Cat Owner Stomps Pet To Death In Drunken Rage

A woman from North Weymouth, Massachusetts, was sentenced to six months imprisonment Wednesday after she pleaded guilty to killing her pet cat.

Police responded to a multifamily home in November, 2016, after receiving reports of a possible domestic incident. The officers found Eleanor M. Campbell standing in the driveway looking visibly drunk. When questioned about how much alcohol she had consumed and if she had been fighting with the residents, the woman said she had drunk one-and-a-half beers and that she hadn’t been fighting with anyone. The officers asked the woman to get back home and not make noise.

A few minutes later, police responded to the scene again after receiving another report that the woman was throwing things at a neighbor’s car. The officers then saw Campbell yelling at the neighbor’s window. While looking around, one of the officers found "a small kitten with what appeared to be a broken neck with blood splattered out of its head and neck area. The kitten appeared to be stomped or flatted by someone."

The officer then noticed blood on Campbell’s socks and determined that the woman killed the feline in a “fit of rage.”

The woman admitted to stomping the feline to death even before the trial began Wednesday.

“The necessary witnesses were at Quincy District Court ready for trial to begin when Eleanor Campbell decided to admit her guilt,” Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey said in a statement.