Animal activists rescue 46 cats from Malaysia apartment
Man who sought donations online insists he did not abuse the animals but could not afford to treat their illnesses or clean his apartment since his mother’s death last year
Forty-six cats neglected were rescued by a police team from an apartment in Bandar Baru Sentul, Kuala Lumpur following a complaint lodged by animal rights activists.
The chairman of Sahabat Kucing Jalanan, Mohd Rosli Mohd Ariffin said he and a group of netizens had suspected that an unemployed man had exploited the cats to make money.
The man was said to have used his Facebook account to solicit financial contributions, purportedly to buy cat food and for the treatment of his sick cats.
Subsequently, Rosli lodged a police report at the Sentul Police Station.
Rosli and his friends, together with the police, had gone to the 41-year-old man’s home and found the neglected cats locked up in cages in several rooms.
“It is very sad to see the cats being locked in small cages in the kitchen and that the cats were not looked after at all. Almost all the cats were infected with ‘sporo’ and were sick,” he told reporters.