Hong Kong - Two Hong Kong men aged 19 and 24 were Thursday facing fines or jail terms after admitting chasing a cat and beating it to death.
Tse Wing-lai, 24, and Leung Siu-tung, 19, were among a group of 10 teenagers and young men arrested after being seen beating the cat with sticks and poles.
Residents in the city's Siu Sai Wan district called police after witnessing the killing in March and finding the black and white female cat dead in a drain afterwards.
At a court hearing in Hong Kong's Eastern Court Wednesday, Tse and Leung admitted a joint charge of cruelty to an animal. They will be sentenced on May 14.
The Hong Kong government last year toughened laws against cruelty to animals, making the offence punishable with a jail term of up to three years and a fine of up to around 25,000 US dollars.
Pet ownership has boomed in the former British colony in the past decade with more couples keeping cats and dogs as the city's birth rate declines to an all-time low.
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