POLLY WANTS A KNIFE IN THE GUT INSTEAD OF A CRACKER

EVERETT, Washington – An Everett man was sentenced to six months in jail for the stabbing death of his former girlfriend’s parrot. Richard J. Atkinson, 63, pleaded guilty last month in Snohomish County Superior Court to first-degree animal cruelty and second-degree domestic-violence malicious mischief. He’s been held at the Snohomish County Jail since the attack. Police alleged that Atkinson was alone at the former couple’s Everett home when he killed the bird with a serving fork and then trashed the house.