Pittsburgh man killed homeless cats for pooping on sidewalk
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Pittsburgh man has pleaded guilty to killing three homeless cats by leaving poisonous mothballs in his yard for them to eat because they pooped on his sidewalk.
Forty-four-year-old Daniel T. Smith will be sentenced Dec. 7 after his guilty plea to animal cruelty counts on Tuesday.
Police say two women who had been feeding a colony of 11 homeless cats reported in July 2015 seeing Smith put two dead cats in a trash can and another cat vomiting which was later euthanized.
Animal Friends, a humane group, had spayed, neutered and vaccinated the cats. Police say Smith reportedly told the women who fed the cats, “I killed six or eight of your cats and I’ll kill the rest of them.”
The charges carry up to five years in prison.