used to go shark fishing quite a bit. Haven’t done it in years.
This is one of the reasons why I rarely ping “downer” stories. Please take some consolation from the fact that three precious kittens were rescued.
I once caught some big sandbar sharks off Mazatlan in Mexico—I think we were using squid for bait, or lures.
A few years ago, I went on a party boat out of Newport Beach, Calif. that was going specifically for sharks. First, we caught a bunch of mackerel, which we used for bait. We were hoping to catch makos, which are good eating, but only one or two at the most were bagged, as well as a couple of blue sharks. Otherwise, we were skunked.
We once had a mother cat who was killed by a car right after having kittens. We fed the kitties milk using the sort of toy baby bottles that little girls use when they play with dolls and eventually got them to eat solid food before we gave them away.
I ended up with a litter of four when the same thing happened to the neighbour’s cat, she wasn’t interested in looking after them, and I still have them.
I do wish people who live in the suburbs near traffic would keep their cats in the house.
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