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Cat left in pot was cruel and inhumane

Published 12:03am Sunday, May 20, 2012

Three weeks ago, I ran to Walmart to do my fast weekend shopping. After I finished in the store, I thought I would go look at the plants. As I walked to the area, I heard a kitten crying, and as it became louder, I started looking for it. There in a large flower pot with Coke cans, a water bottle and dirty tissues was a newborn kitten.

It was so cold and hungry and it couldn’t move, which led me to believe it was put there because one of the workers said there were two more. This is an act of cruelty to put this animal alone in a pot. I looked, but never found the other kittens.

I went to find the manager, but he wasn’t in.

Someone should have called as soon as this problem was noted. I called the Natchez Humane Society and was told, “No, we can’t take any cats or dogs, we are full up.”

I live in Vidalia and have given many contributions and I have cats of my own. I feed strays, and those that I can catch I have spayed.

You guessed it, I put the kitten in my purse and came home and put it on a heating pad. I fed him and named him BoBo.

God gave us animals for pleasure and beauty. They have a heart and soul just like we do.

For whoever did this cruel act, you should ask for forgiveness.

BoBo has been to the vet. He eats great and is litter box training.

I have mailed letters to the Vidalia and Walmart home office.

When he gets old enough to roll the toilet paper off the roll, I will get him adopted.

 

LaVerne McPhate

Vidalia resident

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  • Anonymous

    About a year ago, Tony Byrne wrote a Top of the Morning calling for a public meeting on the Humane Society’s proposed new shelter, which led to the November election of new board members and new management at the shelter. Now only 6 months since then, the shelter is overflowing with unadoptable animals (sick, elderly, ill-behaved, or otherwise unattractive), and are turning away people who want to surrender unwanted, found or stray animals. Most of those turn-aways will end up being dumped in the country, let loose in streets & roads to be run over or starved to death, drowned or shot by people who can’t be bothered. All those “free” pets offered in ND classified ads take away from possible adoptions of shelter animals for which the adoption fee covers the cost of spay or neuter operations which cut down on unwanted births. By the end of summer, the shelter population will all be sick or dead from overcrowding and incompetent management. And I’ll bet there STILL will be no new shelter building. Thanks for nothing, Mr. Byrne.

  • Anonymous

    It’s great to have people like you in this world that care about animals.

  • Anonymous

    Couldn’t agree with you more abc747!  How many more of these innocent animals have to suffer?  Is this “proposed” shelter EVER going to be built??? 

  • Anonymous

    I have a cat that my husband brought home to me 7 years ago. She was put in a flower pot by her mom to hide her from a pack of dogs. The dogs had gotten the other kittens and she and the mom were the only ones left. The mom was killed by the dogs shortly after placing the kitten in the pot. Before you start criticizing people and talking badly about a business in a public forum, you might want to think about possible other reasons that the kitten was in the pot. Mother cats often hide their kittens. Just because the place was not what you thought was appropriate doesnt mean that it wasn’t what the mother thought was necessary. I have always seen feral cats around Walmart. What you may have done was actually separate the kitten from its mother before it was time. You may owe the people who you have talked badly about an apology.

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