Further to the post I forwarded earlier, another Toronto Star article
on the film in today's paper gives a different slant on the proposed
Toronto Film Festival showing of the film about the perpetrators of
the crime against a cat. If, as the writer Geoff Pevere states, the
film reveals the culprits in their true light, it puts a different
light on the controversy. But what all this does bring up again in the
light of the ridiculously lenient sentence the guilty parties
received, is that Canadian laws should be introduced and existing laws
strengthened to increase the punishment for cruelty to animals. Here's
Pevere's article:

http://tinyurl.com/59hra

Bobcat, I also saw this in another newsgroup and wrote in this newsgroup how
badly this upset me (to the point of having to go to the ladies room to
vomit and then not being able to stop crying.

I know you mean well, but a lot of people in this newsgroup just can't take
hearing or reading about cat abuse - not even in the subject line.  So, when
we want to post a story here about that subject we put "Abuse Warning" in
the subject line and DON'T put any details about the abuse in the subject
line.  That way people who can bear reading about this an who may want to
join in doing something about it can still read the post, but those who
can't, or who are just temporarily feeling a bit fragile, can avoid even
thinking about such a horrific act.

Again, thank you for trying to bring about positive change in the world.

Hugs,

CatNipped