Child describes pet cat's death  March 25, 2005  A 10-year-old
Sydney girl has told of how she watched a man beat her cat until
it died.  But a man, believed to be the girl's neighbour, said
he only wanted to scare the animal.  It was the third attack on
a cat in Sydney in as many months.  Police were called to a
house at St Clair, in Sydney's west, about 7.45pm (AEDT)
yesterday, and found the body of a cat in the yard of a 55-year-
old man's house.  The cat, Shadow, belonged to a young
neighbour, Lisa Dews.  Police seized a wooden walking stick from
the man's house, and RSPCA officers took the animal's body for a
post-mortem examination.  Detectives were to interview the man
later today.  Lisa told reporters she saw a man strike her pet.
"He kept hitting her until she fell down off the fence and when
she fell down it was like he was smashing her on the neck," she
said.  Lisa's mother, Eva Dews, said the beating was
unnecessary.  "You just shoo it away, you don't have to kill
it," she said.  A man believed to