Austin man accused of drowning girlfriend’s cat

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin police discovered a dead cat during a welfare check at a home in south Austin Saturday. Jonathan Wong, 28, faces a cruelty to non-livestock animal charge.
Officers went to the home on the 9300 block of S. 1st Street Saturday at 7:03 a.m. after a woman asked them to conduct a welfare check on her boyfriend who was feeling “suicidal” and had also harmed her cat the previous night, according to an affidavit.
Wong told the officer he was playing with one of t