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24 Animal Cruelty 24 Animal Cruelty RCMP investigate after dead it had been there for some time. Police believe our courts," she said. "They see it as a minor RCMP investigate after dead cat found strung up with wire the cat may have been put there sometime offence. "For most of us, we realize that cat found strung up with wire om lamppost fr from lamppost between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. Saturday morning. animals are defenceless. What can they do to The sight of the dangling animal was protect themselves? That's what's so upsetting disturbing to Lai, who is a dog owner, and to his and disturbing about these cases." By: THE CANADIAN PRESS partner, Const. Melanie Girard, who is also an It appears the Conservative government animal lover. has thrown its support behind Bill S-203, a PONOKA, Alta. - RCMP are "Personally it was upsetting, myself separate bill sponsored by Liberal Senator John investigating what could be a shocking case of being a pet lover," Lai said. "I couldn't Bryden which would increase the maximum animal cruelty in a central Alberta community - comprehend why someone would have done fines for animal cruelty to five years in prison just the latest in a string of incidents that have this."Investigators are working on a few leads in and a $10,000 fine. outraged animal rights groups. the case, but Lai is hoping tips from the public Currently animal cruelty laws, which On Saturday, officers were forced to cut may help determine how the cat came to be date back 100 years, provide for a maximum down a dead cat that had been hung by its neck there, and who may be responsible. penalty of six months in jail and a $2,000 fine. with wire from a lamppost outside a store in News of the latest cat killing sickened Members of Reece's animal rights group Ponoka, Alta., about 130 kilometres south of Tove Reece, director of Edmonton-based Voice routinely protest outside the courthouse in Edmonton. For Animals, whose members have regularly Camrose, during court appearances for four Const. James Lai said in an interview protested outside a court house in Camrose, teenagers charged with breaking into a home in Sunday that a customer going into a Fields store Alta., where four teens are accused of December while the owners were away, and noticed the grisly sight around 10 a.m. Saturday microwaving a cat named Princess. microwaving their pet cat to death. morning and alerted the store manager, who "I don't know what is going on," she Two of the youths have pleaded not then called police. said. "There seems like there's an overwhelming guilty to charges including break and enter, Lai says the dark brown female tabby number of cases. unlawfully killing an animal and causing pain was suspended more than four metres in the air, "I don't know whether there's a lot of and suffering to an animal, and will go to trial hanging from a horizontal arm normally used to stress (going on in Alberta), but this seems June 4th. hang flower baskets in the summer. really unusual. Every second day, we hear about Two other youths are expected to appear The officer had to use a ladder to climb yet another case." in court April 3rd. up the post and untangle the animal's body. Another animal rights group held a rally In 2006, a dog named Daisy Duke was Police are still trying to determine near the Calgary Zoo on Sunday in support of viciously beaten and dragged from the rear of a whether the cat may have been alive when its Bill C-373. It's a private member's bill vehicle until it was near death. The animal was neck was wrapped several times with wire and introduced by Liberal MP Mark Holland, which so badly injured, it had to be put down. then hung from the overhead bar. aims to move animals out of the property A teen who pleaded guilty animal "There was no other marks on the cat, section of the Criminal Code. cruelty in that case received a conditional nothing to indicate it was previously deceased "Governments are going to have to start sentence while Daniel Charles Haskett, 19, who before being put up there," Lai said. to take this seriously," said Reece."That may be also admitted to participating in the dog's He said the animal's body was stiff when part of the problem, that it's taken so lightly by torture, will be sentenced next month. he pulled it down from the lamppost, suggesting This book resolves the biggest secret and international conspiracy of all time – the true origins of Christianity. 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