Maryland: Men release Pit Bull to attack, kill cats in feral cat colony

MARYLAND -- On Feb 21, 2018,  Midnight a friendly colony cat was fed by his caretaker along with 4 other cats.

After the caretaker left, three men let their pit bull off its leash to attack the cats.  

Last year there were 13.  Now there are 5.  Three were found in the last few months dead and now they know how they were being killed.

The rest of the cats are needing trapped and rehomed to barns. This means there are vetting costs, food, litter, and transportation costs. There are another 4 cats fed very close to this location and we will rehome them too.

Please this is an emergency,  if you can donate anything, its greatly appreciated.  Checks can also be made out to Metro Ferals if you choose.  I can private message you my address.

UPDATE 1
Just an update...Midnight has survived but is very sore. Yes this incident has been reported to Animal Control. Trapping of the left over cats will be this Saturday.

UPDATE 2
Last night 4 cats were trapped/removed as 2 of them were friendly. There is 1 very trap savy one left and then we saw 2 new comers. It was a little scary night as it wasn't the best of area.

We got to see the dog that killed 1 of the cats a few months ago. Nothing was said but it was a little tense as they walked by with their dog as it was on a leash this time.

GOFUNDME: Cats being attacked by Pit bull
Created February 22, 2018
Mary Yost Jones
  Animals
  FORT HOWARD, MD

Washington: Pregnant teen tells her dad her boyfriend sicced his Pit Bull on her

WASHINGTON -- Jason Fairchild posted on Facebook February 9, 2018 ·

A so-called supposed friend had their pit bull bite my daughter. And she still can't get what I keep telling her, those are not her friends.

They are so cool, that she doesn't want to do anything about it, she is 16 with a baby, and goes over to visit them all of the time, she is to stupid to understand that, what if that damn pit bull had went after her baby instead of her.

She said that a piece of shit that used to be her so-called boyfriend sicced that vicious bastard on her, and she just cannot understand why I told her to leave that little punk bastard alone.

Lorena Bell-Ranta - Damn, Jason be dad now! Put your damn foot down, dog her ass for her own good!!

Jason Fairchild - She refuses to cooperate Mr. Bastard is so cool.

Christina Marie - U can make report sges a ninor and ur parent she Dnt have to cooperate or need to

Christina Marie - Make the report uncle jason to animal control they need to be held accountable

Kim Williams - He gotta a lot of nerves, don't he know that dog can be put down for doing this..?There's nothing cool about this situation at all.

Louisiana: Michael Tarver sicced his Pit Bull on a small pig while he recorded the attack, say police

LOUISIANA -- A Baton Rouge man is behind bars after reportedly allowing his pit bull to attack a small pig.

Officials say on November 2 around 9 a.m., officers were called out to a home on Hollywood Street in reference to a man fighting dogs at the home.

Michael Tarver, 22, is the owner of a pit bull which he keeps in a kennel in the backyard of the home.

A witness claims that Tarver released the pit bull from the kennel and allowed it to attack a small pig that was in the yard. The witness also claims Tarver recorded the whole incident on his phone.

The officer reported finding the pig in a neighbor's yard bleeding heavily from the side of its head and ear.

Tarver was arrested and read his rights, then reportedly told the officer he did allow his dog out of the kennel to go after the pig.

The officer watched another video, recorded earlier, of the pig on Tarver's phone where the pig could be seen eating in the yard and did not appear to be in any distress.

Tarver was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison and is charged with aggravated cruelty to animals.

(WAFB - Nov 2, 2017)

South Carolina: Bethany Polutta, 18, Austin Kizer, 19, and two juveniles arrested after posting photos and videos of themselves laughing, torturing and beating an opossum to death

SOUTH CAROLINA -- Two adults and two teenagers are facing misdemeanor charges after a “disturbing” video was posted on Snapchat that showed an opossum being hung by its tail dangling over a dog and beaten with a baseball bat.

However, animal activists groups are pushing for further charges in an online petition, saying that the misdemeanor charges “in no way cover(s) the actions of these defendants.”

Bethany Polutta, 18, of Summerville, South Carolina and Austin Kizer, 19, of St. George, South Carolina, along with two people under age 18, have been charged with ill treatment of an animal, according to David Lucas, of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

Lucas said the two adults will appear in magistrate’s court, while the juveniles’ cases will be handled in family court.

 

Authorities began investigating the incident in September when a video was posted on Snapchat that appeared to show several teenagers beating an opossum with a baseball bat in a garage.

People who saw the Snapchat video took screenshots of the incident and turned them over to the Department of Natural Resources, Lucas said.

