A woman allegedly killed a cat and ate it in front of her horrified neighbors.
Allexis Telia Ferrell, 27, stomped on a feline’s head and devoured it ‘in a residential area in front of multiple people’ at a housing complex in Stark County, Ohio, according to the Canton Police Department.
Ferrell was arrested around 11pm last Friday after the incident on 13th Street SE in Canton.
She has been charged with injuring animals, disorderly conduct and prohibitions concerning companion animals, state court records obtained by Gray News.
Ferrell was arraigned on Monday and had her initial bond amount set at $100,000.
She appeared with a blank, unsmiling expression in her mugshot released by the Stark County Jail.
Her next court appearances has been scheduled for August 26.
Eating cats and dogs has long been considered inhumane in the US.
Former US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, who suspended his bid for the White House as an independent on Friday, was criticized in July after a photo emerged suggesting that he ate barbecued dog. Kennedy pushed back and said the animal carcass he held was a goat.
Consuming certain animals has also been frowned upon internationally.
Late last year, the Gia Bảo restaurant in the Thịnh Đán ward of Thái Nguyên in Vietnam that served ‘specialty cat meat’ and feline soup was shuttered. The slaughterhouse drowned 300 cats monthly and served them to people of the Southeast Asian country where eating felines is relatively common.
The owner told Metro.co.uk that he did not want to kill cats, but did so to make a living.
‘Before selling cat meat at this restaurant I served other normal food and drinks,’ said Pham Quoc Doanh.
‘However, the income was not enough to cover the living cost of my family. It was then I tried selling cat meat since there was no other available restaurant serving this in the area.’
In 2018, a Cambodian woman was arrested after filming herself skinning, cooking and eating endangered animals to make money off of YouTube views. The animals she ate included an endangered fishing cat.
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