When you watch the surveillance video you can see the woman sneak up to the veterinary hospital in her car and quickly walk up to the outside of the hospital and dump the cats before hastily returning to her vehicle. The cats are a mother cat and three kittens, estimated at 10 weeks-of-age.
Of course it was done at night when there was a much better chance of not being spotted. It was done furtively and secretly. The whole event smacks of guilt and cowardess. This woman must have been too ashamed to take her unwanted cats to a shelter and honestly explain what went wrong because something must have gone wrong if you have cats that you want to get rid of.
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I mention that she should have gone to a shelter because taking these unwanted cats to a veterinary hospital was careless and ignorant.
The manager of the hospital explains:
“But we can’t bring unknown animals into the hospital,” Posey said. “It could be feral, attack the staff, carry diseases.”
Posey explains that if people are intent in abandoning their cats they should do it correctly and contact the Humane Society of Greater Dayton and Animal Resource Center of Montgomery County (this abandonment took place at Miamisburg).
As it happens, the hospital staff contacted animal control and they picked up the cats. They’ll be held at the Animal Resource Center where they will hopefully be adopted.
The cowardly woman (sorry to be so frank about her behaviour) is a white and she drove a Chevrolet Suburban or an older SUV.
She committed a criminal act. “Abandonment is a criminal violation”, says the director, Mark Kumpf, of the animal shelter.
I agree, it’s not natural, but some vets do take them in temporarily. A lot depends on how much space they have.
I remember one time – it was the evening of 9/11 in a small town an hour from NYC. I was visiting friends in their home. A strange dog came in outside. It looked friendly, but alone and it had a collar, but nothing on it. We didn’t really know what to do, a friend didn’t know any neighbors with a dog. She went to ask around. I wondered if the dog could’ve belonged to someone who worked in the World Trade Center and didn’t come home. A lot of people there commuted with NYC. None of us was in a position to take a strange large dog home, we’ve had cats. There was a 24-hour vet hospital in the walking distance, so my friend went there to talk to them, and they said they’ll take the dog and see if they can find an owner.
I do agree about the woman’s behavior.
I don’t think it’s natural either, but I’ve found that people have very weird ideas about what goes on at a vet’s office or an animal hospital. The sneaky way she just dumped those cats shows me how ignorant that woman is. She was obviously more concerned about what people thought of her than what was best for the animals, and that didn’t matter anyway because she was caught on camera. I hope those cats find good homes.
That’s a good point Serbella which I overlooked. Although I don’t think it is natural to abandon cats at the vets. Perhaps if she was trying to avoid euthanasia you could argue her behavior is all the more disreputable because she knows the possible outcome of her actions.
Maybe this woman thought if she abandoned the cats outside a vet hospital they wouldn’t be euthanized. I’m not making excuses for her. That was a really dumb thing to do, but it’s obvious she didn’t care about the cats in the first place.
Well that’s a nice story. Your vet must be good. She genuinely cares for animals it seems.
My two furry babies were found behind my vets office in a box. She brought them in to socialize the Sphynx she had rescued. We adopted all three. It never occurred to me until this very moment that they might have had a dreadful fate. I will speak to my vet, their grandmama, and see if she would have turned away kittens left behind her office and her opinion.