“I think anyone who saw (the screenshots) would think it’s disturbing,” Lucas said.

The video sparked anger and uproar on social media. Renate Hartland, a wildlife volunteer in Seattle, launched an online petition to Dorchester County Solicitor David Pascoe demanding harsh punishment for the abusers in the video.

Hartland, along with other animal activists, named the opossum “Hope” and started the Facebook page “In Light of Hope” for the animal’s supporters. The Change.org petition has more than 33,000 signatures and the Facebook page has more than 1,400 followers.

The petition requests more serious punishment than the misdemeanor abuse charge, which carries a maximum punishment of 90 days in jail or a fine of up to $1,000 on the first offense.

Instead, petitioners are asking for the offenders to face felony charges for torture, torment, or cruel killing, with a minimum punishment of 180 days in jail.

“The animal suffered repeated, persistent, merciless pain,” the petition reads. “The pain and suffering inflicted upon the opossum goes far beyond anything tolerable in a decent society. This is not ‘generic’ animal suffering, this is specific torture and torment.”

Lucas said Monday that further charges from his department are not expected.

“The case on our end is closed, but the solicitor might further investigate the incident,” he said.

This is the second time in six months the state’s Department of Natural Resources has investigated teenagers abusing an animal on Snapchat.

In May, two Ridgeland, South Carolina men were charged with animal abuse after investigation into photos of a group of men pouring beer down an alligator’s throat.

In response to the opossum incident, PETA has sent letters to schools in the area urging them to implement humane education.

“We’re facing a bullying epidemic, and these boys allegedly beat an opossum to death with a baseball bat and bragged about it on social media,” said PETA spokesperson Marta Holmberg in an online press release. “TeachKind is urging schools to implement humane education and adopt an official policy against cruelty to animals that will help prevent a shocking crime like this one from occurring again.”

(Miami Herald - Oct 9, 2017)

Earlier:

• South Carolina: Future serial killers - Laughing teens tortured and beat opossum to death with a baseball bat then posted photos and videos on Snapchat.

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North Carolina: Teens Jared Rose and Kalob Hubbard torture and burn opossum alive and are so proud of themselves they post on Instagram

 

North Carolina: Two future serial killers beat opossum and then set it and its babies on fire, killing it

The sister says of the opossum, "You shot its tongue off. The poor thing.... oh my God. This is way more bloodier than the skunk."

New York: Several teens filmed themselves gleefully torturing a turtle to death. Maximum punishment? $250 fine and "up to 15 days in jail". But we all know that jail time will NEVER happen.

Hawaii: Christian Gutierrez given 45-days in jail for torturing albatross birds to death by breaking their bones, chopping off their feet, kicking them, stomping them, and beating them to death with a baseball bat.

(August 2017) New York: "Pit bulls are just killing machines. They’re not animals."

NEW YORK -- A man was bitten by a "vicious" pit bull during a drug-related fight in the Biltmore, a swanky West 47th Street apartment building, Friday morning, sources said.

The 27-year-old man, who was bleeding from gashes on his arms as he was wheeled out on a stretcher, was attacked on the ninth floor of the luxury building at 271 W. 47th St., near Eighth Avenue, about 9 a.m.

"There was so much chaos. Cops were running around. I just heard a blood-curdling scream. It was really high-pitched. It went on for maybe two minutes. I heard it coming down the elevator. It was really, really loud," said Benjamin Stueben, 37, who lives in the building.

The victim had been fighting over an unspecified drug issue with another man, 34, who had been restraining the dog by holding it between his legs, an NYPD spokeswoman said.

"The guys were fighting in the hallway. One guy had the dog and he was telling the dog to attack. He was saying, 'Sic him! Sic him!'" said Shawn Ulibarri, 50, who lives on the ninth floor and watched the fracas through his peephole.

"The dog attacked the guy. He was growling and shaking his head back and forth. The guy getting attacked screamed, 'Call the police! Call the police!'"

Both men, whose names weren't immediately released, face criminal charges, the spokesman said.

Both were treated at Bellevue Hospital where they're listed in stable condition, an FDNY spokesman said.

The dog was barking as it was wheeled out in a covered crate.

Sources described it as "a good-sized dog, very vicious."

"We had to dart him. Then we noosed him," an Emergency Services Unit officer at the scene said.

It wasn't immediately clear if either man lived in the building.

A woman who picked up the phone at the Biltmore hung up on a reporter asking about the incident. Management didn't immediately respond to email.

