Oak Grove, OR – A 21-year-old Oregon woman was arrested in what authorities are describing as a shocking, unorthodox experiment which involved a neighbor’s cat.
While responding to a report of a dead animal, police took Ashley Fawn Guldager into custody from a residence on Southeast Sunnyside Road. The young woman had been down on her luck, single and unemployed, and living in a friend’s home on their couch for about a month.
Inside the bathroom of the residence investigators discovered a dead, partially shaven feline strapped to a makeshift operating table with jumper cables and flanked by a wet sponge, a plastic razor, scissors, and a 12-inch straight-edge kitchen knife .
According to the cat’s owner, Lisa-Marie Armstrong, Mama Kitty had gone missing three days prior. Horribly, Armstrong made the gruesome discovery inside her neighbor’s home and contacted authorities.
Guldager was charged with first-degree theft and aggravated animal abuse for allegedly strangling her neighbor’s cat and then tampered with the body in a Franken-kitty experiment taken from the likes of a Tim Burton movie or Mary Shelley novel. The necropsy on the 9-year-old cat, conducted by the Oregon Humane Society’s law enforcement division, determined the animal had died from asphyxiation .
Suspected on maliciously harming and attempting to operate on the animal, Guldager was booked into Clackamas County Jail on $100,000 bail. Per Oregon State statue 167.322, aggravated animal abuse in the first degree is levied against a person if they are accused of maliciously killing an animal or intentionally or knowingly torturing an animal. Aggravated animal abuse in the first degree is a Class C felony.
Initially no motive was disclosed to police. However, in an emotional near incoherent interview with Fox 12 , the incarcerated young woman claimed a demonic possession was to blame for the shocking death of the feline . Amidst her rambling, the girl detailed how the experience did not feel like her doing it, but that of a satanic force using her.
The disturbed young woman has been referred for a mental health evaluation.