Coppia di pensionati che ha rapito il gatto del vicino e lo ha legato in una borsa, incarcerata per crudeltà sugli animali
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/04/15/retired-couple-who-abducted-neighbours-cat-and-tied-it-in-a-bag-jailed-for-animal-cruelty/
di jay_el_62
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>A retired couple who captured their neighbour’s cat and tied it in a bag, before leaving it at a lake a few miles away, were jailed for three months for what a judge described as “cruel” and “horrendous” behaviour.
Nasty people.
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Fucking monsters
How did they get caught? Did someone tell, did someone let the cat out of the bag?
I’d take their compensation and burn it in front of them*.
*I wouldn’t. I’d donate to a rescue.
Cat was found 3 days later in very poor condition but alive. Thank god for that at least, hope its recovering.
> Patrick Connolly was previously employed as a lollipop man for six years before he retired.
I wonder if that’s the extent of his working life, or did they just forget to include the rest
Big angry eyebrows on them
Jaysus that’s a hard 64 and 67 year old. My parents are around that age and don’t look as old.
powerful gammon energy
Fuckers! This is why I keep my cats inside. People are so evil.
>Tempers had reached a peak, and it was accepted that her clients did something that was “exceptionally foolish”.
At what point do you go from “jaysus the cats after shitting in the garden” to “let’s do the most obscene act of animal cruelty you can imagine”.
Cat shit is just a part of life sometimes. My mam’s house is in an area with lots of strays and for some reason, they loved treating our back garden like a litter box and it was my job to pick it all up. But they also felt safe there, it’s where many of them had their kittens. They must feel like it’s home. They kept out of our way aside from when the kittens were tiny babies, when the mother cat would present them to us right at the door.
Monaghan no comment.
That’s something my neighbour would do. Gave out to me for putting bird seed out. Hates all animals, often tells me the next time he catches a cat in his garden he’ll drown it. Hes a genuine psychopath, they’re among us
Absolutely disgusting.
OMG. What a pair of vile specimens. My dad can’t stand cats shitting in his garden and doesn’t particularly like them but like most people it would never enter his head to do anything like that.
Prison was bit harsh. How about a fine.
Monaghan native here…doesn’t really surprise me. The amount of animal abuse in Monaghan is immense. My cats are all from people who were going to drown them.
My father and mother used to drown kittens, my father ran a puppy mill, along with docking their tails with scissors. My dog was from a man who was going to dump him on the side of the road. One of the neighbour’s growing up shot another neighbour’s dog for entering his property.
Nothing’s ever done. The dog wardens are useless. 😭 I’m literally in therapy to this day for the animal abuse I’ve seen growing up (10/15 years ago). 🫠
Pair of scumbags
CCTV in their own home. 🤦
I wonder if it is possible for the neighbors to sue them for the loss of value of their property due to everyone knowing what a shitty people they are.
I’m glad they were caught on CCTV. Bad enough to take the cat but the cruelty of tying it in a bag rather than just letting it off if they didn’t like it fir whatever reason.
Jesus what were they thinking . I have issues with cats but wouldn’t do anything like that . I use a water pistol with water and vinegar . It works grand on them . The local cats all smell like the chipper
A lite sentence if you ask me. Only one sentence worthy for harming an animal out of pure malevolence and this is coming from a carnivore.
At least they got a custodial sentence – Irish courts often give ludicrously light sentences for animal cruelty.
“a good, respectable couple”.
My bollocks
They look as cuntish as they act.
Psychopath behaviour to treat a defenseless animal like that.
Absolute scumbags, unforgivable imo.
The cats owners should start shitting in their garden instead.
They would pray for jail if they did that to my cat
Wtf :/
>The cat was found three days later, while “in a very poor condition but alive”.
3 days? Jesus the poor cat.
So what happens now? The cat has to come back home to her territory and live next to those neighbours again?