CEDAR FALLS, IOWA - A man who allegedly strangled his cat with a rope and drank its blood is insisting he did it to prevent animal cruelty.
Cops notied that he had ‘a small amount of blood on his face, near his mouth,’ according to court documents.
Jacoby was said to be upset because he was about to be evicted from this apartment and allegedly phoned his landlord to tell her he planned to kill the cat, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
The property owner immediately phoned the police, who found a dead cat in a running shower in the apartment in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
‘[Jacoby] stated he killed the cat to satisfy his blood craving and to keep the animal from having to go to an animal shelter upon his eviction from the apartment,’ a police officer wrote in court papers.
Jacoby, who had the cat for 11 years, said he used a rope to kill his pet, police chief Jeff Olson said.
He was arrested for animal torture and could be jailed for up to two years if found guilty.
In a bizarre Facebook post he made on January 9, Jacoby wrote: ‘Also, fun fact/s! Apparently you can get charged with animal cruelty for preventing animal cruelty.’
He also wrote: ‘Apparently certain people have a legal right to psychological abuse and then murder animals if they react to the abuse as most sane beings would.’