THIS is the moment a twisted pet owner tortured his hamster by feeding it cannabis and Tizer which was laced with the Class-A hallucinogenic powder LSD.
Sick 22-year-old Corey Lee Destrow was high on drugs when he and Nchinmunya Ntembe, also 22, gave the pet, Mr Chow, the substances.
Destrow had been told by chair of the bench Philip Clayton how the public demanded people like him were locked up "as a deterrent to others" at Lancaster Magistrates Court.
Mr Clayton said: "You were a man of previous good character and you show genuine remorse.
"However when the bench looked properly regarding the definition of 'torture', we feel that definition is unfortunately what was going on."
After appealing his eight-week sentence, his sentence has been reduced to 12 months’ community service, with 80 hours’ unpaid work.
Initially he was banned from having pets for 10 years, but this has been reduced to two years.
Ntembe was jailed for four months after admitting five offences under the Animal Welfare Act.
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His charges included causing unnecessary suffering to dogs Faith and Zeus by failing to see to their injuries.
He was also disqualified from keeping animals for eight years.
The video showed the pair laughing, with them heard saying: “We are going to kill it” and "it is going nuts."
Lancashire Police found the hamster in its cage inside a cupboard during a raid on the flat in May last year.
The pet owner was investigated after police officers found the hamster in its cage inside a cupboard at a house in Heysham.
Police also found a starving dog with a misshapen face at the squalid property.
The RSPCA interviewed Destrow and he initially denied giving the pet the drugs.
Destrow was staying with his hamster at the home of a friend at the time.
John Batty said this was “an unusual case” and Destrow was “extremely embarrassed”.
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