CONVICTED (2020) | Michael P Tognetti, born c. 1997, of 82 Main Street, Wolston, Coventry CV8 3HJ – strangled his pet cat to death and buried her in his garden
Tognetti strangled elderly tortoiseshell cat Ruby to death with a trouser cord to “put her out of her misery”. He then buried her body in a shallow grave in his garden.
A member of the public tipped off the RSPCA and Inspector Helen Smith visited Tognetti’s address to investigate. Tognetti told the inspector he was expecting a visit from the charity and took her to the area of his garden where he’d buried Ruby’s body.
He told Inspector Smith he had used a cord from his jogging bottoms and said it took about 30 seconds to kill Ruby. He killed her, he said, because Ruby was elderly and needed to be put out of her misery.
Veterinary examination confirmed that she had died due to strangulation.
Inspector Smith said: “Anyone with concerns about an animal coming to the end of their life should seek veterinary advice and putting a pet to sleep to end any suffering should be done in the most humane way possible.”
Another cat at the property, a male called Oscar, was signed into RSPCA care and has since been rehomed.
Sentencing: 24-month community service order; a total of £390 costs and charges. Lifetime ban on keeping animals.
This Evil Mentally Disturbed Scum.
The least you could have done was taken the Cat to the PDSA. or just put the Cat through the door of a Veterinary Surgery and walked away.
How could you bring yourself to do such a horrible thing, to a little Cat that you have obviously kept for many years as your Pet.
You won’t have no luck for what you have done, this will come back on you.