The Kumamoto City Animal Protection Center announced on Tuesday that about 150 dead cats were found at the home of a woman who belongs to an animal protection group, and that the woman has been arrested on suspicion of violating the Animal Protection Law.
According to the center, after receiving a report from a cat owner, the woman's home and shed in Kita Ward were searched in late May, and about 150 dead cats were discovered, Sankei Shimbun reported. Twelve live cats were also found.
Some of the dead cats were in an advanced state of decomposition.
On May 27, a person who had given a cat to the woman, said, "I asked for the cat back, but it was dead. I saw signs of abuse, such as the skin peeling off its legs."
The law stipulates penalties for cases in which animals are kept in facilities where the carcasses of other protected animals are left unattended, and the city filed a criminal complaint on June 6.
Meanwhile, local media reported that the animal protection center had received inquiries in July and November last year about the woman’s home where at least 20 cats were being kept, and that some of them appeared to have died.
Animal welfare officials investigated at the time, but said they were only able to check the exterior of the home and could not find any circumstances that would lead them to suspect animal abuse.
The animal protection group where the woman has been working as a volunteer since 2020, takes in stray cats and dogs and finds homes for them. The group also accepts cats from people who no longer want their pets.
© Japan Today
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WA4TKG
This is a national news story folks
virusrex
What is the point of having animal welfare officials going if they can't actually even investigate? If the woman refused to allow them to enter that should be reason enough to take stronger measures.
WoodyLee
So the group was allowing this psychopath to take these cats to her CAVE to KILL them.
Moskollo
If the lady is harming cats she’s mentally deranged, they generally leave you alone and rarely get aggressive..
Yubaru
Where? Never saw anything on Fuji tonight.
Speed
This is like a horror movie.
Nagoya Neko
I have 3 rescue cats and this really upsets me. This is just terrible.
wallace
The stink must be awful.
CaptDingleheimer
Crazy cat lady.... I bet she drives an old Subaru and has tie-dyed tapestries hanging up in her house.
masugomi
This is why I don't trust animal "protection" groups.
Ricky Kaminski13
Have two rescue cats as well that we love dearly. This was a a house of horrors. Takes a demented , twisted , pathetic excuse for a human to hurt or neglect our feline overlords! It’s pretty obvious for anyone that has one that they are gods!
GuruMick
People please ....she has been arrested on SUSPICION of violating an animal protection law.
There may be other reasons, not here disclosed, why 120 dead cats were found at her home.
Nah...I cant think of any either.
Harry_Gatto
is where you should have written "cats or any other animal" and not (I'm not allowed to be rude), the nonsense which you wrote.
kaimycahl
Perhaps she should take a cat nap! She has problems.
purple_depressed_bacon
Animal hoarders are alarming. I can't even begin to imagine what her house looked or smelt like. The poor cats. Japan really needs to beef up their animal rights laws.
Neurozoo
Those who advocate for a thing are usually the ones most guilty, all advocacy groups are full of hypocrites
Vanillasludge
It’s more common than you know.
Years ago I visited a house as part of my job as a retail manager. The customer had a bad appliance delivery, and the truck had damaged the outside of the house. She said the drivers were in a “rush to leave”.
From the moment I entered there was a blast of urine and feces odor. Wastes covered the floor, sink and furniture. Dogs and cats everywhere.
I understood at once why the drivers rushed out.
This person turned out to be a teacher in the local school district.
Aly Rustom
that woman needs to be locked up for life. If she is ever let out again, she will no doubt do this again. She needs to be kept away from all animals, and she needs a super harsh penalty as a message to all people that cruelty to animals will not be tolerated.
Daninthepan
There is no way she will not be tormented and chased to the grave for the rest of her life by the ghosts of these tortured cats. This is Japan.
GuruMick
Joke time.
Dog sees female owner washing him, feeding him, housing him etc...thinks "She must be a God "
Cat sees female owner washing him, feeding him, housing him etc...thinks "I must be a God "