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Police in Nagoya say 10 stray cats have been found poisoned to death in the city’s port area between Feb 20 and March 17.
Police made the announcement Friday after tests showed one of the cats had traces of methomyl, a pesticide, in its stomach, Sankei Shimbun reported. In other cases, herbicides were used.
All the cats’ bodies were found in the Garden Wharf area which is adjacent to the Nagoya Port Public Aquarium.
Police suspect the cats were fed food laced with the poisons and are examining street surveillance camera footage to try and identify the person or persons who might have left food in the area.
According to an animal conservation group, there are believed to be more than 100 stray cats inhabiting the Garden Wharf area.
© Japan Today
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Maria
This is devastating news - the cruelty of people is hard to understand.
There is a local group which is running a TNR program for that area. A lot of these cats will have been neutered, the rest are going to be, once caught, and so the colony will naturally shrink and disappear.
Appalling.
nandakandamanda
Adjacent to the Nagoya Port Public Aquarium... some of them been fishing, I wonder? Aquarium policy perhaps? Or a sadistic nutter? Various possibilities come to mind. Poor cats, though.
chisineko
It begins with animals then transfers to people. Good luck
mmwkdw
Again ?
This isnt news.
Maria
@mmwkdw - You think it isn't news, that someone has deliberately targeted a colony of cats who were being monitored by a local animal welfare group for long-term TNR? Someone took the time to get poison, get food, put one into the other, and go to the feeding stations to ensure maximum death - deaths which would have been painful for the animals, and can easily have killed other wildlife.
Go read Fox News, then.