POLICE in Spain announced on Thursday that they had launched an inquiry into the suspected poisoning of nearly 50 street cats, which may result in the offenders facing several years in prison under a new animal welfare law.
Trojan News reports that locals discovered the bodies of at least ten cats at the local trash where the colony was based on December 31 in La Carlota town, just outside the southern city of Cordoba.
They notified the animal rights group PACMA, which filed a complaint with the Guardia Civil police on Tuesday regarding “the mass poisoning of a 47-strong feline colony.”
“Some of the animals were found inside nearby containers while others were lying in the street with only one survivor, a young male cat which is in very poor state,” a copy of the complaint which was seen by AFP detailed.
The remaining cats had vanished, according to a PACMA spokeswoman, and were assumed to have died in the neighbouring woods when the poison took effect.
