A liar and an animal sadist
Sunday News reports:
A MAN who has admitted feeding live kittens to his pitbull and videoing it, has apologised for the massacre and has claimed he’s an “animal lover”.
“I love cats. I love all animals big time. Anyone who knows me knows I love animals,” Te Ahu Mankelow told Sunday News in an exclusive interview yesterday. …
Father-of-three Mankelow claims the killings were an accident and he simply admitted the SPCA’s version of events in the hope he’d be punished and his dog’s life would be spared. …
He said after being told his dog was off its chain he discovered the Labrador/Ridgeback/pitbull-cross had savaged several of the kittens.
“I was like `oh my dog,’ I knew it was wrong and I was really worried for my dog,” Mankelow said.
“It was disgusting for me … I broke down when the SPCA showed me the video.”
Mankelow said he fed one kitten to his dog because it was almost dead and he didn’t have the strength to finish it off himself.
“It might sound stupid but I just thought it would be faster my dog would just finish it off.
“I didn’t want to pick it up or whack it on the head.
So his version is that his dog got loose and killed the kittens, and all he did was feed one kitten to his dog as the kitten was mortally wounded anyway, and that he was disgusted by what happened.
Well that is a very different matter. Except of course that he is a liar, as the SPCA has the video of what he did. Here’s their response:
SPCA national chief inspector Charles Cadwallader said Mankelow was “lying his teeth off”.
He said the cellphone video clearly showed Mankelow feeding at least four of the cats to his dog.
“When the footage starts there’s five live kittens there, and the type of language there is saying, `f***ing Pipi, what a mouth,’ and `man, you can hear the bones crack’, stuff like that,” he said. “One after another they’re (the kittens) given to the dog. The video is almost two minutes long and you can hear the kittens screaming until they’re all gone.”
You can hear the bones crack!
If he showed some genuine remorse that would be a great thing. But instead he is in denial and lying and refusing to accept responsibility. I hope the Judge takes this into account.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Three or Five years doesn’t seem like enough for this type of sadistic, cruel behaviour. His remorse is no doubt aimed at reducing the penalty, hope the Judge watches the video right before sentencing – the SPCA description sounds sickening.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
I wonder how far along, in an aimless and unscheduled way of course, this bloke was in the selection of his first human victim.
JC
February 7th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Tom Ford (Grey Lynn)
01:48PM Wednesday, 03 Feb 2010
Are we talking all animals or just pets? If the new bill actually includes all animals, how will it alter the cruel treatment of the ones at the battery hen farms, factory pig farms, dairy cow farms, salmon farms, commercial fishing trawlers, and slaughterhouses?
Or are …we being selective as usual – finding it OK to brutally slaughter millions of animals we choose to eat but not cats or dogs? In some cultures it’s normal to eat dogs just as some cultures would not eat pigs or worship cows.
Why do we call to justice someone that kills 33 dogs but not someone that slaughters thousands of chickens everyday? The animals themselves do not have lawyers to do complex deals with humans, they never agreed to a constitution with us that states: “We the chickens give humans the right to slaughter us as they please but they must not harm the kittens.”
If we are serious about the preventing of cruelty to animals then we should stop being hypocrites and stop farming and consumption. If anyone out there screams about animal protection and has a big fat steak for dinner then they should realise the horrific irony and keep schtum.
Bob Kerridge of the SPCA himself is a pretty big hypocrite too considering he has no issues with eating meat.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3300884/More-bite-for-new-animal-cruelty-laws
Is this going to work? The answer is, of course, no it ain’t. Our Prime Minister is nothing but a populist – his thinking process goes like this. SAFE raised awareness about factory farmed pigs last year, making the general public passionate about animal welfare. I must try and make the government look like it’s doing …something, but without having too much impact on our agricultural economy. So I’ll get MAF to draft the bill (‘cos they know all about animal rights – yeah right)! And then after that the public will feel satisfied that we’ve done something to address the issue. When really it was just a tweaking of penalties for those who make the abuse obvious – it won’t actually do anything to change egg laying hens or dairy cows or slaughterhouse practices.
And then if the activists want further change after this they’ll simply be perceived as extremists who aren’t happy unless the world goes vegan and the public will have moved on by then as they feel like they have done their part. The animal rights issue is now dealt with.
Meanwhile, in other animal-cruelty news, the SPCA is looking into crayfish-catching machines which have been popping up in bars around Auckland. The machines are modeled on the arcade games which use a metal claw to grab soft toys. Winners of the $3 game can either have the animal killed and cooked by the establishment, or take the live cray home in a plastic bag. SPCA spokesman Bob Kerridge says an investigation into whether the animals suffer in the games is nearly complete. A Facebook group campaigning against the games is organising a rally which will take place in Auckland’s CBD tomorrow outside a bar which has one of the machines.
