So society and the law are against what this person is accused of, but meanwhile people who work for companies and universities can torture cats and other beings to death, pumping poisonous chemicals into them and burning their eyes with chemicals and breaking their legs and backs and all kinds of tremendous tortures and horrible cruelties, but those people are protected. This whole nation subjects billions of beings to horrific tortures and murders and imports torture products from other nations as well to fill our stores. And what about all the people who for "fun" go and shoot innocent beings like deer with no care about what their victims experience, huh? Those people are guilty of what they make their victims experience. This one person should not be singled out by society without those others.

Posted by: drew | June 17, 2009 11:50 AM

I dissected a cat in med school. I can admit it made me kind of sad, since I had to take apart a cat that looked just like mine. I had asked my instructor where they had come from and they had told me that they were donated by their owners if they were euthanized and even some euthanized strays. I actually didn't know about the abuse that these animals have to go through, perfectly healthy cats before they end up on the dissection table. Makes me actually want to cry and I know I will never do that again, if asked to.

Posted by: Denise | June 17, 2009 12:14 PM

I'm against dissection but at the same time I haven't killed my loveable kittens just because I dissected a frog for 10 grade biology.

Why my other post didn't get approved for posting I'll apparently not understand

Posted by: Pepsi One is Fun | June 17, 2009 01:02 PM

I am disgusting that such a disturbed individual can get out on bail. He should be kept off our streets, away from humans and animals. I'm looking for PETA to help the average citizen make our voice heard,especially during his trial and at sentencing.

Posted by: michelle | June 17, 2009 05:43 PM

Study after study verify that people who violently harm or kill animals are very likely to commit harm to humans. It's inevitable. This cat serial killer is a vicious degenerate and a terrorist.

Posted by: Brien Comerford | June 17, 2009 09:19 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if there were some other clues beforehand that this young man's behavior was questionable. If that were the case he should have never been allowed to participate in the dissections.

I'm not saying I agree with dissections but being around the HS element I know that only mature and honor roll students are allowed to participate in dissections. Although it may seem a contradiction, they were taught to be respectful of all animals, alive or dead. If they showed the slightest inappropriate behavior they were removed from the activity permanently.

I think these types of characters have something lacking altogether in spite of the dissections.

Posted by: Tamra | June 17, 2009 11:38 PM

When i was in school, we never disected animals, jsut parts of them. we did a heart in college, and an cow's eye in highschool... they were from the local butcher. It sickens me that people would grab animals off the street to dissect, and i must say, i saw no real advantage in dissecting something, i would have learned just as much from looking a pictures and diagrams, if not more, instead of having everyone making jokes, or vomiting. It was a distraction more than a lesson.

Posted by: Meg | June 18, 2009 02:24 AM

Umm, you do understand that there is a difference between causation and correlation don't you? From the info provided there appears simply to be a correlation between his behavior and having participated in dissections.

Posted by: bomias | June 18, 2009 02:37 PM

There is nothing to be learned from dissections. Nothing! It is cruel and barbaric. This kid needs to be punished to the fullest extent of the law because as far as I am concerned he is a mental case and should be evaluated!!!!!

Posted by: Carla | June 18, 2009 06:58 PM

He actually does look evil in that picture. And he really has a smug look like that he "thinks" he won't get in trouble for all that he has done.
But I do agree, pictures and diagrams work just as well. My friend just bought a dissection kit for her 10 year old. ALL PLASTIC but I couldn't believe how real it looked and how acurrate it was. If you need to learn that is they way to go. But the actual dissection isn't his problem he just isn't playing with a full deck. Maybe the dissection was what brought it out but if it wasn't that it just would have been something else. Not only has he been stopped from brutally killing cats but I would bet a million bucks (if i had it) that with him in jail, someone's life has been saved. Maybe more than one.

Posted by: Alicia | June 18, 2009 11:32 PM

I live in the neighborhood that Mr. Weinman has terrorized. I worried for my pets safety daily. Today I read that the High School that he attended permited the disection of cats. I was shocked! I am curious if this occurs at other schools. I appreciate PETAs letter to the principle of Palmetto High School. I will also be sending the proncipal a letter,. Another letter will be sent to the superintendent of Miami Dade Public Schools.
If anyone else is intrested then I have listed various numbers and emails below.

