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Our wife hates our cat with a passion, but at the most she complains about it and conveniently “forgets” to close the door so it will run away. A man in Muncie, Indiana took his pet hatred to a whole new level — he has been arrested after he allegedly forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab it. Not surprisingly, there was alcohol involved.

An affidavit filed Thursday in Delaware County alleges Collins told his 11-year-old son and daughter he wanted them to “learn how to kill” and ordered them to kill the family’s pet cat.

The siblings told police their father was drunk when they were dropped off for a visit at his Muncie residence, according to the affidavit. They said he is “a different person” when he’s drunk.

Brown said that when Collins was in the bathroom, the boy took the knife his father had given him to kill the cat and hid the animal under a sofa bed. The boy then ran to the kitchen and put ketchup on the knife to make it look as if the cat had been killed.

When Collins realized the cat was not dead, Brown said, he forced his daughter to hold the knife and then held her hand tightly as he drove the knife into the animal. The girl said he held her hand so hard that her hand ached, an injury that led to the battery charge.