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In Malaysia, animal rights activists are demanding jail time for the owners of a boarding business described as a “pet hotel from hell.” PetMD reports that over 300 neglected cats were rescued Sunday from two sites outside Kuala Lumpur. Nine cats were reported dead.
The local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals released a statement calling for the facility operators to serve the maximum six month jail penalty for animal cruelty. They also suggest that the responsible parties “undergo psychiatric treatment and be banned from animal businesses and from owning pets for life.”
The cats were boarded while their owners traveled in observation of Malaysian holidays. Upon returning, the cats’ owners found both facilities locked and abandoned — with the cats inside. Authorities broke in and discovered that the animals were hungry, dehydrated and trapped in squalid cages. Many were sick or covered in urine and feces.
According to PetMD, police have questioned the two owners of the boarding business but no arrests have been made.
Animal rights groups in Malaysia have often criticized the government for being too soft on animal abusers. The current fine for animal cruelty is 200 ringgit or about 65 US dollars. Following news of the “pet hotel from hell,” Veterinary Services Department head Abdul Aziz Jamaluddin has announced a plan to increase this fine to up to 100,000 ringgit ($34,000) by next year.
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+ add your ownAnimal abusers are the ones who eventually graduates to be human abusers. It is a Fact. Found by statistically while interviwing the criminals in prosons every where. I wish the parents as adults , should & could teach their younger generations that brutalizing animals are not OK. Perhaps in the new school carriculum needs to include new subjects how to be kind & compassionate towards any living being on this planet. That includes the animals too.
Horrible..
My my, such a rush to judgement. I have heard only one side of this story.
I'm not Malaysian, I have no say in they're laws.
Farm animal abuse trumps this. i am very sympathetic to those animals. But people come first. How did this situation arise? Some people are raised with no respect for animals.
Some of us are raised with no respect for religion, does that give the church a right to burn us?
People first, I know. I'm a people myself!
These sick people need to live in the same conditions as these cats Not for a month or year, but for the rest of their miserable lives.
The owners should also be prosecuted for fraud. People paid for their cats to be well cared for on their holiday. They should get their money back with punitive damages - when you pay a professional to care for your animal temporarily, you should get what you paid for. I don't know what the law is on fraud in Kuala Lumpur but I hope it's a strict one!
This is a nightmare. So many people use professional boarding services and trust that their cats will come home healthy, clean, friendly, not traumatized by neglect and starvation. I hope they get prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Maybe local people should think about asking trusted friends to look after their cats. It would be safer!
This world is full of crazies---animal abusers being amongst the worst. Jail 'em, stop them from having animals again, ever.
This is sick! Lock these people up in the conditions in which they kept the cats!
Thanks.
all they get is a paddy wack!!! come on be serious, they need jail time!!!
what a disgrace. i sincerely hope that there is enough of an outcry about this to ensure that perpetrators are duly prosecuted and that penalties are commensurate with the crime.
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