Some of the comments here, unreal. Yes, it may ‘only’ be a cat and as is pretty well documented on stw cats aren’t the most favoured of creatures. But the majority are pets, loved by their owners, maybe part of a household that has kids. For all the ones who’ve seen fit to spout unpleasantness on here (is it because the cat was ultimately ok, doesn’t really ‘matter’ so much? Or is it simply internet anonymity, write something gratuitously offensive because you can?) what if that happened to a cat belonging to someone you are close to? My friends cat died after being poisoned (a spate of them in the area) and having a pet killed, maimed or abused is actually really distressing for the owners/families involved and all because some cretin(s) fancied a ‘laugh’.
For those that think that “it’s only a cat, it doesn’t matter”, yes, there are worse things happening in the world every day but does it really mean that it doesn’t matter? For every duck or swan that gets shot with a crossbow, horse that gets cut, every act of gratuitous, wanton cruelty we should simply brush it aside as unimportant? I don’t wanna see or read about stuff like this but I shouldn’t ignore it either. I find it hard to comprehend why people do stuff like this, hard to comprehend why people appear to condone stuff like this, I also find it hard to comprehend the logic of animal rights nutters who get themselves foaming at the mouth over stuff like this but at least in their own histrionic way they’re standing up for decent behaviour. Surely it’s just down to respect for other living creatures and each other? Don’t go chucking defenceless moggies about and don’t go trolling posts about it on web forums. Yeah, I sound like a hippy but I don’t give two F***s. Life would be better if we all gave that bit more of a toss for who and what’s around us. If any of you lot have got a F***ing problem with that I’ll see you outside 😉