Basically most animal lovers think it’s hideous. They have no problem with killing and eating crays, but chasing them around a tank with a claw? Evil.
Most don’t realise that most crays are boiled alive? That’s a lot more evil than chasing them around a tank with a claw. Why do people have no problem with killing and eating them? Who are they to decide whether animals deserve to live or die?
February 7th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Drop this freak down a well.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
That’ a real piece of work all right.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Arseholes like Mankelow just lie. They will never accept responsibility.
The “not-my-fault” problem is endemic in our society: from people blaming stress and booze for crime, to parents blaming schools for their dense kids, to weirdos blaming imagined “progressives” for their inability to succeed in life.
Occasionally people do accept responsibility in court, but all too often it seems a cynical calculated attempt to mitigate a sentence if the chance of a not-guilty verdict is low.
No excuses kitty-killer, accept your crime.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
And as for the nutter at 12:33 PM, why is it that every time a vegan posts, they only succeed in demonstrating how important an adequate supply of iron, creatine, and protein is to proper brain functioning, with their random screed of copy-and-paste non sequiturs ? Go have a steak and come back when your head is working clearly.
February 7th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Bob Kerridge of the SPCA himself is a pretty big hypocrite too considering he has no issues with eating meat.
Eating meat that is humanely killed and raised is fine.
I don’t know how humane the killing of pigs is, but the way they are bred and raised in New Zealand on factory farms is definitely inhumane – more inhumane than the fate of those kittens – notwithstanding the fact that Mankelow is a psychopath in the making.
Imagine if you confined your pet dog to dimly lit space barely large enough for him to lie down – and never let him out for a walk, never allowed him to play, forcing him to stand and sleep in his own faeces. Imagine if you did this for only a few days – I’m sure Bob Kerridge if he found out would be on you like a ton of bricks.
Yet we do this to thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of pigs for their entire lifetimes.
Pigs are as intelligent if not more so than dogs, they have the capacity to feel pain, terror, pschological stress in the same way that all higher level animals do. The fact is not all animals are equal – keeping chickens in such conditions, as long as real physical pain is minimized is less cruel than keeping pigs in the same way – cruelty depends not only on the action but the capacity of the victim to feel physical and mental pain.
So yes dogs are deserving of more respect than chickens and fish, and chickens and fish more than lobster (perhaps) and lobster more than pipies and cockles. In this respect I would have no problem with Mr Kerridge’s priorities.
But then the way pigs are treated is absolutely no different, if not even slightly worse, than doing same to pet dogs.
In this respect Mr Kerridge is a hypocrite.
February 7th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Perhaps Whale could publish this monster’s name and address, then I’m sure he’d never reach court and all of us taxpayers would save a large jail bill!
February 7th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
“I broke down when the SPCA showed me the video.”
Would that be the video that Te Ahu Mankelow shot on his cellphone perchance? If you’ll pardon the bad-taste animal pun, this guy is one sick puppy!
February 7th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
“Te Ahu Mankelow” As the whale would say “Silly name syndrome” Perhaps we should just pity this particular piece of shit.
February 7th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
# Put it away (547) Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
And as for the nutter at 12:33 PM, why is it that every time a vegan posts, they only succeed in demonstrating how important an adequate supply of iron, creatine, and protein is to proper brain functioning, with their random screed of copy-and-paste non sequiturs ? Go have a steak and come back when your head is working clearly.
A psychologist would have a field day with your ignorant and irrational diatribe against vegans. Most reputable nutritionalists (the kind with degrees and things who can read words with more than 2 syllables) now agree that a vegan diet is not lacking in iron, creatin or protein. Furthermore vegans live longer and are less likely to succumb to strokes, diabetes, obesity, cancer and other lifestyle diseases. You don’t believe me – well check out the position statements of both the American and Canadian Dietetic Associations. Perhaps you need to dislodge the cholesterol induced blood clot from your brain, then you may be able to think more clearly.
February 7th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Its disgusting and terrible to treat an animal like this. If only society would give half a thought to the 20,000 or so human beings that are destroyed in abortion clinics every year in this country.
February 7th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
So his lawyer half picked up on my suggested defence.
But what happened to the girls on party pills bit?
February 7th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
# LiberalismIsASin (154) Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Its disgusting and terrible to treat an animal like this. If only society would give half a thought to the 20,000 or so human beings that are destroyed in abortion clinics every year in this country.
