Top stories: Petsmart Charities donates money to help stray cats; two teens get community service for torturing a cat.
Posted: September 8, 2008 3 a.m. EDT
Animal Control Granted Money to Help With Stray Cat Population
Animal Control received a grant of $9,975, donated by Petsmart Charities, that has been specifically earmarked to help with stray cats. It will be used to buy 10 new traps to add to the 20 they already have, KRIS-TV (Texas) reports.
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Teens Sentenced to Community Service for Torturing a Cat
Two Alberta teenagers who killed a family cat by stuffing it into a microwave and turning it on were sentenced to 100 hours of community service for a crime that drew outrage from animal lovers around the world, the National Post (Canada) reports.
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Cat Killer Sentenced to 2½ Years in Prison
An East Boston man was sentenced to 2½ years in prison by a Suffolk Superior Court judge who had been urged by cat lovers to impose a tougher sentence on Luigi Epifania for killing a cat and setting its corpse on fire in 2007, The Boston Globe reports.
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