Kids nowadays - they can’t do anything right. Just ask 39-year-old Daniel Collins.
Kids can’t change their own oil, they can’t fix a toilet, they can’t cook up their own meals, they don’t know how to kill.
Worthless.
But that’s what parents are there for. Parents help their kids learn what they need to learn in order to make it in society, in order to succeed.
So if Daniel Collins had kids who couldn’t change their own oil, he’d go out and show them how.
If Daniel Collins had kids who couldn’t fix their own toilet, he’d sit down and teach them how to do it properly.
And when Daniel Collins found out that his kids didn’t know how to kill, well…they had a spare cat just walking around, eating food and contributing nothing to the well-being of the household.
Daniel Collins, who gets really, really drunk on a regular basis, was taking care of his two kids on the 9th of March, 2008. The children, an 11-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl, lived with their grandparents but were visiting their dad because that’s what being a family is all about.
Also in the house at the time was an 8-month-old cat, a pet that the kids had named “Boots.”
“Boots” had to die.
Daniel Collins felt that if his 11-year-old son stabbed the animal to death, it would make the boy more of a man, or less of a boy, or more of a procurer of Chinese cuisine, or something. So, taking a kitchen knife and putting it in his son’s hands, he told the kid to stab the cat to death.
While Daniel Collins may be an idiot, his son seems to be a pretty bright and brave kid. While his father was in the bathroom, the boy, thinking quickly, put ketchup on the blade of the knife, hid the cat in a bedroom and told his dad that he’d done as he had been told.
But cats meow. And they scratch at doors.
Daniel Collins, who, despite being blitzed, realized that he’d been had, grabbed the cat and proceeded to strangle and stab it, forcing his kids to watch the animal die.
Not satisfied with this cruelty, Daniel Collins put the knife in his 7-year-old daughter’s hands and forced her to stab her pet as well.
With “Boots” dead, Daniel Collins threw the carcass to his son and told the boy to put it outside in the trash.
The kids, who were undoubtedly waiting right by the door for their grandparents to pick them up, told the grandparents what their dad had made them do. The grandparents called the police, who went and arrested Daniel Collins.
Daniel Collins was charged with animal cruelty, battery on a juvenile, and two counts of neglect of a dependent. All these charges are Class D felonies which usually deliver 18-month prison terms.
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I want to kill this guy so, so much.
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Damn smart kid, that is.
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all you have to say is that the man disposed of the animal wrong.. moron..
anyways. this man DEFINETLY needs to rot in hell!! no 2 ways about it that’s where he WILL go.
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Miwist reply on March 16, 2008:
I didn’t say wrong, I said ILLEGALLY. Sheesh
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Whoever voted no is a fucking asshole who will burn in hell as well. Piece of shit. I want this guy dead.
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You know, I don’t think I have ever wanted any person on PYSIH dead more than this man.
Rape babies? Murder your girlfriend? Well, that’s bad, but… not the cat, you motherfucker!
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LilMissSunshine reply on March 18, 2008:
lol totally agree… maybe he raped the cat and killed it because he didn’t want it to talk…
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there is a new breed of parent and kid noadays
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I’m a pet owner, love cats, and think of them as precious in my life, but I think the sacrifice of this cat actually has done a good thing.
The truly monstrous, often begin their monstrous behavior on animals, and no animals are closer to man than our pets. That can be a litmus before a human being goes on the line in front of these sick monsters or worse yet they infect their brood with this kind of cruelty.
A good friend of mines father once said, “I don’t think I would want to go to heaven if my Dogs didn’t get to come too.”
This sentiment I share to cats. These children are free of this monster. I hope it doesn’t mess them up for life, I hope this sacrifice is what will help free them. And to boots, I truly hope there is a better place for you. Some place with toy mice and fields of catnip.
or Better yet… maybe Cat Heaven will be human hell, and you’ll be the one holding the knife the next time you meet Daniel John Collins. Given how cats play with their food, I wish you a long an eventful game with this monster, if that should be the case.
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Dr. Extreme reply on March 17, 2008:
Oooh. I would pay MONEY to see this guy being tormented by giant cats.
Maybe we should feed him to a smilodon.
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Sarah reply on March 17, 2008:
I couldn’t agree more. My question is, why are we going to try and rehabilitate someone who is so obviously off kilter that he shouldn’t be allowed to see the light of day again. Maybe we’ll all get lucky and he’ll have to bunk with a feline enthusiest in the clink.
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What a sicko! If anything he should have just gotten rid of the cat on his own time when the kids were away. Talk about a sick mother fucker.
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being a avid cat lover myself, i’d REALLY enjoy bumping into this guy in a dark alley, see how he feel when i rip his fucking guts out.
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I think what needs to be done to this guy is he should be rubbed down in raw meat and thrown into a tiger cage. Let the punishment fit the crime. I really feel for the kids. They have to live the rest of their lives knowing that their father is a psycho.