Here we go again… Visit http://www.abolitionistapproach.com if you want to compare numbers.
February 7th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Jaime Raine,
Got a blogsite for you:
http://www.whoar.co.nz
But then again it is you whore isn’t it?
Take your propaganda and shove it where the global warming sun don’t shine
February 7th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Tom Ford (Grey Lynn)
01:48PM Wednesday, 03 Feb 2010
Are we talking all animals or just pets? If the new bill actually includes all animals, how will it alter the cruel treatment of the ones at the battery hen farms, factory pig farms, dairy cow farms, salmon farms, commercial fishing trawlers, and slaughterhouses?
Or are …we being selective as usual – finding it OK to brutally slaughter millions of animals we choose to eat but not cats or dogs? In some cultures it’s normal to eat dogs just as some cultures would not eat pigs or worship cows.
Jolly good question.
The day after this clowns court appearance my Granddaughter was walking their dog. Now she(the dog) is a nut case having lived in a house full of kids, but anyway, they wander down the main Rd in into Bethlehem town. and are returning via the main rd to a place where Higgins have started to chop out trees and stuff for another roundabout. Well the dog dives into the hedge on the side of the footpath and when it is pulled out by the lead she has a big possum in her mouth. Well the possum lived about 10 seconds but the dog wouldn’t let it go, pulling out its fur and all that.
The amusing bit is that all of a sudden there is screeching tyres from a hundred commuters on the main rd. (not a wide one but extremely busy), All stopping thinking the dog has a cat. Further screeching as they accelerated away when recognizing the possum.
One law for all or are dogs allowed to be selective when ordering their food?
February 7th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
JC asks:
Much as I feel sickened for those helpless kittens, this is the bigger question. But I guarantee the courts will punish him only for what he did and not take account of what he’s clearly capable of doing. Regardless of his punishment for this crime, he needs to be banned from animal ownership for a lifetime, subject to involuntary psychiatric incarceration until such time as he’s certified as safe to be released (if ever) and then monitored for the rest of his life.
Too complex, too restrictive and above all too expensive? Yes, but not nearly as expensive as the havoc he’ll wreak on at least three human victims before our “third strike” law forces us to pay for his upkeep for whatever remains of his life.
We’re so good at constructing cells (made out of shipping containers) at the bottom of the cliff, ignoring the damage done by someone like this on their way down.
February 7th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Vegans fart a lot,and loudly
February 7th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Making childish arguments, perhaps you should read a book called The Gas We Pass by Shinta Cho. Some farts smell bad, and some don’t. When you fart after eating meat, fish eggs or things like that, your farts smell really bad. When you fart after eating sweet potatoes or beans, however, they don’t smell very much at all. That’s why the farts of animals that eat meat smell so terrible.
Steve – care to address any of the facts instead of making unsubstantiated attacks? Here are a few more for you, hardly propaganda given the sources:
“”The slogan, ‘Milk – it does a body good’, sounds a little hollow these days. Cancer is most frequent where carnivorous habits prevail” – Scientific American, 1992.
“Much as we have awakened to the full economic and social costs of cigarettes, we will find we can no longer subsidise or ignore the costs of mass-producing cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep and fish to feed our growing population. These costs include hugely inefficient use of fresh water and land, heavy pollution from livestock feces, rising rates of heart disease and other degenerative illnesses and spreading destruction of our forests on which much of the planet’s life depends” – Time Magazine, 8 November 1999.
“All muscle that we eat, whether it flaps a wing or wiggles a fin – all that muscle is made up of is animal protein, cholesterol and fat, all of which are really quite unhealthy” – Caldwell B Esselstyn MD.
In 1993 the National Cancer Institute published the results of a study with women who had been treated for breast cancer. They told half the woman to continue with their typical American diet and had the other half change to a plant-based diet. After only 4 years nearly 40% of the women who stayed on their animal-based diet had recurrences of breast cancer. Not a single woman who changed to a plant-based diet had a recurrence of breast cancer.
Movies and history books glorify man slaying animals and make it seem like eating meat was a daily event, but eating animals was rare. Since the beginning some five million years ago humans have been, for all practical purposes, plant-eating vegetarians. We can eat an unlimited amount of plant foods with health-enhancing effect but we can only eat a tiny amount of animal foods before our arteries start to get clogged. The animals you eat leave a little bit of themselves in the form of cholesterol behind in your arteries every time you eat them. You are the one who has fallen for the meat industry’s propaganda that it is good for you.
February 8th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
i think you are pushing a fart uphill?? that would be good to watch.