A STRAY CAT.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20471, 15 February 1932, Page 11

A STRAY CAT.

TO THE EDITOR OT THE PBESS. Sir,—A case of cruelly allowing a cat to stray was brought to my on Friday last. I was asked if our Society could find a homo for a half-grown Persian female cat, a beautifully marked creature (smoke and light grey fur). It had been placed over a fence by the first owner. The owner of the property would not keep it. I was asked whether •we.could find it a home; but owing -to its'being a female it was not so easy a task, so I advised that it should be mercifully destroyed. However the person on whose property the cat was left would not listen to this, but motored it up the Cashmere Hills and abandoned it there. One wonders how people can be so callous. Unfortunately there is no law forbidding people to keep female cats and dogs unless they intend to keep them decently, and so these, poor strgys run about starving, finally becoming mangy and diseased; nor is it a matter that any inspector cau cope with. 1 trust that this letter may catch the eyes of many kindly residents of Cashmere Hills and that the beautiful little Persian cat left .there on Friday night may find a kindly home. —Yours, etc., MRS A. D. HOUSTON, Dominion President, Humanitarian and Anti-Vivisection Society of Ivew Zealand. February 13th, 1932.