Woman puts kitten in bin - it's ok it's not hurt!

"Christina Websell" wrote:
The CCTV footage was so clear that she has already been identified and
apparently is now being "questioned by the RSPCA"
That will be useful then :-(
The police are not interested.
I would not like to be her if she'd done this to Boyfriend - not that he
would ever allow a stranger to pet him, but even so, if he had and she'd
done this I would be knocking on her door. Maybe more than once. She would
truly regret the day she put my cat into a garbage bin.

You're braver than I am then. I wouldn't go anywhere near her house.
For all I know, she might hit me over the head with a rolling pin as
soon as she opened the door, then bury me in her back yard.

kraut wrote:
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:18:32 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

I was disgusted by this. Poor little thing was there for 16 hours before
someone heard it and rescued it!

Sharon
I hope she's caught and when she is, gets a prison sentence.

--
Adrian
The CCTV footage was so clear that she has already been identified and
apparently is now being "questioned by the RSPCA"
That will be useful then :-(
The police are not interested.
I would not like to be her if she'd done this to Boyfriend - not that he
would ever allow a stranger to pet him, but even so, if he had and she'd
done this I would be knocking on her door. Maybe more than once. She would
truly regret the day she put my cat into a garbage bin.
Tweed

Our local news said she was IDed and had to stay in her house and hire
a couple guards to protect her and her home!!



Perhaps she will learn what fear is now. That poor cat must have had
more than a fair share of fear. IMHO she should be punished. MLB

wrote:

You're right - in a country where declawing is illegal, you'd think
acts like this one would also be illegal. Well, we can hope!

Animal cruelty *is* a criminal offence here. We can only hope the
evidence is deemed sufficient to get her prosecuted and punished, sadly
though I suspect it will be a small fine rather than anything
meaningful.

Deb.
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http://www.scientific-art.com

"He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would;
He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield

ingold1234[at]yahoo[dot]com (Gandalf) wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:18:59 +0100, "Sharon & Smudgie" sharonand
wrote:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100823/...n-870a197.html

I was disgusted by this. Poor little thing was there for 16 hours before
someone heard it and rescued it!

Sharon

This story, with the VERY clear video, was just on the local evening
news in the USA, 8-24-10

I hope they catch that nasty woman. It just makes me see red! That poor
kitty must have been terrified!


Apparently she "thought it would be funny"!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100825...y-6323e80.html

What?? Words fail me!

Sharon

Really, the reaction to this case is way over the top. It was a very
bizarre thing to do, but the cat wasn't hurt; it apparently wasn't even
missed for hours (since it was normally away during the night and wasn't
seen by the owner during the day unless it came in for food) and I think
the vilification should be saved for people who abandon, starve and
torture cats, not for some silly fool who didn't even hurt one.

It's truly shocking that people are so willing to take the law into
their own hands like a bunch of vigilantes that this woman has to have
police protection!

--
Cheryl P.

MLB wrote in
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kraut wrote:
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:18:32 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

I was disgusted by this. Poor little thing was there for 16 hours
before someone heard it and rescued it!

Sharon
I hope she's caught and when she is, gets a prison sentence.

--
Adrian
The CCTV footage was so clear that she has already been identified
and apparently is now being "questioned by the RSPCA"
That will be useful then :-(
The police are not interested.
I would not like to be her if she'd done this to Boyfriend - not
that he would ever allow a stranger to pet him, but even so, if he
had and she'd done this I would be knocking on her door. Maybe more
than once. She would truly regret the day she put my cat into a
garbage bin. Tweed

Our local news said she was IDed and had to stay in her house and
hire a couple guards to protect her and her home!!



Perhaps she will learn what fear is now. That poor cat must have had
more than a fair share of fear. IMHO she should be punished. MLB




Yeah, the owner said she was covered in her own mess. Poor little thing.

"Sharon & Smudgie" wrote in
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ingold1234[at]yahoo[dot]com (Gandalf) wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:18:59 +0100, "Sharon & Smudgie" sharonand
wrote:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100823/...cctv-dumping-k
itten-870a197.html

I was disgusted by this. Poor little thing was there for 16 hours
before someone heard it and rescued it!

Sharon

This story, with the VERY clear video, was just on the local evening
news in the USA, 8-24-10

I hope they catch that nasty woman. It just makes me see red! That
poor kitty must have been terrified!


Apparently she "thought it would be funny"!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100825...nt-to-be-funny
-6323e80.html

What?? Words fail me!

Sharon






Now wait. I can understand a person having an odd idea of what is funny.
For example I think it would be funny to watch someone hit her in the
head repeatedly with a baseball bat. Not everyone would think that was
funny.

"Cheryl P." wrote in news:8dk960FipuU1
@mid.individual.net:

Really, the reaction to this case is way over the top. It was a very
bizarre thing to do, but the cat wasn't hurt; it apparently wasn't even
missed for hours (since it was normally away during the night and wasn't
seen by the owner during the day unless it came in for food) and I think
the vilification should be saved for people who abandon, starve and
torture cats, not for some silly fool who didn't even hurt one.

It's truly shocking that people are so willing to take the law into
their own hands like a bunch of vigilantes that this woman has to have
police protection!



No one has taken the law into their own hands first of all. Secondly the
cat was in a bin in hot summer weather for hours and she apparently crapped
on herself. I guess some people would consider that plenty hurt. If the
owner had not heard the cat it would be dead.

hopitus wrote:

On Aug 25, 4:21?am, "Cheryl P." wrote:

Really, the reaction to this case is way over the top.

My over-the-top reaction is due to one little factor. What I know
about English
refuse containers can be emblazoned on a pinhead, but that one looked
in the vid similar to our local recycling bins....when lid closed,
*airtight*. None of the other factors were enough to get me ballistic
but that one. Even the cat's fear and exhaustion were not permanent.
Asphyxiation is kinda permanent.

It looked a lot like the bins in my neighborhood, too, and those are
definitely not airtight. You can open it just by lifting the lid. It doesn't
snap or lock into place, which seems like the least you'd need to keep the
inside airtight. And after they've been picked up, tipped over and emptied
by the city's garbage trucks week after week, they've gotten banged around
a bit and the lid no longer fits perfectly onto the bin.

I'd be more worried about heat. If the bin was sitting in the sun, it
would get mighty hot in there. Also, as others have mentioned, the cat
would be in danger on pickup day. Luckily, it happened to be a Saturday
night when she did this, and I doubt pickup is done on Sunday.

Poor kitty! I'm glad she's doing better now.

Joyce

--
Speak your mind even if your voice cracks while you're saying it.

outsider wrote:

No one has taken the law into their own hands first of all. Secondly the
cat was in a bin in hot summer weather for hours and she apparently crapped
on herself. I guess some people would consider that plenty hurt. If the
owner had not heard the cat it would be dead.

That's the thing - this cat was lucky, her people heard her crying and
found her. It could have ended much worse for her. So even if the woman's
actions didn't end up with a dead cat, she certainly endangered the cat.
That itself is a crime.

I have to agree with Cheryl that death threats aren't appropriate, but I
certainly understand the anger.

Joyce

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Speak your mind even if your voice cracks while you're saying it.