Man stuffed cat in bong 'to calm it down'

OMAHA, Nebraska - A Nebraska man says he stuffed his girlfriend's cat into a makeshift marijuana pipe because he was trying to calm the cat down and it seemed to work previously.

Acea Schomaker said Tuesday that he never intended to hurt the cat, Shadow.

He says he didn't want to discipline the cat by swatting or squirting water at it, and didn't want to take it to an animal shelter because he feared it would be euthanized.

Schomaker says he put the cat in the pipe three times over the last week and it made the cat "act like a stoned person."

He says he knows now that what he did was wrong.

The unemployed 20-year-old and his girlfriend were each ticketed for misdemeanor animal cruelty.

-AP