New Canaan Police last weekend recovered a kitten that a group of teenage boys had been pelting with rocks in a housing complex up on Lakeview Avenue and placed it with an animal adoption agency, officials said.
At about 4:15 p.m. Saturday, a Canaan Parish woman phoned police to report teenage boys throwing rocks at the young cat, according to a police report.
Animal Control Officer Maryann Kleinschmitt said the kitten was a female gray tiger-type cat, about five or six months old.
Officials were unable to address the teens directly, Kleinschmitt said.
“Animal cruelty is unacceptable,” she said.
She said the cat was sweet and not sick. It’s rare that Animal Control facilitates the placement of an animal in an adoption agency after impounding it, Kleinschmitt said—in this case, Rye, N.Y.-based nonprofit Animal Nation—but added that these were unusual circumstances.
“The problem is that we have kids throwing rocks at it,” she said.
These kids should be charged for abusing the kitten. This is the way dysfunctional adults become who they are. They abuse helpless animals.