A 22 year-old-woman living in Swansea, South Wales, was incensed when her cat ate some of her £15 pizza. She’d been looking forward to her pizza all day. She was fuming and raging so much that in a fit of temper she placed her cat in a cat carrier and placed the carrier in her bath so that the water came up to knee height for her cat.
This is an example of a person punishing her cat for something she did wrong: leaving her pizza out for her cat to find. It was foreseeable that her cat would be attracted to it. The cat was behaving naturally. The women is ignorant and arrogant enough to brazenly post her misdeed on social media.
She posted a photo of this with her explanation on Facebook and guess what? There was outrage and a petition which was started by Americans collected 3,000 signatures. The petition requested the involvement of the authorities to investigate what can only be described as cat abuse
The RSPCA investigated and took no further action. They must have gone around to the woman’s house having found the location through her computer’s IP address.
There were death threats against the lady! That is going too far obviously but it does show the strength of feeling against animal abuse of any kind and this is a good thing.
I am impressed that animal lovers have the opportunity to express their passion and to take action against animal abusers which works. Things actually happen.
This is one of the strengths of Facebook. Personally I am not a great fan of FB but it can work wonders.
It is impressive to see how internet discussions can be translated to almost immediate action on the ground.
Cat abusers should beware. There are passionate cat lovers about. I’d expect this story to be a warning to other people to avoid showing off their abusive behavior.
The pictures are courtesy Daily Mail and redacted by them. I presume they blocked out the swear words. This is also interesting because Facebook accepted the words while the Daily Mail thinks them too rude for their website 😉 .
I can only assume that the RSPCA deemed that there wasn’t enough evidence to act. A cat can’t, actually, be seen in that carrier.
People post the craziest things on FB, and this action may or may not have actually happened. However, she made a confession and that would have, likely, been good enough here.
I never thought that I would ever have much positive to say about our animal control here but, if their presence were in the UK, I’m certain that they would have gotten a court order to remove the cat within a very short time of finding out about this person’s admission of abuse.
I was one of those who as well that posted on that thread but I also told people to stop posting her home address and one poster told me they needed to do that so the RSPCA could locate her and I replied that they only needed a screenshot of her post and they can find her via her PC address,I’m not surprised though the RSPCA didnt take further action because of a recent case where a dog had been neglected horribly and again they did nothing and that same dog was killed by it’s owner,there are many AR Organizations in the UK and with their help with the media and the petition going around which I too signed maybe something can actually be done to have her charged but I fear it will be just blowing in the wind!
That is a neat point, Alan. They have got cat anatomy wrong. I am guessing they mean the hock (I think that is the ankle in human parlance) or the first major joint which is in a similar position (off the ground) to our knee.
It probably wasn’t quite bad enough and I suspect the woman was distraught at all the attention she had gathered and convinced the RSPCA inspector that she wouldn’t do it again.
I am hoping that when she said the water was knee high she doesn’t actually know where a cat’s knees are. That would be neck high.
It’s difficult to believe the R.S.P.C.A took no action, this is animal cruelty, unless of course the box was empty, we can’t actually see a cat inside. But if not surely they should have taken the cat away, that is not normal behavior. Why leave the Pizza where the cat could eat it anyway? I could easily have put some blocked out words in here myself, but I don’t want to lower myself to her level.