GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) – A Florida man is going through expenses after police say he admitted to poisoning his neighbors’ cat with antifreeze.
Tyanna Ceglia and her household had been coming back from trip final week once they instantly seen their 4-year-old cat, Oreo, appeared sluggish, WCJB studies.
“He could barely pick his head up,” Ceglia stated. “Oreo just kind of came very slowly walking up the driveway, which was very unlike him. He usually ran up the driveway to see us. When we brought him inside, he wasn’t interested in drinking or eating.”
Oreo died simply over every week in the past. The analysis by UF Vet Techs exhibits the cat had antifreeze in his system.
“They did do a necropsy, and the preliminary results said that there was antifreeze in his urine, in his kidneys, in his eyes,” Ceglia stated. “She said it was a lot of poison that he consumed.”
Ceglia’s ideas rapidly turned towards her neighbor, 46-year-old Terry Guider. She stated her good friend was pet sitting final Sunday when Guider knocked on the door and threatened to poison Oreo with antifreeze in a dialog captured by Ceglia’s Ring digital camera.
Guider claimed the cat was scratching his automotive.
Ceglia says Oreo was her 4-year-old daughter’s finest good friend, and this by no means ought to have occurred.
“There are so many routes he could’ve taken, and instead, he decided to take a 4-year-old’s best friend away,” she stated.
Guider was arrested Monday evening after allegedly lacing cat meals with antifreeze. Police say he admitted to the crime. He is going through one depend of animal cruelty.
Neighbors took it upon themselves to publish indicators warning pet house owners to maintain their dogs and cats inside, in accordance with Ceglia.
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