The Coventry Cat binner - Update on page 3!

[dakcp2001]

If there is no law broken they won't be able to "throw the book at her'.

Its really odd. She doesn't look like she is trying to really be mean to the cat, I mean she didn't throw it in the can or do anything that would physically hurt the cat. Weird. It looks like she just thought it should be there. Maybe its been keeping her awake at night? Don't excuse it, but would at least give some kind of reason.

Strange but I wouldn't really be asking for her head on a platter or anything.

If the cat was at its own house, why on earth did it take the owners 15 hours to find it? My cats would have been yowling up a storm, it wouldn't have taken 15 minutes to find them.

Animal Cruelty? Maybe the owners were at work? Or perhaps not expecting some resident scum to trash their cat. people dont put cats in the trash to be nice.

 

[Magic Mom]

What she did was wrong, but it hardly justifies beating or attacking her.

 

[Hillbeans]

Yep. I just watched the video myself and she's looking around for way to long, seeing if anyone is watching her before picking the cat up and dumping it into the bin.

And that kitty looked SO loving too... just rubbing up against her hand and probably loving the attention.

Foul woman.

Agreed...why did she do that? The cat seemed to be very sweet to her and to just dump it in the trash....?? I agree that she should have to sit in the trash for 15 hours as her punishment.

 

[Mickey Fliers]

That is totally bizarre! What a nut.

 

[luvsJack]

Animal Cruelty? Maybe the owners were at work? Or perhaps not expecting some resident scum to trash their cat. people dont put cats in the trash to be nice.

Didn't the police say that no law was broken? I mean maybe it doesn't actually
fit the legal description of animal cruelty? Do any to the articles ever say if the cat was injured or anything? It was a terrible thing to do and if it was my cat I would have been livid, but not sure I would want to see someone go to jail for it if my cat wasn't injured and I certainly wouldn't be wishing physical harm to come to her.

Its defitnitly an odd thing to do. As for the owners being a work, maybe. As for not expecting someone to put the cat in the trash can, I am positive that if I heard the commotion my cats would have made, I would have went looking regardless of where I expected them to be. My cat was accidently closed up in closet once, believe me, we quickly started looking for her when the racket started!!

 

[si-am]

Didn't the police say that no law was broken? I mean maybe it doesn't actually
fit the legal description of animal cruelty? Do any to the articles ever say if the cat was injured or anything? It was a terrible thing to do and if it was my cat I would have been livid, but not sure I would want to see someone go to jail for it if my cat wasn't injured and I certainly wouldn't be wishing physical harm to come to her.

Its defitnitly an odd thing to do. As for the owners being a work, maybe. As for not expecting someone to put the cat in the trash can, I am positive that if I heard the commotion my cats would have made, I would have went looking regardless of where I expected them to be. My cat was accidently closed up in closet once, believe me, we quickly started looking for her when the racket started!!

I have accidentally locked one of our cats in the laundry room overnight. It is too far away from our bedroom to hear the cry!

Oh, the guilt the next day...

 

[luvsJack]

I have accidentally locked one of our cats in the laundry room overnight. It is too far away from our bedroom to hear the cry!

Oh, the guilt the next day...

It was just a kitten in the closet. I never knew that much noise could come out of something so small!! We thought something must have attacked the poor little thing! We finally realized where she was and opened the door. She just strolled out with her tail in the air, acting extremely insulted by the whole thing. She wouldn't speak to us for hours.

The kitten we have now HATES any closed door that has a person behind it and will sit at one and howl until we let her in the room. When we go to bed the last thing before lights out is to make sure she is in somone's bedroom. Very frightening sound when woken from a sound sleep!

 

[si-am]

It was just a kitten in the closet. I never knew that much noise could come out of something so small!! We thought something must have attacked the poor little thing! We finally realized where she was and opened the door. She just strolled out with her tail in the air, acting extremely insulted by the whole thing. She wouldn't speak to us for hours.

The kitten we have now HATES any closed door that has a person behind it and will sit at one and howl until we let her in the room. When we go to bed the last thing before lights out is to make sure she is in somone's bedroom. Very frightening sound when woken from a sound sleep!

Oh yeah, I don't know what it is about cats and closed doors, but they can't stand it. God forbid I have to use the bathroom and close the door without letting the cats in first!

 

[C.Ann]

Well, the fact that she knew what she was doing was wrong would make her sane, but it doesn't negate that she might have some mental illness that would drive her to do this. I don't know if this is considered animal abuse, but if it is, she should absolutely be charged with it.

I agree.. Seems like extremely abnormal behavior for an otherwise "normal" person.. The fact that she works doesn't mean she can't be suffering from some sort of mental illness or limited mental capacity..