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While I have pets, it’s not so much the fact that he killed the cats as the fact that he had to involve the children.
Firstly, if this is how he behaves on visitation, then how does he behave the rest of the time?
Secondly why wait until the kids are there to get rid of the cat.
Third, I think it’s stupid to assune that he killed the cat to teach them a lesson in killing, but rather his lesson may have been something along the lines of “you must punish the bad kitty as to understand why I must punish you…”
Where are the child endangerment charges?
The lid was supposed to kill an animal - so the child was given a weapon. Also if the child did not kill the cat in the first stab, there is always the possibility that cute kitty could become a monster / killing machine in its own defense. Some animals choose fight and esp when there is not flight option.
Mentally these kids are messed up, but I am sure that some bleeding heart judge (Mr Weepy for Anna Nicole Smoth) will want to see this POS fully rehabbed and understand that child visitation will be a “major part” of the rehab process.
So when will he loose the right? Maybe when he disciplines one of the children like he wanted them to do with the cat?
Also given that he was drunk at the time and forcing his child to handle a weapon??? Where is the endangerment charges???
Whomever failed to press the charges or was a part of getting thopse charges dropped deserves hell as well. Such people are a major partofthe problem!
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I saw this a couple of days ago, and was SOOO hoping to see the story here. I was tempted to write it myself if it wasn’t.
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Hell? Oh, yeah. First, for killing the children’s pet, and secondly, for the waste-face to force his children to participate.
He didn’t have custody of his children. Gee, I wonder why?
The little boy was so sweet, in trying to protect his cat. Clever, but no match for a POS loser, sadly.
This is child abuse, to force children to see any kind of animal cruelty. Children, until indoctrinated otherwise, instictively love and bond with animals. That’s why almost all children’s books use animals to tell the story. Not much different from the kinds of abusers who threaten children with animal harm- though most of those POSs don’t force their children to participate. Sick, MF. Normal people don’t WANT their children to know how to kill animals for fun.
This is why we need stricter laws regarding animal abuse. This POS needs a system that will piggyback all his crimes at once. Such as, child abuse, animal abuse and cruelty, emotional abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor (after all, he was teaching them how to do something illegal), any custody violations (is he legally allowed to get shit-faced drunk in the presence of his children?), etc. Our animal cruelty/abuse laws are so lax, most POS only get probabtion. Or the idiotic ordering of forced community service at the local shelter, which is one place an animal abuser should NEVER be allowed to volunteer. Pile on every charge at once, instead of watering them down as child abuse/or/animal abuse. Animal abuse SHOULD result in jail time. Because animals are legally considered property, they aren’t given the protections they deserve.
This POS also needs to have his parental rights terminated ASAP. Nothing good can come of these children having any contact with him. When weighing his parental rights vs the children’s rights to NOT be abused, their rights should trump his.
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On a different note- Miwist… where I live, it is illegal to dispose of an animal in the garbage. But, it’s also illegal to bury them in your yard. The only legal options we have here are to have the SPCA pick up the body, or pay to have them buried on the SPCA cemetary grounds (or cremated). The latter 2 options are too expensive for most people.
That leaves letting your vet or the SPCA dispose of your pet. Google ‘dog, cat, rendering plant, spca’ or any variation of those to get a clue why I do the illegal thing and bury my pets in my yard.
Here’s a link that has more info.
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/petfood2.html
An excerpt— “After acquiring a list of US shelters and veterinary clinics, I e-mailed 102 veterinarians in private practice in California and asked how they disposed of euthanised animals. Ninety per cent of the 78 veterinarians who responded stated that they sent the animals to rendering. The replies I received named two companies that picked up the animals from their facilities: D&D Disposal in California, and Koefran Services in Nevada.
An employee at a Humane Society branch in California wrote that in his area, Escondido, D&D Disposal picks up approximately 100 bodies each week. In the same area, there are three other shelters and more than 100 veterinarians using the same disposal company. D&D was rather hard to locate, but fortunately one shelter had a complete address for them. D&D shares the same address as West Coast Rendering in Vernon, California. Interestingly, Baker Commodities, another rendering plant notorious for rendering companion animals, is within a block of West Coast Rendering, as is a large pet food company that produces several popular brands of pet food.
Koefran Incorporated, the company that also picks up dogs and cats in California and Nevada, operates a rendering plant, Reno Rendering, in Reno, Nevada, and in Provo, Utah. In Utah, Koefran Services also picks up animal carcasses with the approval of county commissioners.
Have we turned our pets into cannibals?”
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That grosses me out to no end. I dont feel so bad though, as only one of my dead cats ended up at D&D. Although I give my dog and cats supplemental organic kibble (and Avopet makes a veggie canned food that my dog and cats love), I also pretty much give them all whatever leftovers I have on any given night. The only things they wont eat are lettuce and grapes. Most of them like corn-on-the-cob (a great veggie ‘bone’ to gnaw at), melons, tomatoes, beans, rice, carrots, apples. bananas… you name it, they’ll eat it. Both the dog and the cats’ favourite snacky is dampened dried nori sheets. (Sushi seaweed wrappers). And Brewer’s yeast. Almost all of my pets have lived from 13-22 years of age, so I’m going to guess having ‘real’ food might have had something to do with it.
