A tiny, four-week-old kitten was saved from a state of desperation after becoming trapped amid very large rock boulders on the breakwater on Towyn beach.
RSPCA Cymru was alerted after the members of the public heard meows at the boulders adjacent to a cycle path – though the cat could not be seen.
Officers from the charity made three separate visits to the site to secure necessary access to the kitten.
RSPCA officers first nicknamed the kitten ‘Rocky’; and later … Continue reading…
A Bradford man has been jailed for four months for leaving his kitten’s horrendous eye infection untreated which caused the eyeball to rupture and burst.
Raja Zulqurnean (DOB 02/09/1982), Southmere Oval, Bradford pleaded guilty to a offence* of causing unnecessary suffering to his kitten who was aged just eight weeks old at the time.
Bradford Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday (Tues) how the RSPCA was called to reports of a suffering kitten at the address after a resident saw … Continue reading…
A much-loved cat has been put to sleep on humane grounds after being shot in York.
Biscuit, an eight-month-old ginger tom cat, was found severely injured in the garden of a neighbour’s house, a few doors from his home on Almsford Road, on Monday night (18 March).
He was rushed to a local vet practice where x-rays showed a metal air rifle pellet lodged in his spine. Paralysed from the hips down and in immense pain, the difficult … Continue reading…
A feral kitten saved from a hedge at the 2017 Royal Welsh Show is doing “really well” – as his new owner returned to the site of the unique rescue one year on.
The male kitten, aged only weeks old, grabbed many headlines at the 2017 Royal Welsh Agricultural Show, after being rescued by RSPCA officers Phil Lewis and Warwick Burgess.
Fortunately, the kitten was given a clean bill of health by a local Builth Wells veterinary practice, and RSPCA … Continue reading…
An RSPCA inspector has expressed her “shock and dismay” after a young female kitten was left alone and abandoned in a zipped-up handbag down a Cardiff lane.
She was found in the bag by a member of the public, near their home on Albany Road, at approximately 4pm last Wednesday (6 June).
It was clear an attempt had been made to trap the kitten within the handbag, as the zip was completely done up aside from a very small gap…. Continue reading…