I'd be interested to find out more about her..

If there is a penalty over there for such actions, then she will have to pay the consequences - unless she's found not responsible for her actions based on mental issues..

I think the public reaction is way over the top though.. Being physically threatened? Requiring police protection? I think that's a bit extreme - considering the cat wasn't even physically harmed..

 

[tinkerbellfan6880]

I think what she did was wrong to do that to a poor defenseless little cat. I really hope that she gets fined for what she did. By the I know what it is like to lock a cat somewhere. My family have to keep the basement door open for our cats. Sometimes my dad forgets to look to make sure that the cats are upstairs from the basement before he closes the door. One or two times both cats have been locked in the basement before hear the two them meowing to get out. My female cat meows to go down to the basement a lot. Also they don't like it if any of our doors are close.

 

[Magpie]

Oh dear, this woman is an idiot, and quickly making matters much, much worse...

Woman who trashed cat asks 'What's the big deal?'
By QMI Agency

The woman who was filmed by a closed-circuit camera dumping a cat in a dumpster in Coventry, U.K., told an interviewer: "I don't know what the fuss is about. It's just a cat."

The video, which went viral on Tuesday, showed a middle-aged woman stopped to pet a cat on the side of the road before picking it up by the scruff of the neck and pitching it in a nearby trash can and closing the lid. The cat reportedly sat in the trash can for nearly 16 hours before its owner found it and rescued it.

"I did it as a joke because I thought it would be funny," she told the Daily Mail newspaper in the U.K.. "I never thought it would be trapped, I expected it to wriggle out."

But the woman, identified as Mary Bale, 50, has incited the ire of cat lovers everywhere. A Facebook group with nearly 20,000 members is calling for her arrest and, sometimes, even violence. She has reportedly received death threats, too, prompting police to station two officers outside her home on Tuesday.

But Facebook wasn't the only place where angry cat-lovers sought to punish Bale.

Popular Internet bulletin board 4Chan quickly developed a number of forum threads designed to find the woman and publish her personal information.

By Tuesday evening, Bale's home address, phone number, work address and phone number, daughter's phone number, Facebook profile and even posted GPS coordinates and Google Street View images of the woman's house.

"I hope she likes pizza," one user wrote after posting her address.

Yikes!

 

[Kath2003]

Goodness, putting ANY animal in a bin would have been awful but to put someone's PET - whom I'm sure they care about deeply and spend a lot of time/money taking care of it - in a bin and then to say it's not a big deal?

 

[si-am]

Thought it would be funny? To whom? Certainly not the cat!

 

[Liberty Belle]

Oh dear, this woman is an idiot, and quickly making matters much, much worse...



Yikes!

What a complete idiot and jerk.

 

[Hercules10]

By Tuesday evening, Bale's home address, phone number, work address and phone number, daughter's phone number, Facebook profile and even posted GPS coordinates and Google Street View images of the woman's house.

Cat lovers are just as freakin nutz to go after her daughter. That's more messed up then tossing an animal in a can.

 

[Kath2003]

Whilst I think it's awful (and I have two cats myself - one of whom would be just as friendly to a passer-by as the one in the video/bin!), I genuinely cannot see getting SO worked up about it. I think she needs to be severely cautioned or possibly fined for animal cruetly, and the world - incluidng her friends and family - now know how much of a muppet she is (and hopefully will take a serious look at her mental health).

Gotta remember that there are very few CCTV cameras on quiet residential streets like that one in the UK. This means she was either very unlucky, or makes a habit of this and it was only a matter of time until she got caught. I hope it's the former.

I'm also glad it wasn't bin day.

We let our older cat out. It's common in the UK - in fact, it's considered very UNCOMMON to have an indoor cat. We accept the risks - traffic, wild animals, other cats and their squabbles, a poke in the eye from a sharp plant, getting shut in a shed, chased by the neighbour's dog etc. - when we let cats out but never once did I consider that a middle-aged passer-by might throw my cat in the bin...

 

[rie'smom]

What the woman did was awful. The scary thing is that there are cameras to record it. Big Brother is alive and well.

 

[Kath2003]

What the woman did was awful. The scary thing is that there are cameras to record it. Big Brother is alive and well.

The cameras belonged to the owner of the house (and the cat).

 

[rie'smom]

The cameras belonged to the owner of the house (and the cat).

Thanks!

 

[Kath2003]

This is what I mean though: I don't know of ANYONE who has cameras at their house. People with cameras do have to display signs stating that there are cameras present, but even having them in the first place is really very uncommon here. So, she's either done this many times and never got caught, or happened to pick the one house on the one road with the one camera pointing in the one spot with the one cat who happened to be next to that one women with that one bin right there....