Animal charity stunned by kitten in letterbox

Date Published: 16-Jun-2011

by Peter Horgan

The Galway Society of Prevention Cruelty to Animals is urging people to neuter their pets as the only solution to prevent kittens and puppies being left to die in tragic circumstances.

On Monday, a four-week old kitten was shoved through the letterbox of their headquarters on St. Augustine Street at 9:45am.

“We’re used to getting boxes of kittens and puppies and bags of clothes with animals, but this is the first time we’ve had one pushed through the letterbox. We recently received a gear bag with clothes on the bottom, four kittens in the middle and clothes on top and it was by pure chance that it was opened,” says Margaret O’Sullivan of the GSPCA.

“Neutering animals is the only solution to stop this madness. We’re overloaded and we can barely cope with the kittens and puppies we do find. Quite a lot of them are left in woods and at the side of roads and die horrible, slow deaths.

In 2010, the GSPCA took over 26,000 calls, of which over 6,000 were cruelty cases. The animal shelter cares for sick and injured and young animals who are abandoned or whose owner is unknown, with the purpose of re-homing.

The GSPCA can be contacted on 091 563631 or email gspca@eircom.net

For more on this story, see the Galway City Tribune.