Based on teh punishment, I don't think the judge bought his story. BTW, love my cat but I don't think people should be imprisoned for harming animals, especially if it was an accident.
I think that people who harm animals on purpose(not accidents) should be electrocuted....
I think maybe this was perfect. I'm not big into animal "abuse" jailing (mainly cuz the term "abuse" is ABUSED just as much as "torture"), but I do think there should be exceptions.
I'm betting this man had "good" intentions; he was just stupid. So, maybe he shouldn't have gotten 6 weeks, but at least a week or so should drive home the point to him and others that such abuses are just too much.
Some1 intentional - go ahead and give'em 6 weeks.
If he was just run over or struck once, I wouldn't make it worse than the couple weeks.
What scares me is that a) people might think they can go around abusing OTHER PEOPLE'S animal property w/impugnity and b) it might illicitly condone rage and abuse and such people could be very unstable around ANY living being. We should send the message that out-of-control behavior is BAD.