NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: This is a news item which has been circulating in the UK for a while and it is developing hence this report. I’m told that there are now 84 cases of domestic cats being shaved illegally. I’m referring to indoor/outdoor cats who are perhaps outdoors at night and somebody, a criminal or …
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I’m referring to the UK but this argument may well apply to many other countries. Depending on the circumstances, in the UK, it is better for the prosecuting authorities to charge a person with criminal damage and not animal cruelty if that person or persons have been charged with serious animal cruelty offences. The simple …
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Gary Samuel and his assistant/lover Rochelle McEwan, together, allowed eight cats and 24 dogs to starve in a dark dungeon underneath their veterinary clinic. When the police entered the establishment Samuel was sitting on a bed with a laptop on his knees. He was wearing headphones. He pointed to the trap door under a carpet …
This has all the hallmarks of a person or persons wishing to lure free-roaming cats into the middle of the road with the intention of causing the cats to be run over by a vehicle.
30th Sept. 2017: The UK government announced that animal abusers could be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison for the most serious forms of animal abuse. The plan was unveiled by the Environment Secretary Michael Gove. They’ve been thinking about this for a while. It is believed that the current law leaves …
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This caught my eye because I believe it is unusual for a person to be given a lifetime ban from keeping animals. Normally sentences handed down by judges in criminal trials concerning animal abuse are relatively light or at least they are to animal advocates. The woman’s name is Catherine Allsagar. She is 37 years …
As an animal advocate I have always believed that animal abusers are insufficiently punished when convicted of a crime. It isn’t just that the standard prison sentences are too short, it is also that many animal abusers are not sent to prison at all, or perhaps they are fined or simply not prosecuted at all. …
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Someone else called Franky Mills ‘scum’ but they are right. He is that. Worse than that actually. He has seriously hurt cats and the lives of the families with whom the cats lived. The cats he attacked are family members. We know that. Update the next day — I have read that Franky Mills drove …
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‘Humans are more important than cats so I don’t care.’ The words of Norman Wilson, 48, who was jealous of the love the family cats received from his disabled wife so he beat a very young cat, Tiny Tim, to death. But it does not stop there. Ten other family cats have died in mysterious …
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Yes, believe it or not an animal rights campaigner has put his estranged wife’s cat into a tumble dryer just to spite her and upset her. His 30 year marriage ended and the life of the family cat almost ended as well after he put his wife’s cat in the tumble dryer. Preston magistrates heard …
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A Bournemouth vet is struck off for the “chronic and prolonged neglect” of her two pet dogs. Source: Bournemouth vet struck off over ‘prolonged neglect’ of two pet dogs – BBC News Are all vets concerned about animal welfare? Crazy question? No. Vets are the general public. Most veterinarians will be sensitive to animal welfare. …
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This has undertones of the Kristen Lindsey story. You remember the vet to shot a cat with a bow and arrow and then boasted about it on Facebook. Well this is a story from Dundee in Scotland and it concerns two male teenagers who posted photographs of themselves seriously abusing a young cat on Snapchat. …
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The so called “cat ripper” operates in Croydon, London. This is south-east London. We are now seeing the same sort of killings and mutilations of cats in other parts of London specifically Richmond, Streatham and in the North at Finchley and Tottenham Hale. It is particularly worrying for me because I live about 4 miles …
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For about seven years it appears that a serial cat killer has been going about his business with a machete in south-east London, UK. Only now have people realised that the reports of butchered, missing and injured cats are probably linked. Despite that, the local police force have decided that the most recent victim of …
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The British government is dragging its feet over the banning of wild animals in zoos despite the generally held international view that the British public are animal lovers. We voted this government into power but they appear not to be carrying out the views of the electorate when it comes to zoo animals. The British …
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