A West Valley City man was arrested after he reportedly admitted he strangled, beat and killed his kittens — using the body of one dead animal to beat another.
The 27-year-old man was booked into the Salt Lake County jail for investigation of three counts of torture of a companion animal.
According to West Valley City police, the man’s roommate reported the suspect had “violently killed his cats.” When officers questioned the suspect, “he admitted that he had been strangling his kittens” because “he needed to get rid of them for their safety.”
According to a probable cause statement, the suspect said “he got angry at one of the kittens and beat it to death while it fled to another room"; he “then used the body of the dead kitten to beat the other kitten into paralysis.”
The suspect told police the second kitten was “close to death,” so he “put it in a box and left it in a field to starve or die from its injury.”
Police said the suspect “openly admitted” killing the kittens and “claimed that he has done it before and may do it again.”
