Police allege that Freshour used a food bowl to lure a neighborhood cat before stabbing the animal multiple times, even as it attempted to walk away. The cat was later found dead in a trash can.
During his preliminary hearing, Freshour argued that he stabbed the feline because it attacked his leg. The man, who claims to be suffering from an immune disease, said that he was worried that the cat was rabid.
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[How many people, viciously being attacked by a crazed, rabid animal, will have the time to see that "its tendons in its back legs were severed and it was about to die". How fascinating that Freshour knows enough about animal anatony that he doesn't need to go to veterinary college to know when an animal 'is about to die'.]
Despite Freshour's argument that he killed the cat in self defense, a judge ruled that there was enough evidence to send the case to trial.
“What would you do if you had a cat latched onto your leg and it just wouldn’t go away? And you just so happen to have a knife in your hand? You would defend yourself. It’s a wild animal. I was scared,” Freshour told reporters as he was leaving court.
Animal activists, many of whom showed up at the hearing, are not buying Freshour's claim of self defense.
"He is getting rabies shots after the fact for the sympathy of the public," Henrietta Kaczmarczyk said to the media posted outside of the courthouse. "He's a scumbag. I want to see that man get what that cat got. That's what I would like to see."
"If you're afraid for your life, you just run away from the animal, not actually go after it and say 'oh, I cut the tendons off,'" added Adriana Vargas, a member of non-profit group Tracey's Hope.
A Facebook page titled "Expel and Prosecute Peter Freshour for maliciously stabbing a cat to death" has been created for animal lovers who wish to see Freshour punished. A petition asking that Freshour be expelled from the University of Scranton has already gathered almost 2,000 signatures as of this writing.
Freshour's supporters are fighting back on their own Facebook page, "Peter Freshour Is No Killer: Stop the Hate (over a stray cat!)." A description written by the page creator reads, "People are out of control and up in arms over a stray cat, who seemingly has more rights than a human."
[Most likely, he's written it himself. Who else would be stupid enough to defend a Jeffrey Dahmer Jr?]
Peter Freshour is due back in court September 28 to be arraigned on one misdemeanor count of cruelty to animals.
(Examiner - Aug 15, 2012)
