Cruelty Caught on Tape

That’s terrible. This is beyond a prank. The cat could have easily died.

That is definitely Not a prank.

That is just one sick cat-hater.

And I agree with Chuck for the penalty.

This is NOT A PRANK!!! I hope there’s a special corner of hell for this woman. I am not an animal fanatic. I eat meat, but I also love my cats and I would be prone to violence if someone did this to one of my babies. I’m disappointed you posted this as if it was a fun, jaunty silly video. It’s awful!

I hope someone finds that lady and kicks her in the fucking teeth.

This woman definitely needs to see the inside of a jail cell for quite some time. I hope they find her and charge her with animal cruelty

This has apparently appeared on the major television news channels in the UK now. I suspect this vile creature is shaking in its boots for the retaliation which will likely be coming forthwith.

I hope somebody in the neighborhood recognizes her.

You’re right. How people can be worse than cats I’ll never know but they seem to do it most days.

I don’t wish harm on this woman, but I also don’t want to see any more cats get hurt. She needs to be made to understand that what she did was cruel, and if necessary, to understand why cruelty is wrong. I understand these things, so there’s no reason that she can’t learn the same. Of course, in her case, said learning may involve being trapped in a dark, smelly place.

@Steohawk, she knew exactly what she was doing and that it was wrong. Watch the video again; she looks around a couple of times to make sure nobody was watching.

How awful. It’s just sad that some people treat animals like that. Especially since the cat just wanted to be petted.

@jenjen It was a private CC camera the homeowners set up because of drivers hitting their car and driving away.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3107733/Cruel-woman-dumps-ca t-in-bin.html

Wow, all these angry comments and not a single one complaining that this video isn’t “neat”. This women is going to have a mob on her back, and she’ll probably end up in police custody to prevent her from being lynched.

poor kitty. Hopefully there will be follow up or someone has recognized the woman and reported her. If not, she needs to be caught soon!

I don’t know how people do these kind of things. The cat wasn’t hurting her in any way. It was letting her pet it. And she decided to drop it in a trash bin. WTF.

Hey guess what. I do wish harm upon this human piece of refuse. The tolerance of abusers is what keeps them going. Anyone who does something so ugly to another life is deserving of whatever horror is dished their way.

Snarlz is right. Even without humans, this can be a cruel and violent world, and a house cat’s instincts have been dulled to the potential dangers that lay outside. I have made the mistake of letting my cats play outside unattended, and have lost two that way. My current cats still get to play outside in the back yard, but always attended. Domestic cats are just too trusting of not only people, but other potentially dangerous and deadly animals. If you love you pet, be it a cat, dog or other, invest the time to spend with it outside, or make it a strictly indoor pet.

There is no greater heartbreak than hindsight, realizing you could have prevented your own pet’s death.

And while we’re at it, why do I know lots of “dog people” who hate cats, but I’ve never met a “cat person” who hates dogs? (When I say hate, I don’t mean dislike, I mean hate as in “think they are nothing but vermin”). I’ve never been able to figure that one out.

I wonder why she did it.

I have a feeling that she’ll be writing out the explanation on a whiteboard in several shots by tomorrow.

Totally agree with Snarlz.
I’ll never have an outdoor cat. NEVER. You see too many cats dead on the side of the road, I wouldn’t want to worry about that happening to my own pet.
And don’t get me started on what cats do to wildlife.

With that being said though…. poor kitty.
I hope that heifer is found and thrown in to prison. MAN people really make me sick sometimes.

what this points up is the fact that ordinary people do cruel things…the only reason this one was caught was because of serendipitous security camera…think of all the things people do that aren’t caught…and they go on about their ordinary lives like nothing happened

Thank you, Oezicomix, for the update. I honestly hope that she ends up slapped with a fine and getting some counseling because this sort of behaviour is reprehensible.

@Snarlz, @Error94, @LisaL

I understand the sentiment of keeping indoor-only cats, but remember not everyone lives in the city or even near roads. We have a couple indoor-outdoor cats and a couple indoor-only cats. The ones that go outdoors rarely even leave our back lot. I go out there and whistle and I can count on one hand the number of times they both didn’t come bounding out of the bushes to greet me.

It was a natural evolution of who became outdoor cats and who didn’t, those who were constant in their attempts to escape evetually evolved to go outdoors at night, and meow and cry if the door isn’t opened to allow them to do so. The other two never had any desire to go outside and so, they don’t. I don’t feel there is any disservice being done to either.

Oh, and keeping your cats locked indoors is not for the cat’s sake as the cat would much rather be free to roam and risk danger than be in solitary confinement its entire life. People who keep cats indoor are doing it for the same reason as Wolfgang Priklopil did. They are control freaks and can’t deal with the thought of losing their little animal slaves.
People who keep their cats indoor should be charged with animal cruelty, same as someone who keeps his/her children locked up.

And I’m saying that as someone who has suffered from people letting their cats roam wherever they want.

@Sandyra
“She’s even asked for police protection! hah! Karma at it’s finest!!”

I see that now, she’s basically Adolf Eichmann in a white t-shirt and the outrage is entirely warranted.

Re: “barkbark”
“control freaks and can’t deal with the thought of losing their little animal slaves.”
“People who keep their cats indoor should be charged with animal cruelty”

Is this a lame troll, or are you really so out of touch with reality that you actually believe that tripe you wrote?

I rescued my cat from a neighborhood overrun with strays… and coyotes. The coyotes used to kill cats, dogs, skunks and any other animal unfortunate enough to cross their paths. You’d find dead animal carcasses just about every 5 houses or so in the summer. I took her in, gave her a safe home, food, medical care, grooming, chairs to ruin, toys to play with and all the love and affection she can handle, expecting nothing in return. I don’t let her out of the house because if I do, she will die. She was a suspicious, scared, and bitey semi-feral stray when I took her in, and it took about 4 years to earn her trust and start to see behavior that you’d expect out of a hand-raised kitten. 10 years later, she seems extremely happy and well-adjusted, and I wouldn’t trade her companionship for anything.

How does any of that make me a “control freak” or this cat my “animal slave?” I’ve been a vegetarian for 25 years, but I really hate that kind of smug uber-PETA-hippy buzz-phrase BS, it’s such a gross generalization. Perhaps using it is just a way for you to feel superior to someone else because you have deliberately alienated yourself from “mainstream society” for so long that no man or animal will seek out your company? Or maybe you’re one of those reactionary, mindless followers of the accepted, conformist “alternative” “underground” populated by people who try so very hard to be different that they all look and sound the same; parroting the latest trendy catchwords and latching on to every impotent cause du jour as long as it’s on a flyer using an “edgy” font and some “revolutionary” clip art. Go back to twisting your dirty dreadlocks and complaining about how “the man” is keeping you down with his “animal slaves,” or peeking out of your windows in a paranoid sweat, worried that someone’s cat is going to pee in your bushes, or, you know, whatever your problem is, because you do have one.

I’m from the internet, and we love cats, and you sound like a poseur.

I don’t know how some people seem to think this is a less-than-horrible act. Some people say those of us who would like to see her severely punished are overreacting. I feel like she should be jailed for about 45 days for this act. I feel like someone who kicks a child, even in jest, should be jailed for longer. People who behave like this are rarely one-and-done kind of people. They habitually do this kind of crap and make the world a worse place for it.

Cruelty is cruelty whatever species you perpetrate it against. Yes, it was a cat. Why does that mean people are allowed to be hurtful to it? For those of you using the, “it’s not like it was a child” defense, what makes you think a person who is willing to commit atrocities on an animal won’t do the same to a human – or hasn’t already?