Apr. 13

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) Police arrested a 30-year-old man Wednesday in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, for allegedly abusing pet ferrets and posting footage of the act on the Internet.

Shinichi Moriyama, an employee at a major electric appliance maker, was quoted as telling police he did it "to relieve stress" from work and he had killed "20 or 30 ferrets, hamsters and other animals from around November 2005."

Moriyama is suspected of breaking the Law Concerning the Protection and Control of Animals by hitting at least one ferret on the head several times and attempting to choke it at his home Feb. 12. He also cut off its teeth.

Police also alleged that Moriyama took footage of the tortured animal and posted it on 2 Ch, a popular Internet bulletin board, adding comments like, "I bit it in the leg in revenge" for being bitten on the finger, police said.

If convicted, Moriyama faces up to a year in prison or a fine of 1 million yen for injuring or killing a pet without justifiable reasons

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WOW,........that's all I can say with out getting into trouble.

I hate people who are cruel to animals. I had a couple of ferrets before. They are so cute and fun. I hope he gets in alot of trouble.

It makes you wonder if this guy would have stayed happy killing little animals or if he would have worked himself up to humans. A serial killer in the making?

They do say most serial killers started with animals.

Yup, that's the first thing that I thought of when I read the thread.

That is so horrible . I'm glad they caught him, and I hope he is in a lot of trouble.

I'm sure they will do a complete psych work up on him.

What a sicko

Sick, I hope they have prison justice in Japan for people who torture wittle animals.

"I bit it in the leg in revenge" for being bitten on the finger, police said.


What a J.Ass! And he does all this to relieve stress?!? All I can say is that he deserves to be in jail and what a idiot..

Deserves to be in there for well over a year. Life would be more like it. Sick b******.