Black Cat Still Bad Luck: Woman Fined in Kidnap of Feline
A woman has been sentenced to 60 hours of community service work after being convicted of putting out a contract to kidnap a neighbor’s cat.
Valerie Ann Kulas, 31, of Duluth was found guilty of aiding and abetting a misdemeanor theft by paying two 17-year-old boys $20 each to bring her Bobo, a 3 1/2-year-old black cat owned by Susan Everett.
The boys testified in a trial early this week that they grabbed Bobo off Everett’s porch in May and took him across the alley to Kulas’ apartment.
Kulas admitted she offered to pay the boys to find the cat that injured her cat, Bandit, in a fight. But she said she thought the cat was a stray and wanted to turn him over to the Duluth Animal Shelter.
She said she released Bobo after deciding he wasn’t the guilty feline. But the cat has never been found, and Everett said Bobo would have returned had he been freed.
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