What affects us affects cats
There is no doubt in my mind that the scourge of the cat ownership world is unplanned kittens. However, sometimes they are planned by which I mean the owner allows a female cat to become pregnant and have kittens because they think a “mother” means that experience to feel whole and happy 😢. Wrong. …
Cleveland, Ohio: An anonymous woman was filmed on security cameras dumping young cats near trash containers outside an animal hospital. It looks like one of those callous cases of cat abuse and irresponsible cat ownership but the woman has an excuse and it is quite a good one. The woman contacted 19 News to …
Chesterfield, Virginia, USA: In highlighting the scale of cat abandonment in the county of Chesterfield, Va, Lynne Layton, the director of Smitty’s Cat Rescue Shelter, told 8News that people abandon healthy cats at her shelter regularly but they dump and run. In general abandoning cats at shelters and on highways is a daily occurence. …
I think this video is interesting partly because it’s quite unusual. It’s unusual to see the actual act of abandonment of cats in this case at an animal shelter because the intention of the culprits is to avoid being seen! You can see how surreptitiously this couple act. The woman quickly runs away from …
This strange, sad picture of many cats in a large, semi-transparent storage container brings home the callous cruelty of dumping domestic cats on the roadside. It happens in various ways. It might be a cardboard box or a several cat carriers. Sometimes the ‘dumper’ stuffs several cats into a small carrier and leaves the …
These are personal accounts by two unrelated women both of whom have seen kittens thrown from moving vehicles during kitten season in Michigan state, USA. Their first hand experiences recounted in their own words paint a clear but horrific picture of callousness and wanton insensitivity towards vulnerable animals. Marielle Wilson Marielle said she was …
Update May 29, 2017 petition to save the cats here. The following is taking place in Mauldin, South Carolina where a colony of feral cats, many of whom have undergone TNR, is in danger of being trapped and “disposed of.” Unfortunately, Mauldin doesn’t have a TNR program currently in place. I’m cheating a bit …
The following is a ‘cold case’ from May 2016 I’ve been asked to renew interest in. This investigation into an animal cruelty situation was the first story I ever covered on cat dumping in North Carolina. Rockingham County police are still looking for the person who dumped pet carriers filled with decomposing cats in …
