Guest guest Posted June 30, 2003 Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 This message was forwarded to you from Straits Times Interactive (http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg) by yitzeling Six kittens dead, abuse suspected by Leong Pik Yin SIX kittens barely two months old have been found dead in Ayer Rajah Industrial Estate. Cat lover Baxter Thong, 36, said he discovered their bloodied, decomposing bodies on Friday while making his usual round at lunchtime to feed a family of stray cats near his workplace. Mr Thong alerted the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). 'I was furious,' said Mr Thong, a technical service coordinator, who believes the animals were tortured and deliberately killed. 'The kittens were so young, they couldn't even run fast.' SPCA executive officer Deirdre Moss said the society found puncture marks on four of the dead kittens. But it did not do a post-mortem. Some of the bodies had already decomposed to the point where they had maggots crawling on them. 'Without witnesses, we can't do much and it remains unknown if it was a case of abuse. But it is suspect,' said Ms Moss. The SPCA, she said, had received no report in the past year from anyone who had seen cats being abused. The maximum penalty for animal abuse is a fine of $10,000 and a year's jail. The SPCA asked Mr Thong to make a police report, but he fears that if he does, the authorities might put down the surviving cats in this family. There are about 80,000 stray cats here and culling had been stepped up recently. IP Address:210.187.137.99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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