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21/11/2006
Four month sentence for man who fed cat to dog
A man who allowed his Staffordshire bull terrier to savage a pet cat to death has been jailed for four months.
Callum Myers, 18, was shown on CCTV footage appearing to dangle the cat above his dog, Gypsy, before the dog then attacked it on March 15 this year.
Myers, from Ibbotson Flats in Huddersfield, had pleaded guilty to failing to protect a cat from injury at an earlier hearing.
At Huddersfield Magistrates Court, Chairman of the bench Stuart Blakey said that it was clear that the cat was subjected to "serious suffering" before its death.
He said: "It was a horrible death and you stood by and witnessed it and did nothing to prevent it."
Myers was sentenced to four months in a detention centre and was also banned from keeping any animals for 20 years.
(KMcA)
Callum Myers, 18, was shown on CCTV footage appearing to dangle the cat above his dog, Gypsy, before the dog then attacked it on March 15 this year.
Myers, from Ibbotson Flats in Huddersfield, had pleaded guilty to failing to protect a cat from injury at an earlier hearing.
At Huddersfield Magistrates Court, Chairman of the bench Stuart Blakey said that it was clear that the cat was subjected to "serious suffering" before its death.
He said: "It was a horrible death and you stood by and witnessed it and did nothing to prevent it."
Myers was sentenced to four months in a detention centre and was also banned from keeping any animals for 20 years.
(KMcA)
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