Jason Wilmert Arrested for Allegedly Skinning, Grilling and Eating Stray Cats

By Dennis Romero Thu., Feb. 16 2012 at 5:44 PM

Categories: WTF

Quinn Dombrowski

Updated at the bottom with some gory details. First posted at 5:01 p.m. Wednesday.

In today's edition of WTF, we bring you one Jason Wilmert.

Authorities allege the 35-year-old was nourishing himself with dead stray cats. Not only that, but reports indicate he might have even killed and skinned the cats for his daily meals.

We don't make this stuff up:

Kern County Sheriff's Department inmate records show that not only was Wilmert arrested on suspicion of cruelty to animals but also based on this unique violation: "ANIMALS COMMONLY KEPT AS PETS OR COMPANIONS; USE AS FOOD."

Verbatim.

He was arrested early this month and has a court hearing Friday.

Wilmert was being held in lieu of $7,500 bail. He also faced other allegations, including resisting a peace officer, littering and unauthorized burning of refuse, worth another $15,000 bail, according to records.

Fox 58 in Bakersfield interviewed neighbor Joe Nuno, who gave this wonderful account:

The lady right here saw him holding a tail, skinning it. It is still alive ... I heard a cat cry really, really loud. And I came outside, because I'm an animal lover.

He peeked into the suspect's backyard and says he witnessed feline a la grill:

He's cooking. He's got a little burner going.

He said it smelled like "awful meat."

Ew.

We called Kern County Sheriff's officials this afternoon for comment but had yet to hear back. Read more here.

[Update at 5:44 p.m. Thursday]: The Kern County Sheriff's Department today sent a statement about the case to the Weekly. It contains some gory details.

It says that deputies were called to the suspect's house at 1015 Wilson Ave about 10:50 a.m. on Feb. 3. The caller said the man had decapitated a cat.

Deputies say they confirmed the claim:

The deputy then walked to the rear yard of the residence down the driveway and observed what appeared to be the decapitated head of a cat lying on the grass in the back yard ... Deputies searched the home and located the carcass of the dead cat.

Soon they arrested him on suspicion of "possessing the carcass of a pet for food."

Yep.

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Tags:

animal rights, cats, eating cats, Kern County

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You gotta eat them before the cats eat you first!

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If eating pussy is illegal lock me up and throw away the key....

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beerboy the pussy is a lot more gamey on the inside big fella. Might have to altar your tastes... literally.

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Tastes like chicken....

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Animal hoarders and creeps like this guy with weird animal fetishes flock to Kern County because there is very little enforcement of the woefully inadequate animal welfare laws on its books. Kern County is so vast, it's very difficult to police so hoarders/abusers get away with stuff. The authorities have to rely on complaints from neighbors. Since many of them are doing the same or similar things, animal abuse tends to be unreported.

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