Cat and two of her kittens suffocate after being abandoned outside Hong Kong shelter

A cat concern group has called the police after a cat and four of her kittens were abandoned in a bag outside its shelter in To Kwa Wan.

The mother and two kittens had suffocated, while one male and one female kitten were still alive. They were left outside the shelter of Cats Society on Chi Kiang Street at about noon on Wednesday. Signs showed that the cat mother had been breastfeeding her kittens until she died.

The surviving kittens, aged about two months, were stable after treatment and later returned to the shelter.

 A member of the society, Ms Lau, said it was not the first time they had had to call the police after coming across similar cases.

 “The people [who abandoned the cats outside the shelter] are really out of their minds. How could they put the cats in the bag and under the sun like this?” said Lau.

 “To abandon them is already very bad but they put them in the sealed bags. This is unacceptable.”