A group of teenage thugs in Cork heartlessly threw a defenseless cat to be mauled by their greyhounds and hunting dogs, in front of the cat’s two juvenile owners today.
Kathleen O’ Brien of Fairhill in Cork, a mother of five, owned Boots the cat for 17 years and wept as she told of how her pet was picked at random by teenagers to be slaughtered, reports the Irish Independent.
‘We had Boots for 17 years—he was just sitting outside our front door. The next thing, I was in the kitchen and I heard a load of banging on my front door and my windows’.
Kathleen left the house to discover Boots savaged and bloody surrounded by two of her traumatized children. The attack was very quick as Kathleen’s children could not interfere in time and the teens reportedly ran off laughing. She immediately took him to the vet but he died minutes later.
The local Gardai and CSPCA were contacted and authorities are investigating two similar attacks which saw a kitten and a rabbit torn apart, amid fears that they may be linked.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.| Sep 26, 2012, 05:05 PM EDT
i agree with Searlit and MacDolan...they should be found, their animals impounded and put down (because they've been taught now to kill for sport) and they should be prosecuted and have their punishment be something like cleaning animal shelters for the next ten years...with supervision so they can't hurt the animals...what a bunch of sickminded idiots...
aloistmartin | Sep 23, 2012, 06:11 PM EDT
bobby@ A Ghetto is an Ethnic phenomena, what you are talking about is a Slum; which would typify most Capitalist Cities below ( And about ) The "Uptown"... Solidarity to all Euro and Global, Republican, Green, Socialist, Marxist, and Revolutionary, Cause 1 Support the Arab Winter ! Occupy the Emmy`s !
bobby | Sep 23, 2012, 10:14 AM EDT
bogsidebunny what a load of crap in that comment. Worse than the Bronx??? Get real, some estates have their problems but no estate in ireland is worse than the ghettos you have in the states.
WoundedKnee | Sep 23, 2012, 10:04 AM EDT
I was in Ireland at one time when Dublin City was trying to enact measures to control all the ponies that are held by teenage owners in Dublin. As Bogside says, there are many cases of disgusting cruelty to these animals. But BigMouth Bono stuck his stupid ego into the argument, opposing the plan with nonsense about the "culture" of these teenagers. Then of course he went back to his yacht on the Riviera. How many horses and ponies have been tortured and killed in Ireland since that particular fool made his intervention?
bogsidebunny | Sep 23, 2012, 06:01 AM EDT
This folks is NOT uncommon. Pets and other stray animals (pibald hourses) are abused terribly and killed on a daily basis in the "ghettoes". The Irish housing estates were the great social plan to mix working class families with Welfare slugs. The working class folk's influences and work ethic example was supposed to magically make a bunch of unevolved Neanderthal like creatures turn into respectable citizens.........FAIL. Basically it worked in reverse. Those working class folks were driven from their homes and those who opposed the knuckledraggers had their cars and houses tourched (I mean that). Look into Moyross and South Hill in Limerick or the numerous estates in North Dublin and Cork. They are 100 times worse than the South Bronx ever was. I've seen them and I'll testify to the fact you can't convert social deviates by introducing "a fair society which redistributes the wealth" Sound familiar?
borefield | Sep 22, 2012, 08:50 PM EDT
Sickening is an understatement. As Garbo55 said, it's only a matter of time until their victim or victims are human beings.
aloistmartin | Sep 22, 2012, 08:36 PM EDT
Another example of the Failure of Bourgeois Capitalism, another Job for the (REAL ?) I.R.A !
teddybear | Sep 22, 2012, 03:35 PM EDT
Just how SICK can some people be???????
garbo55 | Sep 22, 2012, 02:58 PM EDT
Let's not forget those that are capable of doing this to animals are also capable of doing it to humans, it's just a matter of time...
Searlit | Sep 22, 2012, 12:31 PM EDT
It's terrifying that teenagers could do this for fun. They need some serious pschological help. The authorities should make sure they get it! The courts shouln't allow them to go unpunished!
Canal Rat | Sep 22, 2012, 12:21 PM EDT
They deserve a felony caning.
JudyStinger | Sep 22, 2012, 11:18 AM EDT
The main point is that these savages took pleasure in viscious attack. I don't want to try to understand what's going inside their twisted minds. All animals are God's creatures and are not put on this earth to be abused, tortured, used for experimentation or killed for some despicable person's entertainment. The gang that did this (and all animal abusers) need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and locked up - not simple slapped on the wrist and given probation. Laws have to be changed and penalties should be severe enough to stop all of this. These precious gifts from God have no voice - WE MUST BE THEIR VOICE!
mcdolan | Sep 22, 2012, 11:14 AM EDT
Disgusting, the bastards ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law -- perhaps made to financially support animal shelters for a few years, or given at least the least desirable community service projects. At 17 years of age, the poor cat was defenceless, but the trauma to those poor children is immeasurable. Violence begets violence and I hope somehow they will not suffer too long with such a horrible memory. What are we like??
CelticQueenUSA | Sep 22, 2012, 11:01 AM EDT
This has to be one of the most horrible thing they had to ever see. It will scar them for life and the gang of idiots responsible should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. God help us!
WoundedKnee | Sep 22, 2012, 10:39 AM EDT
Wilhoef: Did you misunderstand the article? The cat was sitting right on the front porch. Anyway, are you God? Who said cats shouldn't be free to come and go, without fear of psychotic Irish animal abusers?
WoundedKnee | Sep 22, 2012, 10:37 AM EDT
Not surprising. I've been attacked countless times on this site for drawing Americans' attention to the truly disgusting animal abuse you come across in Ireland. With all its faults, I commend Irish Central for not drawing a veil over the dark side of Irish life.
wilhoef | Sep 22, 2012, 10:15 AM EDT
Brutal. But cats should not be running free.