GRACE: And live, Minnesota, a quiet neighborhood reeling when they learn a mild-mannered cat enthusiast actually skins and cooks his pet cat. When stunned cops ask him why, he says he wanted to try the cat with onions. Well, I can guarantee you one thing, there won`t be any pets where he`s going.</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: A Minnesota man is arrested a day after purchasing a pet cat. A cat he is now accused of trying to turn into dinner. The pet owner admitted to police that he wanted to try cooking it with some onions and eat it.</s>GRACE: I`m going out to Patrick Monro, friend of Cody Mann, who knows the family. Patrick, can you tell us what happened?</s>PATRICK MONRO, FRIEND OF MAN ACCUSED OF SKINNING HIS PET CAT: All I know is that I heard it on the radio when it happened. And then his father texted me, you know, something about the incident. So --</s>GRACE: So you basically know what the father told you and what you heard on the radio. Out to Dr. Panchali Dhar, joining me from New York. He actually skinned the cat and cooked it. That`s got to show premeditation because it`s very difficult to skin anything.</s>DR. PANCHALI DHAR, M.D., INTERNAL MEDICINE, AUTHOR OF "BEFORE THE SCALPEL": Of course. The cat was being tortured. I imagined the cat was -- let`s hope the cat was dead and then he skinned it. Let`s not hope that this cat was skinned alive. That would be even more vicious. But the fact is cats can carry certain diseases. And he could be infected. This cat, depending on the conditions the cat was raised in, and those diseases can be acquired by humans. Tape worms, toxoplasmosis, of those sorts. So I wouldn`t say it`s safe to eat a cat.
Accused of; Man Accused of Skinning, Baking His Cat with Onions