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Who would dump and abandon four young kittens in a donation bin where they they could have been smothered by bags of clothing? That’s the question investigators with the Lincoln County Humane Society in St. Catharines want answered right now. And as Lauran Sabourin tells us, the seven week old kittens were rescued after a woman walking by heard them crying for help.
Looking at these four, seven week old kittens bouncing around inside the Lincoln County Humane Society, you’d never know the ordeal they just went through being dumped and abandoned inside this clothing donation box. It was in the No Frills parking lot at Lake and Lakeshore in St. Catharines.
Kevin Strooband is with the Lincoln County SPCA: “These kittens would not have survived. They would have succumbed to smothering likely. One from the garbage bag, two from the weight of clothes dumped on top of them.”
It was a lady who was out for her daily noon time walk that heard meowing coming out of this box. She knew something was wrong. And called the Lincoln County Humane Society.”
Investigator Todd Menard came out and could hear the kittens crying twenty feet away. He grabbed one kitten and named that one Charity. The other, who was difficult to catch, he called Dodger: “After I was able to get them out, I was able to get some food in them right away, and they ate like there was no tomorrow.”
About 2:30 Friday morning, the humane society got an emegency call from Textile Waste Diversion, the company that empties the bins. They found two more kittens in a sealed garbage bag. they weren’t making any noise at all.
The company has put up a $500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person who did this.
Todd: “We’re asking people to look at these kittens. Look at their faces. See if they recognize who had these kittens. All four of them.”
The culprit is facing up to two years in jail and a $60,000 fine for deliberately putting these kittens in distress.
Todd: “They could have just come to us. And turned these cats over to us. I’m really dumb founded as to why somebody would do this.”
Now the company that’s putting up the reward money is also paying to have them spayed and neutered. They’ll be up for adoption soon. But the Lincoln County Humane Society wants the public to know that they have other precious dogs and cats available for adoption right away.
