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This was on News 12 today:
(04/16/06) WEST ISLIP - A West Islip man is accused of kidnapping a neighbor’s cat and having the animal put to sleep.
Police arrested Richard DeSantis, 56, Saturday. The cat’s owner, Regina Fagone, says she alerted police after checking the Islip Animal Shelter where she found out a cat matching Cole’s description was euthanized. Fagone says she filed a letter to the town attorney to find out who authorized the procedure. The document has DeSantis’ signature. Fagone believes that her neighbor also killed two of her cats in 1998, but she did not press charges then.
The DeSantis family declined to comment about the situation. DeSantis faces three misdemeanors and is scheduled to appear in court in June.
I'm sorry, but I'm really pissed off about this - and more pissed at Regina Fagone than at the psycho that allegedly killed the cat. Why, if this woman believed that her neighbor killed her pets in years past, would she continue to let them roam around outdoors????
I don't want to offend anyone that disagrees with me or has outside cats, but as a cat owner myself, I find it sad that so many people allow their cats to roam around outside unsupervised. Anything could happen - which is why we often see so much ROADKILL. Local pet shelters like the Bide - a- Wee won't even allow people to adopt cats if they don't promise to keep them indoors.
It's really not that hard to clean a litter box!
Pet owners really need to get their heads out of their asses!
(04/16/06) WEST ISLIP - A West Islip man is accused of kidnapping a neighbor’s cat and having the animal put to sleep.
Police arrested Richard DeSantis, 56, Saturday. The cat’s owner, Regina Fagone, says she alerted police after checking the Islip Animal Shelter where she found out a cat matching Cole’s description was euthanized. Fagone says she filed a letter to the town attorney to find out who authorized the procedure. The document has DeSantis’ signature. Fagone believes that her neighbor also killed two of her cats in 1998, but she did not press charges then.
The DeSantis family declined to comment about the situation. DeSantis faces three misdemeanors and is scheduled to appear in court in June.
I'm sorry, but I'm really pissed off about this - and more pissed at Regina Fagone than at the psycho that allegedly killed the cat. Why, if this woman believed that her neighbor killed her pets in years past, would she continue to let them roam around outdoors????
I don't want to offend anyone that disagrees with me or has outside cats, but as a cat owner myself, I find it sad that so many people allow their cats to roam around outside unsupervised. Anything could happen - which is why we often see so much ROADKILL. Local pet shelters like the Bide - a- Wee won't even allow people to adopt cats if they don't promise to keep them indoors.
It's really not that hard to clean a litter box!
Pet owners really need to get their heads out of their asses!