Posted on 02/17/2012 4:43:04 PM PST by GSWarrior
FRESNO, Calif. — It was the sound of a wailing cat that first caught the neighbor’s attention. When she looked toward the sound she told authorities that she saw her next-door neighbor cutting off the crying feline’s head with a knife.
The call she subsequently made to deputies started a bizarre animal cruelty investigation that has focused attention from around the country on a working-class neighborhood in a Bakersfield suburb where a man allegedly was fileting cats and cooking them on his backyard barbecue.
“I’ve been getting calls on this from around the country,” Kern County Sheriff’s spokesman Ray Pruitt said. “For some reason when somebody hurts animals people are more outraged than they are for a lot of other cases.”
Investigators decided to release new details on Thursday because of the nationwide interest in the case.
Jason Wilmert, 35, will be arraigned today on charges alleging animal cruelty and using a pet or domesticated animal for food. Both are misdemeanors.
A neighbor told KBAK-TV that she had seen Wilmert with a wailing tabby cat cutting it down the back with a knife, then decapitating it. She turned away in disgust and called sheriff’s deputies.
Pruitt said that when deputies arrived that morning at Wilmert’s home they talked to other neighbors, who said they had heard the sounds of screaming cats coming from the house in Oildale. When he didn’t answer his door, Pruitt said a deputy walked down the driveway and saw a cat’s head in the backyard.
Later Pruitt came outside and deputies arrested him. When they searched his house they found a cat carcass in the kitchen sink, as if were being prepped for cooking. Deputies also found an animal trap in the driveway.
“We don’t know if he was using the trap to catch cats, but he had one,” Pruitt said.
Nobody has called in reporting missing pets, and investigators suspect the victims were strays.
Wilmert has been unable to post $22,500 bail on the animal cruelty charges and unrelated littering offenses. It was unclear if he had an attorney.
They were not his cats. A deputy finds a cut off cat head in the backyard.
I think discussing this with you is a lost cause.
Yes, I do. I have.
Along with dog and some other things you probably don't want to know about.
All in the Far East.
The do taste like chicken. I KNOW!
Bumper Sticker on an older Chevy Blazer I see regular while driving to work: “Cat - The Other White Meat.”
Good. Get lost.
Horrible, just plan horrible.
That is BS.
If it doesn’t dawn on you that it’s animal cruelty when a deputy finds a cut off cat head in the guy’s backyard only to find another skinned alive cat in the sink that the neighbor heards screaming not too long before and claims she saw that cat’s head then being cut off before she couldn’t look anymore,
then I reiterate, you are a lost cause.
And you can get lost yourself. Smartass.
Were the cats branded? LOL
Really? The link between animal abuse and serial killers is very real. Studies have showcased that the vast majority of convicted serial murders have had a history of animal abuse.
No but you should be branded as an Idiot.
Does it say he was breaking into homes and stealing cats???? No, and since responsible pet owners keep their pets at home, you have nothing to complain about.
If you can't understand that, "I feel for you."
I do think it curious that your tagline, while no doubt meant in jest, refers to the casual killing of a fellow human, while mine, which I've had for years, is definitively pro-pet, but you somehow have me figured for an animal abuser apologist.
You disgusting $0B—I’d like to get six thousand cats to attack and eat you
Wrong and the FBI did a study proving it, it is just made up bull from the communist at the national humane association. And if you go back for enough it is a safe bet that you are only here and alive today because you ancestors ate whatever they caught or killed to stay alive.
Wrong and the FBI did a study proving it, it is just made up bull from the communist at the national humane association. And if you go back for enough it is a safe bet that you are only here and alive today because you ancestors ate whatever they caught or killed to stay alive.
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