Eight animal shelters claim Wararat adopts their cats

By JESSADA JANTARARAK 
THE NATION 

 

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A 30-year-old woman at the heart of cat torture allegations had adopted at least eight cats from separate animal shelters, a vet from Watchdog Thailand said yesterday.

 

A 30-year-old woman at the heart of cat torture allegations had adopted at least eight cats from separate animal shelters, a vet from Watchdog Thailand said yesterday.

 

Representatives of eight private animal shelters came forward to name her as the adopter of their cats, said Dr Pattaranun Sajjarom, after the story went viral on social network platforms that the woman, identified only as Wararat, may have tortured and killed a kitten.

 

The doctor was referring to an allegation that Wararat had adopted a four-month-old kitten from a shelter last week before cutting all communication channels with the shelter’s owner, who was trying to get an update on the status of the cat.

 

The owner managed to reach her in a telephone conversation, during which Wararat allegedly claimed she was allergic to cats and had therefore given it to a friend.

 

Wararat however agreed to meet the shelter owner at Phetkasem district police station, whose jurisdiction covers a clinic that had handed the cat over to her.

 

In full view of the officers there she handed the shelter owner the carcass of the kitten, claimed it had been bitten by a dog – and left.

 

The shelter owner told police she suspected that the animal had been tortured before being killed, which would likely be in violation of the Cruelty Prevention and Welfare of Animals Act.

 

With the permission of animal welfare officers, police then searched Wararat’s condo and her parents’ house but found nothing incriminating.

 

Police did, however, seek a meeting with Wararat but, according to the vet, nobody has since been able to contact her.

 

Pattaranun yesterday revealed that her agency was collecting evidence to have Wararat indicted.

 

She said she was checking a report alleging that Wararat may have recorded video clips of the torture before posting them to the “Dark Web” to attract viewers in exchange for cryptocurrency.

 

Pattaranun referred to an examination of the cat’s carcass conducted by Watchdog Thailand, which she indicated that the cat did not die by dog but by torture. Police, however, have requested to get a second examination of the body in the form of an official post-mortem.

 

Pattaranun’s group has already handed over the cat’s remains to police for further examination, the vet said.

 

Watchdog Thailand says Wararat has worked at entertainment venues and that she participated in some politics-related gatherings and in campaigns against violence and unfairness in society.

 

The group has also published several photos of her on its Facebook page, some of them taken during her visit to the police station. The inset photo shows several cats, including the one that died, in front of several others. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30356973

 

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

he shelter’s owner, who was trying to get an update on the status of the cat.

Thais people really have nothing to do....

Since she is a minor celebrity who likes to kill cats on camera I doubt anything will happen to her.  Apparently the police did not even question her when she turned over the dead kitten; which she had previously said she gave away.  Nothing suspicious, since the police regularly lie, they think nothing of other Thais doing the same.  It is culturally condoned behavior.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

attaranun referred to an examination of the cat’s carcass conducted by Watchdog Thailand, which she indicated that the cat did not die by dog but by torture.

This is beyond words. 

Just sick. I cannot eat.

 

Strange how outraged and compassionate most of us become at the notion of a kitten being brutally treated for financial gain, yet turn a conveniently blind eye (deliberately?) to the appalling lives and deaths suffered by the animals we consume as part of our daily diet.

 

I guarantee anybody who visits a factory farm and/or slaughterhouse will never want to eat meat again.

 

 

Strange how outraged and compassionate most of us become at the notion of a kitten being brutally treated for financial gain, yet turn a conveniently blind eye (deliberately?) to the appalling lives and deaths suffered by the animals we consume as part of our daily diet.

 

I guarantee anybody who visits a factory farm and/or slaughterhouse will never want to eat meat again.

 

 

You can't guarantee anything.

I worked in a slaughter house years ago .

 

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17 minutes ago, roo860 said:

You can't guarantee anything.

I worked in a slaughter house years ago .

 

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I stand corrected. You must have an unusually strong stomach.

49 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

yet turn a conveniently blind eye (deliberately?) to the appalling lives and deaths suffered by the animals we consume as part of our daily diet.

They are being raised specially for food. If everything is done properly (this is important and violations need to be addressed) their life is easy and safe, death quick, and they earn merit by providing food (=life) to others. Especially in small private farms/homesteads where they receive a fair lot of love and respect through their lifetime.

The cat was being tortured and killed with needless cruelty for no valid reason, just for the fun of it.

Quite a difference.

I stand corrected. You must have an unusually strong stomach.

Not really, I was a pipefitter working at night when the place was empty.

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16 minutes ago, MaksimMislavsky said:

They are being raised specially for food. If everything is done properly (this is important and violations need to be addressed) their life is easy and safe, death quick, and they earn merit by providing food (=life) to others. Especially in small private farms/homesteads where they receive a fair lot of love and respect through their lifetime.

The cat was being tortured and killed with needless cruelty for no valid reason, just for the fun of it.

Quite a difference.

Either you never seen inside a factory farm or slaughterhouse or your definition of an "easy" life and "safe (??), quick death" are very different from mine.

11 hours ago, webfact said:

the shelter’s owner, who was trying to get an update on the status of the cat.

 

7 hours ago, Borzandy said:

Thais people really have nothing to do....

Seems you never adopted a pet in your life.

 

If so you would know this is a standard procedure from a shelter to check up with the animals to prevent things like this could/would happen.

 

This time the system failed because she made sure she couldn't be contacted anymore so she could do her cruelties.

21 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

Either you never seen inside a factory farm or slaughterhouse or your definition of an "easy" life and "safe (??), quick death" are very different from mine.

I can agree that a fair number of factory farms / slaughterhouses don't abide to responsible livestock keeping practices at the moment. This needs to  and is being addressed. Many smaller farms / private homesteads naturally do - this I have witnessed personally in my homecountry Russia and in SEA

10 minutes ago, MaksimMislavsky said:

I can agree that a fair number of factory farms / slaughterhouses don't abide to responsible livestock keeping practices at the moment. This needs to  and is being addressed. Many smaller farms / private homesteads naturally do - this I have witnessed personally in my homecountry Russia and in SEA

Hopefully, experiments to grow meat from cells harvested from living animals - chicken fillets have already been produced from wing tissue - will one day see the end of all factory farms and slaughterhouses. Now that WOULD be progress.

10 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

Hopefully, experiments to grow meat from cells harvested from living animals - chicken fillets have already been produced from wing tissue - will one day see the end of all factory farms and slaughterhouses. Now that WOULD be progress.

 

Progress would be giving up the addiction to grotesque levels of meat consumption (increasingly as a "leisure" activity or to demonstrate "status") far beyond that which is nutritionally necessary, healthy or environmentally sustainable.