A similar thing happened in Halifax a few years back.
Some students got a hold of a cat, shaved all the fur off, set it on fire and tossed it out a high rise apartment.
When they were confronted, they expressed no remorse.
They were eventually kicked out of the university.
It really scares me that there are people out there who have no regard for life at all.
I firmly believe that anyone who would do that to an animal is capable of doing it to a person.