Kitten beaten almost to death
Bigfork, MT (US)Incident Date: Friday, Nov 24, 2006
County: Flathead
Disposition: Alleged
Alleged: Tim Dalton
On November 24, an employee of Sliter's in Bigfork brought a badly beaten six-month old kitten to the Flathead County Animal Control for rabies testing. The cat had been in Sliters store for about a week. Store employees tried to lure the cat out of the store to no avail. The morning of the incident, Tim Dalton (store manager) and two other employees tried to catch the kitten (without gloves); all three were bitten. Reacting to the pain of the bite, Mr. Dalton then bludgeoned the cat to death. Except, when it arrived at animal control, the poor animal was not yet dead; it was in shock and suffering from trauma to the head and bleeding from the nose. They euthanized the kitten and sent it in for rabies testing, then reported Mr. Dalton to the sheriff's office for cruelty to animals. References« MT State Animal Cruelty Map
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