Superintendent:
Alberto Carvalho
EMAIL: superintendentsoffice@dadeschools.net
PHONE # 305-995-1430

cheers,
jules

Posted by: julie L Friel | June 19, 2009 12:31 AM

This guy has a horible smug face, i do believe that your values start from the home, if you are brought up respecting animals it carries through to your teens to adult. It shocks me to think that schools and colleges allow students to dissect animals, we are at our most vunerable and impressionable when young, it increases the chance of young boys going around torturing animals. There is no educated means from disecting animals.

Posted by: Jacqueline | June 19, 2009 09:28 AM

I don't think that dissection is acceptable, but this seems a bit exaggerated. I definitely don't approve of animals being killed so that students can see the inside of something. There really are a bunch of other alternatives to this senseless killing. But somehow, I don't think dissecting animals leads to homicide.

Posted by: N. | June 19, 2009 02:52 PM

Hey everyone, if you left a comment on this blog that isn't posted, we might have felt your comment deserved a more personal response directly from PETA. Thanks for all your feedback, and you should be hearing from us shortly.

Posted by: Shawna Flavell | June 19, 2009 03:20 PM

It would be a disservice to justice if this guy would walk out with just a slap on the wrist after the torture that he submitted the cats to. And he is a potential serial killer by not being able to show sensitivity towards other beings pain.

Posted by: Margarita | June 21, 2009 06:48 PM

We were suppose to dissect a cat in high school. But due to me "littering" the school with posters on how our school supports animal curelty kinda put a stop to it...little did I know there was already a dissected cat from another classroom prior to this and was put on display in a cabnet. Again the school got littered with posters, only this time, I had the help of classmates.

But, I don't believe dissection can lead to violence. Yes it is wrong but maybe this does go farther then the lab project...

Posted by: Andrea | June 24, 2009 01:52 PM

In my 11th grade anatomy class, one of our labs is to disect a cat. Im a vegetarian and disagree with any type of cruelty to animals. I was recently reading a book about the spirituality of being a vegetarian and in some states, people have the right to refuse disection. I personally beleive that this should be a federal law. Not everyone thinks its ok to be cruel.

Posted by: Jordan Bailey | June 25, 2009 11:03 AM

@ Jordan Bailey: We'll be e-mailing you very soon. In the meantime, you should totally check out our new TeachKind Web page. It's full of alternatives to animal dissection: http://teachkind.org/humanesci_dissection.asp.

Posted by: Shawna Flavell | June 25, 2009 04:59 PM

I'm sorry but, I dissected a pig in 10th grade, does that mean I'll become a killer too?

Don't get me wrong this guy is a sick young man who needs to have his ass kicked by all of those cat owners who lost their precious kitties. If that dude came after my cat, he wouldn't be able to bear children.

But I disagree with the part that dissections create killers. It gives an understanding to a student of how the body is and what organs are, and how they function.

Without these dissections we wouldn't have Vets to save our precious pets since they learn through dissection.
Even doctors who are in charge of saving us learn through dissection. It's a part of the learning process, for high school and college students.

So please don't assume that because students have dissected an animal that would make them an animal killer. The fact that this jerk above dissected an animal is two separate issues. He's a sick person, and needs help ASAP or he'll probably kill a human sooner or later.

Posted by: TennyoAkana | September 24, 2009 11:54 AM

They are doing this at Franklin High School in WI! I am so sick about it! I think it is horrible and disgusting!

Posted by: erika | November 11, 2009 02:33 PM

I'm an oddity I suppose in todays latest and greatest society, but I don't believe anyone or any thing should have to suffer torture and death for any reason. How about all of us animal lovers join the "Right to Life" and spare the unborn children from being dissected alive. huh!!!!! That's torture!

Posted by: Don Adkins | November 13, 2009 08:32 AM