Edmonton Man Who Killed and Cooked Family Cat Is Sentenced to Six Months in Jail

When news broke in 2014 about the three Edmonton teens who stole their friend's cat and proceeded to stab, skin, and cook it near a ravine, the stories came with the requisite trigger warnings.

This case has made headlines since and was revisited yesterday when 20-year-old Wendell Mah was sentenced to six months in jail. Mah will also be on 18 months of probation and is prohibited from owning pets for five years. He pleaded guilty to the crime last November. This verdict comes almost two years after one of the other killers, Zachary McKinnon, now 21, was sentenced to 10 months in jail, with three years of probation and a 10-year ban on owning pets. The owner of the cat, Derek North, said he was "unbelievably disappointed" with Mah's sentence. His family adopted the cat, Pudge, when North was just three years old. After the animal's death 17 years later, North said it was like losing a brother. It was disclosed in court that McKinnon was upset with North because he allegedly stole his iPod. On February 13, 2014 and messaged Mah saying that he wanted to kill someone that day. He then asked Mah if he knew "how to cook cat." McKinnon, Mah, and another teen, who cannot be identified because he was a minor at the time, met up after school that day with knives. Crown prosecutor Christian Lim said they "took turns poking, stabbing and jabbing the cat with knives." A bystander eventually reported the fire that the teens made to burn Pudge's corpse. According to the National Post, Judge Elizabeth Johnson said while Mah is unlikely to do this type of thing again, he's been proven to have "socialization deficits." North said that he was hoping Mah would be sent to jail for a least a year. Follow Ebony-Renee Baker on Twitter.