Case Details

Pregnant cat beaten with club, skinned
Elyria, OH (US)

Incident Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2005
County: Lorain
Local Map: available
Disposition: Convicted

Abuser/Suspect: Neil Lanning

Case ID: 4646
Classification: Mutilation/Torture, Beating
Animal: cat
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An Elyria man was sentenced to six months in jail on May 25 after pleading guilty to a cruelty charge for beating to death his pregnant cat and skinning her.

Neil Lanning was arrested by police on the afternoon of May 24 around 2 p.m. after they responded to a call that he had killed a cat with a club and was skinning it in an alley behind his home on Penrose Court in South Park Apartments, according to Elyria police.

A maintenance worker reported to police that he saw Lanning beat the cat with a club, go into his apartment and return with a knife to cut the cat, according to the police report.

Officers reported when they approached Lanning, 26, he ''had a knife in his hand and appeared to be cutting open the placenta of a pregnant cat,'' according to the report.

Lanning told police he had killed the cat because the cat killed his bird, according to the report.

''Lanning advised that he was mad at the cat after it killed his bird, therefore, he beat the cat to death,'' and that the ''bird cost him a lot of money'' and the ''cat cost him nothing,'' according to the report.

Both the cat and its unborn kittens were dead by the time officers arrived, according to the report.

Upon being arrested on a cruelty to animals charge, Lanning became ''very belligerent and disorderly, yelling and screaming at officers,'' according to the report.

Lanning told police he could do whatever he wanted to the animal since it was his, and he didn't care if he was arrested for animal cruelty since the cat ate his bird.

Lanning was held on a $1,000 bond and then entered a guilty plea to the first degree misdemeanor charge yesterday before Elyria Municipal Court Judge Lisa Locke Graves.

Graves sentenced Lanning to serve 180 days in jail, 30 of which would be suspended upon Lanning's completion of an anger management course. He was also ordered to pay $250 in fines, according to the court.

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The Morning Journal - May 26, 2005

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