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 😉 .
Absolutely disgusting, the despicable creature, what on earth did she expect leaving a pizza that would smell strongly of cheese where the cat would be tempted to take it. As for the “punishment” cruel beyond belief and I’m worried what else she does to the cat as punishment for what she perceives as bad behaviour but which is in fact normal cat behaviour, she seems to be such an ignorant, greedy, boozing excuse for a woman that I would put nothing past her. I can’t believe she got off with it, no doubt she’ll be on FB again to get some more attention.
An example of why some people should never ever be allowed to have a cat.
Losing her temper with an innocent animal was despicable, the RSPCA should have taken the cat away while it was being investigated. Was the poor cat hungry? Did they have a vet check him to see if he was in good health?
What will she do to the poor creature next? I know what I’d like to do to her with her next pizza, the box it came in and all!
Things like this make me livid on behalf of the many misunderstood cats worldwide, who if they don’t behave like humans are punished.
I know a lot of people who have lost faith in the RSPCA and no wonder!
The RSPCA seem to have a problem with consistency because decisions are made by individual inspectors at the scene of the “crime” and it seems they are not trained sufficiently precisely. Just a guess.
Also, we may not have the full story. As you say FB can mislead sometimes.
Dee, it didn’t occur to me that the action might not have happened but you are correct. The woman could have just been trying to get a reaction. Quite possible that.
I too have lost faith somewhat in the RSPCA. They have made some bad decisions recently. I was impressed with the international reaction which got a result.
I wish an RSPCA rep would come onboard here.
What I read on the web about them and what I read in actual cases seem conflicting.
I know that we are in different worlds; but, a confessed cat abuser here would be made miserable and would, probably, go down. The fines, alone, from AC having gone to the courts, would be devastating.
I have a hard time understanding why these crimes aren’t reported to law enforcement, even if they don’t take action themselves.