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Woman dumps cat in wheelie bin on CCTV
Video: Offender tracked down and ‘under police protection after receiving death threats’
The woman who was caught on CCTV dumping a kitten into a wheelie bin for no apparent reason has reportedly been offered police protection after she was identified and tracked down. According to Sky News, the woman is being protected by West Midlands police after death threats were made against her via the internet.
The footage - which was posted by the cat's owners on YouTube and Facebook in an effort to catch the offender - shows the woman, aged around 50, stroking the young tabby on a wall outside a house in Coventry on Saturday evening. Suddenly she grabs the cat by the scruff of the neck before throwing it in the bin and slamming the lid closed. She then walks off.
The cat - who is less than a year old - is thought to have been trapped in the bin for nearly 16 hours before she was discovered by her owners around Sunday lunchtime.
Daryll and Stephanie Mann had been looking for the cat, named Lola, and had searched nearby alleyways. Finally they heard a meowing coming from the bin.
Daryll Mann told Sky News that he had assumed Lola had been dumped by "someone drunk coming back from the pub".
He added: "I was shocked how someone could do something like that to an animal, I know some people don't like cats but you wouldn't expect them to do that to an animal that can't defend itself."
A spokesman for the RSPCA described the incident as a "mindless act of animal cruelty". Investigations are ongoing in liaison with Coventry Police, he added. ·
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The sick person in question, who also hols a responsible job, or did have in a bank, shold be made to go in to a bin simular as the Cat did, by her own hands, and undergo the same ordeal....I as one would put her in a bin myself........kind regards
peter sinski
DID SHE WHEEEEELI DO IT
THATS THE TROUBLE WITH CATS, YOU DON`T KNOW WHERE THEY HAVE BIN.