Please, check the link, or google the subject if you are interested. And then call your SPCA, Animal Control, veterinary offices, to try to get the facts about how many dogs/cats in your county are being sold to rendering plants.
Even the BIG conglomerate-owned petfoods companies use those products in petfoods.
Some key words you might want to look into if you see them in the list of ingredients of your pet food container=
Meat meal, bone meal, meat by-products, animal fat, tallow, animal digest, digest, blood meal, etc.
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It’s interesting to note that many animals that are deemed unfit for human consumption are reintroduced into the food chain by being processed into feed for the animals we consume. Nice touch, eh?
Anyway, my original comment was , believe or not, somewhat tongue in cheek.
I believe Mr. Collins deserves more than hell, or jail. A good psychological exam is in order and all rights to his children should be terminated.
I doubt the abuse started or will end with the killing of kitty and the effects of the children being exposed to a cat-killing alcoholic are so far reaching. Those two are probably well on their way to becoming abusers themselves.
I hope they’re able to break the cycle of abuse.
2 of our cats love grapes-the other 2 wouldn’t touch “human” food if their lives depended on it. The dog wouldn’t know the difference between a grape and a steak.
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Nebraska Mom reply on March 18, 2008:
Don’t feed grapes to your cats, it is poisonous like chocolates. Not even rasins.
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Miwist reply on March 18, 2008:
They never show any ill-effects - just alittle nibblin’ - but rest assured - no kitty killin’ goin’ on here.
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GloryBug reply on March 18, 2008:
I have never heard anything before about the danger of feeding dogs or cats grapes or raisins. Ever. What exactly is it about grapes that is supposedly dangerous? I have known other people who have fed their pets grapes, but they cut them in half (I was under the impression that the reason dogs/cats avoided them was because they did not like biting into whole grapes. Kind of like how my pets don’t like eating whole olives, but love them if they are sliced.) I’ve never heard that grapes are ‘poisonous’ to pets. Can someone enlighten me? I bought grapes today- none of my cats or dog have any interest in eating any of them, so there’s no worry that they’ll be poisoned- but I’m curious about it.
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Nebraska Mom reply on March 19, 2008:
Grapes and/or rasins cause kidney failure in dogs. They aren’y sure why, but I’m assuming they are not good for cats either.
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Nebraska Mom reply on March 19, 2008:
ok~ I googled ‘grapes and cats’. They are toxic to cats as well. Contact the Animal Poison Control Center they should be able to explain it more.
This story has me confused. It’s implied here that the children were dropped off at the ‘dad’s house (I use the term ‘dad’ liberally here), yet many news reports state that the ‘dad’ actually visited the children at the grandparent’s home. That it was not the ‘dad’s’ cat, but rather the family’s (read: grandparent’s) pet.
I have a problem with it both ways. If it was the ‘dad’ going to the grandparent’s… where were they?
If it was the children being dropped off at the ‘dad’s’ home… where were they?
It’s clear the children were very aware of what a POS this POS was when he was drunk. Where were the grandparents? Where was the mother?
Jason- I am so glad you wrote what you did. Because I thought it, but was reluctant to write it. I did think about how it would be ‘just’ for this POS to end up in kitty/doggy hell. I was told at a young age by my BAC adoptive parents that animals did not go to heaven because they don’t have souls.
And then, the next 38 years of my life proved them wrong. Animals do have souls. They have individuality, even if we don’t want to recognize it. And, my a-parents might have been right. Animals have no need to end up in heaven or in hell, because they do not have the ability to choose evil the way people do.
Children. They start off innocent like animals. That’s why they identify so strongly with animals when they are little. But they have the curse of being human. Which is, that at some point, they can be taught to be mean, bad, evil. And, that it’s fun to be that way. It’s the Achilles Heel for humans. And, bad for cats and other animals.
Animals do not have that flaw. They aren’t capable of forethought.
Ask any kindegartner if they’d like some dead cow/pig/chicken on their pizza or in their food, and they’ll freak out. Ask that same kid the question when they’re in JR high, and they’ll say ‘who cares?’. Desensitizing is good for business, eh?
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I read several newswires about the case and it was reported on all but one that the kids actually were at his house for visitation. One report just said “during a visitation” not specifying where that took place.
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Oh my god. How awful. This guy appalls me even more than the baby-rapers. His kids are going to need a lot of therapy and I hope they get it. It will be awhile before they stop blaming themselves for the death of the cat.
I hope Daniel Collins is never allowed to see his children again.
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Hell for cat murderers but not for baby rapists?
I really do not understand people anymore.
But I am thinking that that might not be such a bad thing.
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