Cat and two of her kittens suffocate after being abandoned outside Hong Kong shelter
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 24 September, 2015, 7:02am
UPDATED : Thursday, 24 September, 2015, 7:02am
Danny Mok
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Cat and two of her kittens suffocate after being abandoned outside Hong Kong shelter
A cat concern group has called the police after a cat and four of her kittens were abandoned in a bag outside its shelter in To Kwa Wan.
The mother and two kittens had suffocated, while one male and one female kitten were still alive. They were left outside the shelter of Cats Society on Chi Kiang Street at about noon on
Wednesday. Signs showed that the cat mother had been breastfeeding her kittens until she died.
The surviving kittens, aged about two months, were stable after treatment and later returned to the shelter.
A member of the society, Ms Lau, said it was not the first time they had had to call the police after coming across similar cases.
“The people [who abandoned the cats outside the shelter] are really out of their minds. How could they put the cats in the bag and under the sun like this?” said Lau.
“To abandon them is already very bad but they put them in the sealed bags. This is unacceptable.”
The group urged the public not to treat animals’ lives as something inferior, and hoped the police would locate the people involved in this case soon.
It also reminded the public to contact them before handing in cats, which can only be accommodated under certain conditions.