Actor Amanda Bynes was famously ousted from her apartment at the Biltmore, where two bedrooms can go for nearly $6,000 a month, after a stint of bad behavior including hurling a bong from her window and smoking weed in the lobby.

Neighbors were, understandably, shook up.

“The police told us to stay in our apartments. I didn’t know if it was a hostage situation or a bomb threat.”

The woman said she has noticed the pit bull before the mauling.

“He’s aggressive,” she said. “When he’s waiting for the elevator, I go back in my apartment.”

Gilles Grenier, 58, has lived in the apartment building for 14 years. “I remember hearing loud screams,” Grenier said.

“I reported that dog when they moved in. Pit bulls are just killing machines. They’re not animals. They need to be muzzled.”

(DNA Info - August 28, 2017)

California: Deputy shoots, kills pit bull after 2nd officer is attacked

CALIFORNIA -- A Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office deputy is recovering after he was attacked by a pit bull while serving a warrant in Milton.

The pit bull was shot and killed.

It all happened after 4 p.m. Monday afternoon as authorities were serving a felony warrant to Nickole Trappman.

Investigators say the dog's owner, David Trappman, gave the dog commands to attack when deputies arrived.

Aloy said the dog latched onto a deputy's thigh. That's when another deputy fired his gun and killed the dog. He added the deputy who was bitten received several punctures and lacerations to his leg.

According to an incident report, when deputies searched the home, they found Nickole hiding behind a hot water heater and under a clothes basket.

David and Nickole were both arrested Monday afternoon.

"It happens quite frequently. We go to residences where there are dogs, it is a part of the job, but it all depends on how you approach it. We go to a situation expecting there to be dogs, as long as you approach a situation like that you expect there to be a dog and you treat it like there is a dog."

Channel 3 News learned Tuesday afternoon the deputy was treated and released from the hospital.

David Trappman remains in the Santa Rosa County Jail on a $61,000 bond.

(WEARTV - October 10, 2017)

Illinois: Judge found probable cause for Kerry Talburt's to continue. Talburt is accused of letting his Pit Bull maul a man in July

ILLINOIS -- Probable cause was found Tuesday in Adams County Circuit Court against a Quincy man accused of letting his pit bull bite another man in July.

Judge Debra Wellborn ruled there was enough evidence for the case against Kerry D. Talburt II to move forward. He is set to appear for arraignment Sept. 19.

Talburt, 21, faces charges of home invasion, aggravated battery, reckless conduct, criminal trespass of a residence and two counts of obstructing justice.

Charging documents say Talburt put his thumb in one of the other man's eyes and allowed his pit bull to bite him. They also allege he gave false information to police.

The Quincy Police Department said officers were called to 1005 Jersey on July 8 on a report of a 30-year-old who was bitten in the face by a dog. Police said Talburt had gotten into an altercation with his downstairs neighbor, and Talburt's dog got loose and bit the man in the face.

Talburt faces six to 30 years in prison if convicted of the home invasion charge, a Class X felony. He also faces the possibility of consecutive sentences if convicted of other charges.

Talburt posted $2,000 bond in the case but is being held in the Adams County Jail in other cases.

*  *  CAREER CRIMINAL AT JUST 21 YEARS OF AGE  *  *

Quincy teen arrested for marijuana possession
Aug 18, 2015

QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) - A Quincy teen was arrested Monday night after deputies say they found 30 grams of marijuana in his home.

Kerry D. Talburt II, 19, was arrested for possession of cannabis with intent to deliver.  Adams County Sheriff's deputies say they found the drugs during a search of Talburt's home at 1005 1/2 Jersey Street.

Justin R. Agans, 19, was arrested for an outstanding Schuyler County, Illinois, warrant and possession of alcohol by a minor. Deputies say several juveniles were also released to their parents with pending charges.

*  *  LESS THAN A YEAR LATER, ANOTHER ARREST  *  *

Task force finds several pounds of marijuana in Quincy home
Jul 26, 2016

QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) - Police arrested three people Monday night just before uncovering several pounds of marijuana in a Quincy home.

It started when officers pulled over a vehicle over near 8th and Madison streets as part of a drug investigation.

West Central Illinois Task Force M/Sgt. Patrick Frazier says task force members and sheriff's deputies arrested the 17-year-old driver and Kerry D. Talburt II, 20, for unlawful possession of cannabis.

While they were at the scene, Frazier says Zana S. Owsley, 37, who is related to one of them, came up to the officers and they arrested her for a failure to appear warrant. Frazier says Owsley also had drugs on her.

After the arrests, officers went to search Talburt's home, at 1005-1/2 Jersey Street, where Frazier says they found cannabis, cannabis edibles and drug paraphernalia.

