Hey everyone, this is an unusual story for you.
New York- An actor admits to killing his girlfriend's cat, but denies the attack was unwarranted and claims self defense.
This unusual cruelty has commenced in New York Courts. ASPCA police arrested Joseph Petcka, 36, last April after a veterinarian, who inspected the seven-and-a-half-pound cat and pronounced it dead, notified the authorities. Petcka, who has appeared in "Sex and the City" and was once a minor-league baseball player for the Mets, faces up to two years in prison if convicted. The cat's owner testified in court Wednesday saying that when she found her cat's lifeless body in the house, she called up Petcka, her boyfriend at the time. She asked him what kind of sick person would kill a cat like that.
Petcka's lawyer claimed that his client "swatted it really hard," and that it was an unfortunate accident. And Petcka maintains the 8-year-old cat has always been hostile. "The cat had always hissed and growled at me as I was being nice to him," Petcka reportedly told the ASPCA police when arrested. "I don't know why he attacked me, as I always wanted to keep my distance with him." Trouble started one late night when Altobelli and Petcka, intoxicated at the time, got into a fight and he accused her of loving the cat more than him, The New York Post reported. Altobelli left her apartment around 3 a.m. and later returned to find Norman's lifeless body in her bedroom.
The cat was found to have suffered several broken ribs, internal bleeding, crushed teeth and a torn tongue, says Joseph Pentangelo, ASPCA'S assistant director of law enforcement. Petcka likely used his hands and feet, and not any weapons, to kill Norman. "The results of the necropsy indicated that there was an instance of severe trauma and violence," Pentangelo said in an interview with Pet Pulse.
So far, the jury in this case has been hopelessly deadlocked.
I personally think this guy took out his anger for his girlfriend on the cat, and is trying to use the whole self defense thing as an excuse....
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