Tests will confirm whether cat died from heroin overdose; Woman arrested

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2011-07-08 20:04

Story here. Excerpt:

'BOULDER, Colo. – A Boulder woman has been arrested for allegedly killing a cat by blowing heroin smoke into its face, according to Boulder Police.

21-year-old Danielle Blankenship was arrested Tuesday around 11:30 a.m. on charges of cruelty to animals, third degree assault, and domestic violence. She is being held in the Boulder County Jail on $1,500 bond.

Police say they were responding to a domestic violence call in the 1100 block of 30th St. Tuesday morning after Blankenship’s boyfriend called police to report that she hit him in the face.
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Police asked if the cat, named Muffin, had been hit or kicked accidently, to which Blankenship told officers that she would never hurt the cat.

Animal control then took the animal to get help at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley where vets began treating it for poisoning.'

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Man gets hit in the face. Cat gets top billing. Enough said.

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Submitted by Tom on Sat, 2011-07-09 11:08

about the domestic violence against the man, no harm done there.

just stuff about a dead cat, and the really serious crime there.

yeah guys, they really really really do love you.

and will love you FOREVER, or until you lose your job,

or somebody else comes along, whichever comes first.

i hate playing this game, but if the roles were reversed the

'journalista' would have had a field day, and he killed the cat too!

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Submitted by daveinga on Sun, 2011-07-10 02:02

Daveinga said: 'journalista' would have had a field day, and he killed the cat too!

Exactly! It would have been framed like "What kind of EVIL sob would hit a woman and then kill the cat?" He is the worst of the worst.

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Submitted by Tom on Sun, 2011-07-10 10:20

I don't see the issue here between the cat's life being considered greater than the man's right to be unstruck by his (undoubtedly ex or soon to be ex) girlfriend nor do I see evidence that the authorities *in this case* are more disturbed by what happened to the cat than the man. And admittedly the cat is dead, so if the gf's behavior caused both incidents, realize for perspective's sake the cat paid for her violence with its life while the man paid for her violence with a blow to the face. That is not to minimize what happened to him; it is to point up the level of severity of the crime as it relates to each entity involved as a victim: the cat and the man.

Here is my take on what I think happened:

She was getting good and high and thought she would have fun with the cat (and whose cat this is for sure the article doesn't say and if it is not hers, then how did it get into the place?). She blew heroin into the cat's face (and exactly how she did this, I dunno-- it would seem hard to imagine she grabbed the cat and sealed her lips around its face and blew the smoke into its lungs though people who are high have been known to do some very weird things. Possibly even blowing smoke in the typical sense would be enough but I am not a vet and can't say if it would be or not). But in any case, she may or may not have blown heroin into the cat's face and if she did, it's possible this would have left the poor animal staggering along until it died.

No matter what about the cat, the bf shows up and sees she is high as a kite. She says she wants a ride and probably not to enable her or to show his anger toward her heroin-smoking, he says no. She then asks to use his phone to get a ride from someone else and he also says no to this. And being high and thinking it's fine for her to beat up on her bf, she hits him. That's when he calls the cops and then when they get there, he tells them the story. They also then notice the dead cat and make inquiries. Denial all around regarding how a cat that lived there (or nearby) got so freshly-dead, they theorize she did something to it and then sent the body for a necropsy.

That's my theory.

UPDATE: The cat belonged to the accused's housemate, according to this story: http://www.lifewithcats.tv/2011/07/07/felony-charge-looms-if-cat-died-from-heroin-smoke/

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2011-07-10 17:22