Here's the newspaper article. Mazurek can't understand WHY she is to have no pets! DUH!!!

Woman Who Killed Cat Going To Jail
February 4, 2004
By KATIE MELONE, Courant Staff Writer

NEW BRITAIN -- Jill Mazurek accepts that she is going to prison for four months as punishment for killing her roommate's cat in February 2002.

Yes, she agrees it was wrong for her and two co-defendants to savagely beat Adonis and repeatedly toss the battered cat into Silver Lake in Berlin until it died.

What she cannot accept is the cat owner's request that Mazurek be barred from living with pets once she leaves prison.

In a telephone interview on Tuesday a day after accepting a plea agreement to end the animal cruelty case against her, Mazurek said she does not think it would be fair for a judge to order the 20-year-old Newington women not to keep any pets.

"I know what I did was wrong and I know there is punishment for what I did," Mazurek said Tuesday. "I am ready to serve jail time, but taking away my pets is a violation of my rights because I've never done anything wrong to any other animal."

The no-pets suggestion by Adonis' distraught owner, Catherine "Cat" Towle, was read by a court advocate on Towle's behalf in New Britain Superior Court on Monday.

Mazurek - who has pet cats, guinea pigs and dogs - said a "no pets" condition of probation would be cruel.

"It was an isolated incident," she said of Adonis' death.