Man Charged With Animal Cruelty After Tossing Kitten To Pit Bull
Nicholasville, KY (AP) -- A man was charged with first-degree cruelty to animals after allowing his pit bull to maul a kitten to death, police said.
Roger Alan Fairchild, 24, of Nicholasville is accused of taking the kitten named Midnight on Sept. 1 and pitching it to his pit bull named Damien, police said. Fairchild was charged shortly after he threatened to order the dog to attack two officers, police said.
The kitten belonged to Shanelle Crowe, 12, who lives in an apartment complex behind Fairchild's home.
Shanelle did not witness the incident, but apparently other youngsters did, police said.
The kitten often wandered up and down a sidewalk in front of the apartment complex. On the night of Sept. 1, several youngsters were petting the kitten when Fairchild walked up and grabbed it, said Nicholasville police Lt. John Branscum.
"A 12-year-old who had the cat in her lap asked 'What are you doing?' and he said, 'I'm feeding my dog,"' Branscum said. Fairchild then took the kitten inside his home. One girl followed in an attempt to retrieve the kitten and saw Fairchild throw it to the dog.
Fairchild initially was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, terroristic threatening and menacing, all misdemeanors, and lodged in the Jessamine County jail.
He wasn't charged with the felony animal-cruelty charge until this week, Branscum said, because it took several days to get a warrant signed.
Shanelle Crowe's father, Tom Crowe, said his daughter and 17-year-old stepdaughter "were pretty bad for a while" but have since acquired a kitten named Blackie.
There are some truly disturbed people in this world.
If he's willing to do that to a cat, I don't see how he's fit to own a dog. Sicko.
This news story makes me cry. ;.;
Someone's still a virgin.
I recently rescued two kittens (on seperate occasions) from people like that. They stay with me now.
o_O It never ceases to amaze me how people can treat animals.. Still, we treat each other bad enough.. x_x
How the hell can someone be so cruel, and in front of children no less. I can't imagine what he thought was clever about it.
Some people are just disgusting.
Ewww...that guy should feel awful. How can anyone be driven to do something that cruel. I wanna meet this guy and honestly kick him in between the legs....for the rest of my life. Yea he deserves it. 
This is disgusting in every meaning of the word.
It is people like this who give Pit Bulls a bad name.
Being the proud owner of two American Pit Bull Terriers,
I am sick and tired of people thinking they are vicious, bloodthirsty dogs by nature. Any dog can be trained to be vicious by ignorant morons like this. My dogs would never hurt a hair on another creature's head, and to see people corrupting dogs like this makes me want to vomit with rage. And to smash the owners in the crotch with a sledgehammer so they don't pollute the gene pool.
I bet if the kitten had eaten the pitbull you wouldn't all be complaining so much.
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I bet if the kitten had eaten the pitbull you wouldn't all be complaining so much.
Hell, I'd be too busy laughing to complain if that happened.
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I bet if the kitten had eaten the pitbull you wouldn't all be complaining so much.
Doesn't erase the fact that the kitten was someone else's pet.
And if a kitten ended up eating a pit bull...well, that's something that belongs in the realm of cartoons.
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I bet if the kitten had eaten the pitbull you wouldn't all be complaining so much.
Well didn't the guy put the kitten in there for the sole intent on allowing the pitbull to have a total slaghterfest? If the kitten had one it'd still be complaining, but cheering [kinda sorta] because what he wanted to happen backfired. Either way it wouldn've been bad.
I hope people realise that this isn't a completely sane man and send him away for as long as possible, then stop him from owning animals. Ever.
*cries* That's upsetting. Poor little kitty.
~Neo
Set a pitbul on HIM, see how HE likes it!!!
Wraith
It's this kind of guy who bathes in hot butter and then rolls around naked in a pile of living ferrets.
Y'know, I kinda found this hilarious.
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Someone's still a virgin.
You say "virgin" like it's a bad thing? What's up with that? 
This is a bit over the PG limit, but it needs to be said: when you do get around to getting laid, you'll understand.
Then again, when was the last time I complied with the PG rating?
Maybe they mean 'virgin to bad news'?
YEah, yeah ,yeah. We've figured out by the umpeenth post on some guy being bad that not everyone is quite all right upstairs. As my my personall opinion, "What the ****."
I've had a general dislike for most breeds of dogs, anyways. I DO like Welsh Corgies, Alaskan Huskies, and Doberman Pinchers.
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but it needs to be said: when you do get around to getting laid, you'll understand.
