Since I dropped her a note, I haven't heard anything from her. I think she believed my organization could help her financially.

I've had a few women wanting money from me. One saw a tv special PAX did on me and asked the company to have me call her. She turned out to be a liar, I caught her and asked her exactly what it was she wanted from me and I never heard from her again.

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED. It's a very good example of people who get violent with their families and pets and the tragic results.

This was a case in the United Kingdom.

Mirror.co.uk - UK
19 July 2005

CAGED.. BEAST WHO RIPPED HEAD OFF PET PARROT
Thug branded an 'Ozzy'
By Rod Chaytor

A MAN who tore the head off his pet parrot during a drunken rage was jailed yesterday after being branded the "Ozzy Osbourne of Wolverhampton".

Paul Pugh, 39, who said before the case that he "deserved to die" for the sickening offence, was also banned from keeping any animal for life.

He had arrived at court for sentence in the morning but was locked up until the afternoon because he was drunk.

Speaking as he arrived at court, Pugh told reporters he had drunk eight pints of Carling lager that morning.

Wearing a black jacket, a red England T-shirt and grey tracksuit bottoms, he said that he bitterly regretted killing Baby.

He added: "I used to take Baby to the shops in the car and I would rather have died myself, that's the God's honest truth.

"I hand-reared that bird from six weeks old and I deserve to die for what I did. I am a w***** - I killed my bird and I'm going to jail."

He had admitted decapitating Senegal parrot Baby last month. Pugh attacked the bird on February 5 after a row with his wife following a night out drinking.

Yesterday, Roger Price, prosecuting for the RSPCA, told Wolverhampton magistrates how Pugh - who moments earlier had tried to hit his 15-year-old son - stumbled into the living room and pulled Baby from her cage.

Mr Price said: "Pugh then held the head of the parrot in one hand and the body in another. He shouted, 'Right, I am going to f*****g kill her. Watch me'."

Amrit Johal, defending, said Pugh was an alcoholic and could not remember the incident.

He told the court: "This was one moment of absolute sheer madness."

But sentencing Pugh, District Judge Shamim Qureshi said: "The parrot had no chance of fleeing.

"You proceeded to kill the bird in front of your wife and child and it was a disgusting incident for anyone to have to witness.

"This has all the hallmarks of pop stars on stage. You are what might be described as the Ozzy Osbourne of Wolverhampton for the way you have treated this bird."

The judge was referring to the Black Sabbath lead singer who bit off a bat's head after a fan threw it on stage during a concert in 1978. He added: "The court has a duty to protect innocent creatures and I have no choice - there must be a custodial sentence."

Pugh, from Wolverhampton, was jailed for
five-and-half-months - four for causing nnecessary
suffering plus six weeks of a previous sentence from which he was released on licence.

After the case, RSPCA Chief Inspector Dave Hollinshead added: "The majority of cruelty cases are neglect, whereas this was a quite deliberate infliction of pain and suffering."

RSPCA Inspector Jackie Hickman added: "The incident was horrific.

"Parrots are very sensitive creatures and it must have been terrified. The lifetime ban will mean that this is not going to happen again."

Probably not but only if someone in authority bothers to check from time to time...Five and a half months is NOTHING. He shoud have been jailed for five years the drunken creep. I hope he's in a cell with Big Butch and Butch is an animal lover, oh yes Lord, true justice.....

I read the first line and couldn't go any further.

Ladies, an article I wrote on Ahimsa House, a local shelter in Georgia that takes in the pets of women entering domestic violence shelters, can be found online at:

http://www.critterchatter.com/july-aug05/left-behind.html

Fortunately, the link between animal abuse and future violence toward humans is slowly getting recognized.

Kelly