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Woman who put cat in washing machine escapes jail
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6331411.stmA woman who killed her boyfriend's cat by putting it in a washing machine has received a four-month suspended jail sentence.
Diane Hannon, 42, from Old Colwyn, Conwy, admitted causing unnecessary suffering and cruelly ill-treating six-year-old Paws, who was deaf.
Paws suffered a heart attack, severe burns and loss of fur.
As far as I'm concerned it takes a special kind of cunt to do such a thing. Whether it should be jail or a mental institution I'm not sure, but anyone who does that should be sent inside. Someone so twisted cannot be safe to have around...
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she should definately have done time
in my opinion, anyone who does something like that to a helpless animal is scum
I swatted a fly last night, I expect the cops are on the way now............
I like the way they fell it necessary to tell us that the cat was deaf, presumably to increase the sympathy for the poor fluffy beast, ahhhhhh isn't it sad? Maybe you are all 8 year old girls in reality, you never can tell on the internet.......
So there is no ethical difference between killing a fly (quickly) and torturing a cat?
Are you completely unmoved by this cruelty? Do you think a fly has the same perception of fear that a mammal has?
Advocating serious jail time for being mean to a cat is lunacy.
Hippies.....
Well if you are valuing animal life then killing the fly is obviously worse than torturing the cat unless you have some sensible way to explain why we should value a cat and not a fly?
The cat died too, by the way ... the woman wasn't just 'being mean'.
I presume that you have never had a pet yourself and/or don't particularly like animals?
Of course they're being serious. Are you?
I don't really think there was any need to increase the sympathy felt as it makes no difference to the cruelty inflicted; but if the cat was missing one of its [most vital] senses then it does say even more about the moral fibre of the woman concerned imo.
This woman had no qualms about torturing a cat as a release for her rage (or "depression") and who's to say she wouldn't have instead tortured her boyfriend if she'd considered herself physically able to -- and that she'd get away with it. It is reprehensible to act out vengance against another human being by torturing an animal, she must be seriously unglued.
And you too, Toadborg, for not seeing that?
You a Psychologist are you?
and nice to see that people believe that the mentally ill should be punished for their ways, less sympathy for humans than for dumb animals?
Like I said what would be the precise legal way of defining why torturing a cat is worse than killing a fly?
I don't agree with wanton animal cruelty, but the idea that the state should inflict serious punishment to the degree of incarcerating someone for animal cruelty is quite plainly ridiculous, the prisons would be full of chefs who have cooked lobster, and presumably by extension those who have eaten it as well..........
Well, for a start given both died I presume you can see the benefit of the quick death for the fly?
Secondly, cats can percieve fear, and understand what is happening to them, unlike the fly.
Thirdly, if this cat was the pet of the woman then the cat would see the woman as its parent, and although its going a bit too far to think that the cat felt betrayal, there is enough going on in the head of the cat to know this isnt right.
If I understand you right, torturing animals is perfectly fine, does this mean anything other than a human is ripe for the washing machine treatment?
If you freeze them first (as virtually all restaurants do these days) they dont wake up in time to feel the pain, and therefore have a humane exit.
Yes the practises used to cook some meat and seafood are not great, I don't like them at all. But the [huge, huge] difference is that this woman plucked this cat from its bed or wherever it was sitting [probably licking its own arse and minding its own business], popped it into the washing machine and put it to certain death as a direct result of being pissed off with her boyfriend. She not only decided it was ok to inflict huge trauma and pain on an animal to release her own anger, but she did it with the sole intention of devastating her boyfriend. That is fucking horrible. She punished a cat as a result of her grievances in her relationship, and anyone who does that is probably on quite a slippery slope.
She needs help, indeed, and I hope she gets it... but I'll be damned if I;m going to profess to having any sympathy for her.
So this act is a crime because the cat felt 'betrayed'?
This must be a comedy thread, you aren't serious?
Are you?
I might be - but that's irrelevant.
Are YOU the psychologist now? Where does the story say she IS mentally ill?
You know the two are completely different. But if you feel that there ought not to be a differentiation, try and get the law changed. At the moment, that cat IS protected by law. Cats have many of the same emotions and senses as humans - affection, fear, etc. A fly does not.
Personally, I feel lobsters ought not to be boiled alive ...
I'm not saying that this was not a cruel act, what I am saying is that i would never consider sending this woman to prison for it.
I assume everyone would agree that the woman was cruel, the purpose of the thread ( I assume) was to discuss the view by the thread creator that this woman should be sent to prison......
Seriously, if you harmed my cat I would kill you.
People invest lots of emotion in their animals. If you can't understand that, you must be dead inside somewhere.
Nice to see you didnt read even the small section of my post you quoted.
But, given you didnt seem to understand it the first time I will explain. Because of the way we treat cats, feeding them, stroking them, looking after them, cutting their nuts off.... they are basically large kittens all their life, and as the provider of strokes and food we are their parents.
Are you being serious? You really can't understand that people invest emotionally in pets? :eek:
Under your assumptions, not mine: Obviously.......
So it rests on whether the animal has any 'human' emotions?
What about rats, should we be allowed to exterminate them?
Thats because you are a nutter, you didn't need to tell me that, I have realised it for some time......
Rats, unlike cats spread disease. And modern poison is actually reasonably humane (more humane as it happens than the lethal injection in the US).
I totally agree, though I'd opt for the latter. Hopefully the review of her mental health will obligate her to undergo some kind of rehabilitation as she should not be allowed to just walk away from this (and no, public derision isn't enough of a punishment, though I'm sure she'll experience her share of that).
So the person whould be punished because of the emotional harm done to the owner, not the physical harm done to the animal?
So if the cat had been a stray, the act would not be a crime?
So the fact that the cat is 'property' is what matters?
(doesn't sound very Marxist to me :chin: )
What if they didn't spread disease, but my house was infested with them and the only method available to kill them would cause the rats serious pain?
So animal cruelty should get you locked up under the presumption of some kind of mental illness?
I sure hope people like you never get into power in anyway, makes you lokk more favourably on the current politicians really.......
You seriously can't see that people have huge emotional attachments to their pets? :eek:
Me and my partner don't have children. We have a cat and the emotions that we transfer onto our cat are similar to ones we might have for our children if we had any. Basic human psychology. For you not to understand that, makes me think you're either (a) being deliberatly obtuse for the sake of an argument and that you do understand it or (b) that you're emotionally quite seriously damaged in some way or (c) you have a lot of growing up to do.
No - the law applies to ANY animal cruelty like this ... not just to those with owners.