Fla. 'cat-snatchers' get community service

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Maybe Mr. Kibbles will know better the next time he's looking for a litter box.

Christopher Cortes, 33, and wife, Iris Zuckerman, 33, were sentenced Thursday to 100 hours and 50 hours of community service, respectively, for snatching the black cat from their neighbor's home and leaving him in the Everglades in February 2005.

Police said Cortes was upset the cat used the back of his new pickup truck as a litter box.

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"That's what they get for taking an innocent cat," said the cat's owner, 12-year-old Maggie Leonard.

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