The Cat Killer
I wanted to write about something else… like the recent victory of Pacquiao, and the dogs that Wilson met and befriended yesterday in MOA… until I read the tragic and disturbing story of Tengteng, the UP kitten. I was so enraged that nothing can get it off my mind, and off my keyboard.
Tengteng was a stray cat who lived in the university campus and survived through the kindness of faculty and students who cared for it and gave it food. And that is in past tense… the fact is, Tengteng was brutally killed by one deranged student who claimed to have an extreme hatred for cats. What’s even more infuriating was how the devil bragged about it in his blog then arrogantly branded himself , the Cat Serial Killer. Apparently, Tengteng was not his first victim. He called it “The Accidental Crime” but obviously, there’s nothing accidental about it, by the way he recounted how he squashed his poor defenseless victim, then hurled it by the tail as far as his might can take. I searched the internet for more information on this incident and it looks like the story has spread and had animal advocates springing to action. There is a law prohibiting animal cruelty and, even if the self proclaimed serial killer has deleted his blog, people had not turned a blind eye on his documented crime. His entry was copied, reproduced, circulated even more, then landed in the hands of P.A.W.S.
The killer is sick in the head, a pathetic moron who is more an animal than the cats he has killed. Bragging of mercilessly jumping on a harmless animal is anything but barbaric. I hope that his so called accidental crime will haunt him for the rest of his life.
(picture – Ming, our house cat. His mom was a stray cat that we took in and cared for until she grew gray and old.)
