Cat Owner Kills Pet For Biting Him, Beats Another Kitten With Its Carcass

A man from Salt Lake City, Utah, was charged with animal cruelty Thursday for killing one of his pet kittens and critically injuring the other.

According to the charging documents, on Aug.18, 27-year-old Jordan Michael Hagen asked his roommate if he had hydrogen peroxide. When asked about why he needed it, the accused told his roommate that he “had killed his kitten and there was a lot of blood.” The roommate immediately rushed into Hagen’s room and found a kitten dead. He also noticed another kitten “injured and immobilized beyond salvation.” The roommate informed police and also told the officers that the accused buried the dead feline and left the injured one to die “in a box in a field.”

Following the complaint, Hagen was detained and during interrogation, he told the officers he was cleaning the kitten’s teeth when the feline bit him. In a fit of rage, he hit the kitten “an unknown number of times.” The kitten managed to escape and rushed into the bedroom. He followed the feline and killed it.

After killing the kitten, he grabbed the other pet and threw it to the ground. He then “used the body of the dead kitten to beat the other kitten into paralysis.” Hagen also told the officers that he may do it again.

The “suspect openly admitted to his actions and claimed that he has done it before and may do it again,” the document stated.

Hagen was charged with two counts of torture of a companion animal, a third-degree felony.