List of cruelty to animal incidents in Canada

List of cruelty to animal incidents in Canada:
2013
Stepha Franklin
Stepha Franklin (b 1987) born in Haiti and residing in Cornwall, Ontario was convicted on July 19, 2013, for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to a dog and sentenced to four months in jail. On February 26, 2013, Franklin was seen viciously punching his girlfriends dog, named Mercedes, in a car in Ottawa. Mercedez is a Boxer-German Shepherd mix. Franklin has a violent criminal record, and has been jailed three times since 2011
Robert Habermehl
Robert Habermehl was found guilty of animal cruelty to his pet cat. The attack left the cats' intestines hanging outside of its body. Officials had to euthanize the cat. Habermehl is still awaiting sentencing.
Guylene Roy
Guylene Roy of Barrhaven was charged on May 29, 2013, under the Province of Ontario animal cruelty law with permitting distress to an animal and failure to maintain standards of care, and faces a maximum fine of $1,000 and/or 30 days in jail. Roy's cat named Napoleon was in severe pain when brought to the Ottawa Humane Society his fur was so matted with feces and his skin was so severely irritated with open sores, they decided to euthanize him.
Brian Whitlock
Brian Whitlock (b. 1987) plead guilty to animal cruelty on April 9, 2013, at the Provincial Court of British Columbia. Whitlock admitted in Court that he beat his two-year old German Shepherd, named "Captain" with a baseball bat and placed it in a dumpster after believing it was dead, in Kitsilano, Vancouver, British Columbia. Captain was found in a dumpster wrapped in a blood soaked blanket, emamiciated, stabbed, cut, poisoned and beaten. Lucas was sentenced to seventeen-months in prison and two-years of probation.

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