Our legal system STINKS !!

They're minors (if you notice the 18-yr-olds name was released). That is why their names aren't released. That does not mean that they will be allowed to do it again and again, they've hopefully been released into the custody of parents who are also shocked and appalled, and will keep them under close supervision.

It is very sickening, I agree Maybe we should be glad they were caught and hopefully some intervention can be done before they do it again. Or am I just being an optimist

Poor cat.

And shame, shame, SHAME on everyone else who viewed the video and did not report it or turn on the perpetrators themselves!! May those monsters meet their karma soon
When I was in high school, some boys caught a friendly orange cat, killed it & bleached the skeleton & brought it to biology class, where they got extra credit for the work on the skeleton. I was so sick & led a verbal protest till the teacher took it down. A few years later, the boy who master minded the whole thing joined the military & was burned to death in a helicopter crash - a morbid kind of justice all right

i always think for those types of things, they need to do the sames thing to the people. that they where doing to the animal

back in high school, a group kids wanted to stick a puppy in the ground, with just its head above ground so they could run over with a lawn mower, The really bad part of the plan was that me and 2 of my friends just happen to be walking past, as they where putting the puppy in the ground.

funny the next three years of school we had a group of class mates that did everything they could to keep away from us .

I've said this many times and i'll say it again.

Children or teenagers who are capable of doing horrific things like this to animals make you wonder what they can do to humans

I'd like to thrown these lot from the highest building i could find

That is so sad! That poor poor cat!! I would like to throw those low lifes off a balcony and see how they land! (or how they like it.)

We have the same problem in the U.S. I have been following abuse cases for almost a year and have yet to see any of these monsters receive a real punishment (probation, community service, suspended sentences, time served, and concurrent sentences are not real punishments. This tells criminals that what they did isn't serious).

Like furryferals, I would like to know why violence against companion animals is the ONLY crime that is not handled by the police. If they can handle jaywalking cases, why won't they handle animal cruelty cases. Violent crimes against animals should be taken seriously, if not for the animals then for the people affected-- the animals' guardians and the future victims of the perpetrators' violence.

Four Legged Justice-NOW!

Every time I read or watch the news I see something that makes me so angry I could scream, because all too often the punishment (if there even is one) doesn't fit the crime. A man can get drunk and kill another person with his car and only spend two years in prison, after which he still has his driver's license and can go out and do it all again. Someone can sexually abuse their own children and only spend seven years in jail, while those children get to spend the rest of their lives in therapy because of the awful things done to them. Rape cases get thrown out due to a lack of evidence, and it's like the legal world has decided the assault never happened in the first place, while the victim gets branded a liar and never gets to have closure or justice. I get so angry I have to take a break from reading and watching the news, because it just stresses me out. It's not that I necessarily agree with the concept of an eye for an eye, but I do feel that if you do something wrong, your punishment ought to reflect the severity of the crime -- and the legal system needs to overhaul the view on what makes one crime more or less severe than other crimes.

One thing I do recall hearing was that (in Ontario, at least) animal cruelty laws are lax because of how the courts view animal ownership. In order to make an owner responsible for their pet's actions (say, if your dog mauled somebody), pets have to be classified as "property," so that owners could be penalized in the same way they would be if your negligence in maintaining your home caused another person to be injured (say, if someone fell down your stairs because the railing wasn't secure). If pets are property, then, the owner can determine what can be done with (or to) them, up to a point. And that point is a very thin grey line between ignorance and outright abuse.