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And I'm a pet owner...
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And I'm a pet owner...
Edit. You're not even worth the effort.
Why has the so called pet owner got CCTV any way?
He wanted to catalogue goings on in his street, he had a feline someone had bin naughty.
There is no comparison between a child and a pet in any respect whatsoever.
Dear oh dear, internet hostility, mob rule and indignation all in one thread...............
You left out the quantum mechanics.
Dear oh dear, internet hostility, mob rule and indignation all in one thread...............
What she did was wrong but this "story" has gone waaaayyyyy too far! Cat was un-harmed unlike all the random victims of voilence, stabbings, scams and what-not that happens all the time. Get real! Can you imagine a lynch-mob everytime there'd been a robbery? Or whenever someone got slapped around the head in a pub?
Let it go, it's the owner of the cat and the newspapers out to get money, nowt else.
P.S. I love cats and have two myself, just before someone calls me cat-hater.
Not that I have anything against the RSPCA prosecuting in cases of animal cruelty, it's just that they never seem to be interested in the cruelty that goes on, on a massive scale, in factory farming...
Not read the thread just the title and i have seen the video on the news.
If i see her doing that i would punch her in the mouth, sorry but just being honest, you can all slate me i don't care. (and i don't hit women)
I love animals and you never ever do that, then say on telly that it was a mistake. No it wasn't a mistake you intended to lure that cat to you then grab it round the back and shove it in the bin, you just didn't expect to get caught out.
Well, the RSPCA have jumped in and are 'investigating' - another wonderful opportunity for them to find a possible offence, prosecute her, get themselves some publicity and no doubt some more well meaning old dears will leave them money in their wills
Not that I have anything against the RSPCA prosecuting in cases of animal cruelty, it's just that they never seem to be interested in the cruelty that goes on, on a massive scale, in factory farming...
Well, the RSPCA have jumped in and are 'investigating' - another wonderful opportunity for them to find a possible offence, prosecute her, get themselves some publicity and no doubt some more well meaning old dears will leave them money in their wills
Not that I have anything against the RSPCA prosecuting in cases of animal cruelty, it's just that they never seem to be interested in the cruelty that goes on, on a massive scale, in factory farming...
Having watched the video again you're right - there was pretty clear intent there. You could see her looking all around before she did it then hurrying off once she had done it.
About these death threats the media are so hung up on. What an absolute crock of ***** - not one of those threats will be serious. Something typed by an unknown person on a facebook group is not a valid death threat - but hey, it sells papers to say it is, right?
A teenager was ordered to be detained yesterday for posting death threats on Facebook.
Keeley Houghton, 18, said on her Facebook profile that she would kill Emily Moore, 18, whom she had bullied for four years since they were at school together. Houghton was sentenced to three months in a young offender institution after pleading guilty to harassment at Worcester Crown Court.
On July 12 this year Houghton wrote: Keeley is going to murder the bitch. She is an actress. What a f***ing liberty. Emily F***head Moore.
I think those defending her would be a little less forgiving if it was a 16 yr old chav who had dumped the cat in the bin.
Just sayin'....
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I do wonder if there would have been the same level of media attention if the dopey woman put the cat in the bin when Parliament had been in session.
Well, the RSPCA have jumped in and are 'investigating' - another wonderful opportunity for them to find a possible offence, prosecute her, get themselves some publicity and no doubt some more well meaning old dears will leave them money in their wills
Not that I have anything against the RSPCA prosecuting in cases of animal cruelty, it's just that they never seem to be interested in the cruelty that goes on, on a massive scale, in factory farming...
You are correct in that the RSPCA appear to have tagged onto the tail end of what they see as massive money making publicity.
....................What exactly has the cat suffered?
It was put in a bin? Lots of cats are put into containers for long period of time, indeed, RSPCA cardboard cat boxes are much smaller and have no light.
Wheelie bins are not airtight. So the cat was in no danger of suffocating..........................
The cat carriers are far more breathable than a wheelie bin. They do not retain heat like a wheelie bin. They are kept in carriers for short spells only, never anywhere near 15 hours.
The cat may not have been in dangers of suffocation but it will have been severely traumatised not to mention the effect on the owners when they could find their much loved family pet.
Cat was in wheelie bin overnight. It was not a warm night.
Taking cat to vet is usually done in daytime in the car or by bus. Both means of transport get very hot, especially for cat in box.
Did you notice the cars whizzing past on the video? About 40 -45 mph? Maybe cat was safer in the bin than roaming that road.
Cat is hardly likely to be traumatised from being in the bin. Lots of nice smells. Lots of cats seem to live in and around bins these days. And cats are notorious for crawling into enclosed spaces and causing panic for their owners when they don't come out immediately.
Seriously, had this woman put down glue traps, thrown the cat off a balcony or done something equally damaging I doubt if the net would have taken more than fleeting notice. This woman has been pilloried because she isn't young, waif like and pretty.
As I already said, they are only in the carriers for a very short space of time. My vet is 10 minutes away, not in the outer hebrides.
So you're saying she deliberately put the cat in the bin to save it from being run over. I'm pretty sure that couldn't have been further from her mind. I'd also suggest the cars were going no more than 30mph as it's a residential street.
Being trapped in a bin for 15 hours will certainly traumatise a cat. Utterly ridiculous to claim that it won't because of "nice smells".
No, she's being pilloried because she committed an act of cruelty towards someone's pet. Something you obviously have an issue with, maybe you don't think peoples' pets are important? :shrug:
Then you are lucky. Still no proof cat suffered in the bin though, just as cats who crawl into other small spaces of their own volition don't.
Even if they were doing 30 a collision of a tyre with cat would do more harm than a night in the bin.
What do you base this unsubstantiated claim of trauma to the cat on? Cats are regularly trapped or caged for lots of reasons. Should they all end up on therapy?
What she has done is minor in the scheme of things. And yet she has made headline news around the world. Do you really think that a cat spending a few hours in a bin when its owners were quite happy to leave it to wander around in the traffic is worth wrecking a woman's life for?
There is no justification for putting a cat in a wheelie bin.
There is no justification for putting a cat in a wheelie bin.
When Roaul Moat went on his shooting spree the resultant thread on TP reached 140 posts, some daft old bat sticks a cat in a bin - 152 (153 incl this one) posts and counting...
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Ah 2 reasons for this IMO
1) In the UK we are pet crazy, cats more than dogs for some reason (so much for man's best friend!)
2) Parliament was in session so the media replaced the story with other "news" once it was over rather than trying to milk it for every possible angle.