Kitten thrown against TV
Victoria, BC (CA)Incident Date: Saturday, Jul 17, 2010
Disposition: Alleged
Alleged: 31 year old man
A 31-year-old Victoria man who is accused of throwing two kittens against a television screen while he was intoxicated is facing animal cruelty charges.
The man had been out grocery shopping on July 17, and returned around 3 p.m. to his house in the Burnside-Gorge neighbourhood, deputy police chief John Ducker wrote on the Victoria Police Department operations blog.
There, the man got into a fight with his mother, who also lives in the house. According to Ducker, the man picked up two of the family kittens and threw them against a TV screen, three metres across the room.
Victoria police were called, and when officers arrived, the mother said the argument stemmed from an alleged assault against one of the kittens a month earlier.
In that case, the mother alleged, her son was drunk and angry, and threw one of the kittens into the nearby Gorge Waterway. Family members were able to fish the cat out.
The woman told police that when her son picked up the 11-week-old kittens the second time, she thought he was going to go to the Gorge again, so she physically restrained him from leaving the house. In frustration, he threw them across the room, she told police.
Police spokesman Det. Rick Anthony said the kittens were unharmed but called the attack "horrific."
Officers arrested the man and charged him with two counts of animal cruelty for this month's incident. He was released on a promise to appear in court.
Anthony refused to release the accused's name or the street where the attack occurred. References |