Frazier says Talburt faces charges for cannabis trafficking and unlawful possession of 2,000 to 5,000 grams of cannabis, which is roughly between four and 11 pounds.

The teen was released to a parent.

Releasing him to a parent probably wasn't a good idea since his daddy is a criminal, too:

Talbert Arrested on Drug Charges After Attempt to Escape by Bicycle Fails
July 23, 2013

(Quincy, Ill)— Kerry D. Talburt of Quincy tried to escape by bicycle as West Central Illinois Task Force officers closed in on him Monday afternoon.

Officers report the thirty-eight year old was the subject of a drug investigation in the 400 block of Elm Street in Quincy.  Talburt was taken into custody after a brief struggle. Task Force Agents seized meth and hypodermic syringes at the scene.

Talburt was already on parole for meth possession when he was arrested Monday for Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Deliver.

Court records indicate Talburt received sentences for Aggravated Battery and Armed Robbery in 1994, Obstruction of Justice in 1997, and Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance and Escape from a Penal Institution in 2002.

Talburt remains lodged in the Adams County Jail.

(WHIG - Sept 12, 2017)

South Africa: Dog bites off chunk of woman's face

SOUTH AFRICA -- An angry man in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni, South Africa, set
his dog on a tavern owner after an argument over change.

Hoping to teach the tavern owner a lesson, the patron went home to fetch his vicious dog but the tavern owner saw the dog charging and locked himself inside his house.

The animal then attacked a woman who was just passing by, biting off a chunk of her face.

Mbali Zulu (23) is now in hospital where doctors are trying to repair the damage to her face while cops wait for her to be released to open a case against the dog owner.

Speaking from her hospital bed Mbali said she had been coming from a friend's house on Saturday when the dog attacked her.

"I felt the dog jumping on me and then I fought with it," said Mbali.

She said people ran to their houses to hide – they were too scared to try and help her.

"I screamed but the owner of the dog didn't come out to the street."

Mbali said her boyfriend is worried about how she will look when she's discharged from hospital.

SPCA spokeswoman Chris Kuch said anyone who was attacked, or the parent of a child who was bitten, may lay a charge and try to recover their medical expenses in court.

She said the SPCA had since removed the dog. A Vosloorus police spokesman said Mbali could open a case once she was fit to do so.

(DailySun - Sept 22, 2017)

South Carolina: Future serial killers - Laughing teens tortured and beat opossum to death with a baseball bat then posted photos and videos on Snapchat.

SOUTH CAROLINA -- The S.C. Department of Natural Resources is investigating after photos posted on social media showed a group of teens torturing and beating an opossum in the air with a baseball bat, beating it with a stick and holding the animal by its tail, trying to get a dog to attack it.

David Lucas, a DNR spokesman, said the agency received a complaint about the incident over the weekend. A tip sent to DNR included screenshots from a Snapchat video that investigators believe was recorded in the Summerville area.

 

Investigators have identified the people in the video and are talking with the teens and their parents, Lucas said. It was not known Tuesday whether charges will be filed.

Cierra Black watched the Snapchat video filmed by a mutual friend and shared the images to Facebook and with DNR.

Black said the video began with people poking at the opossum on a table in a garage. 

 

 

A girl can be heard laughing saying, "You broke its leg haha!"

A teen grabbed the animal by its tail and held it over a dog. Black said one person threw the opossum in the air and another hit it with a baseball bat. 

The animal landed on the ground where the individuals continued to beat it with a bat, she said. 

"Disturbing is the word that comes to mind," Lucas said of the images.

I don't know what's more disturbing: the fact that they were OK with torturing and killing a small defenseless animal or the fact that they were so proud of their handiwork that they quickly uploaded photos and videos to Snapchat in an effort to be 'internet famous' with other like-minded sadists.

The incident comes at a time when another South Carolina wildlife cruelty case is fresh on people's minds.

In May, two Jasper County men were charged with misdemeanor harassment of wildlife for allegedly pouring beer into an alligator's mouth. DNR was also alerted to that case thanks to photos posted on social media.

Anonymous tips may be submitted to DNR's Operation Game Thief line at 1-800-922-5431 or by downloading the SCDNR Tips app from iTunes or Google Play.

 

  

  

 

Update: 
Four of these disgusting human beings have been arrested and charged.

Bethany Polutta, 18, of Summerville, South Carolina and Austin Kizer, 19, of St. George, South Carolina, along with two people under age 18, have been charged with ill treatment of an animal, according to David Lucas, of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. 

(Post and Courier - Sept 19, 2017)