Dude. I am not gonna "get around to getting laid". Ever. I strongly believe it should be saved for my husband. But this is a totally different subject, and it was already discussed in the Marble Garden, I believe, so let's hush now. 
Not to be picky, but then you really will get around to it, won't you?
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You say "virgin" like it's a bad thing? What's up with that?
The difference between you (Shoe) and this kitten-killer is that you're a virgin by choice and moral principle. He probably is a virgin because a woman wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole and a restraining order.
It's not that being a virgin makes you feed kittens to pit bulls. But someone who does feed kittens to pit bulls is likely a virgin because no one will go near someone that sociopathic. Plus, I bet if he had had a girlfriend (or boyfriend) to straighten him out instead of being a misanthropic loner, he never would've done something like this.
I really don't care about animals that much, so I don't think what actually happened to the kitten was all that bad. It's unfortunate, but not horrific. Kittens have terrible accidents often enough, like getting run over by cars or attacked by coyotes, mountain lions, or bears in certain rural areas. What does sicken me is that this dope did it in front of children... killing a little girl's kitten in an awful way, that's as low as you can go.
This is truely some disgusting news indeed...I call it murder.
Beyond cruelty if you ask me. I hope the twisted punk gets whats coming to him, and I truely hope the soul of that kitten is in a far better place.
~T2K
Dude, I haven't beleived in animals going to heaven since I was, like, four.
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Dude, I haven't beleived in animals going to heaven since I was, like, four.
It doesn't mean others can't believe that though.
I fink we should nail der bugger to der wall by his ears.
This is absolutely despicable and disturbing. It is highly upsetting to me as i have been a massive feline fan for the last 16 years. This man should be tortured and fed to a pitbull himself. He DOES NOT deserve human rights when he causes terrible suffering to a creature who has no power to resist being killed.
Absolutly discgusting. Let the cretin suffer for what he did.
For all you know, the kitten could have owed the pitbull money. It's tragic that we'll never know both sides of the story.
This person has serious problems. Who would feed a young, innocent animal to a vicious pitbull? It's very sad, really. That dog should be taken away from him, seeing as he's not reponsible with it, feeding it kittens and all.
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This man should be tortured and fed to a pitbull himself. He DOES NOT deserve human rights when he causes terrible suffering to a creature who has no power to resist being killed.
Absolutly discgusting[sic]. Let the cretin suffer for what he did.
Yeah! That's an AWESOME idea! And let's have everyone who goes hunting fed to bears, and drown everyone who goes fishing! And let's not forget people who eat steak, they should be slaughtered and fed to other people! THEN We'd have justice! 
I think this topic is sort of funny as nobody would even reply here if the subject had read "Owner Feeds Goldfish to Pit Bull" or something similar.
But because It's a kitten, everyone FLIPS THE F**K OUT.
The only reason I care is because now the dog is going to have to be destroyed because of the reckless act of one backyard breeder, and the man is going to get off with a slap on the wrist punishment, if any.
That was the point I was trying to make in my post on page one. I said that if the kitten had eaten the pitbull it would be a different story. It was mostly a joke (which nobody got, being too up in arms about the whole situation) but the point is that the story is instantly raised in context to that of a disaster story of Biblical proportion simply because a kitten gets hurt. They couldn't care less if, for example, the dog choked on its tiny, milky bones and died of asphyxiation. A tragic tale, I think, but what the hell do I know, because it's certainly not a kitten.
This person has serious problems. Who would feed a young, innocent animal to a vicious pitbull?
hay man, for all you know that kitten just came back from the third satanic blood orgy it had that month.
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the point is that the story is instantly raised in context to that of a disaster story of Biblical proportion simply because a kitten gets hurt.
I don't care that a kitten (presumably, since the girl had to get a new one) died. Animals get eaten in the wild all the time. I'm sickened that a grown man could traumatize children like this. If the girl had a pet squid and the man decided to pull off its tentacles while it was still alive, in front of her friends, that would be equally disturbing even if squids aren't as cute and fuzzy. This is about people and common decency moreso than the animal.
I bet he fed small hamsters to the kitties.
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This is about people and common decency moreso than the animal.
Maybe for you, but the amount of posts along the lines of OMG THE POOR CUTE KITTY vastly outweigh any mention whatsoever of what the girl happened to think about it.
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Maybe for you, but the amount of posts along the lines of OMG THE POOR CUTE KITTY vastly outweigh any mention whatsoever of what the girl happened to think about it.
This Forum gets a disproportional amount of animal-lovers. Has to do with a lot of Sonic comic fans being furry fans too.
