Kitten abuse cases have shelter in Texas livid. ‘Innocent suffering has to stop'
A shelter in Texas is expressing its rage over two cruelty and abandonment cases, one of which resulted in the death of a kitten.
The Humane Society of Southeast Texas in Beaumont posted a scathing Facebook caption alongside surveillance screengrabs of two different people dumping kittens on the doorstep of the shelter while it was closed.
WARNING: Link contains triggering photos of animal abandonment.
'This is not kindness. This is cruelty,' the shelter said in the June 24 post.
'In the last 24 hours, two people walked up to our shelter, read the very clear sign that says — Animal abandonment is illegal. Do not do it. — and they did it anyway.'
While the shelter believes there is no connection, both incidents involved kittens.
'The first left behind a box of kittens — alive, thankfully,' the shelter said.
'The second left behind a milk crate containing a single kitten that was either already dead or mere breaths away from death. She had passed before staff arrived.
'Then the man got into his Tesla and drove away.'
The shelter had more than a few questions for the man in the Tesla.
'You couldn't have sat with her? Held her? Given her comfort? Taken her to a vet? Buried her? You brought her here — a place unfamiliar, unmanned at the time, closed — and left her to die alone. That's not compassion. That's not even decency. That's cowardice.'
The kittens that were dropped off by the woman were rescued and are currently getting care, but the Humane Society addressed her as well.
'To the woman who read the sign and abandoned animals anyway: you are no better. You took up space and resources meant for animals whose guardians followed the process,' the shelter continued. 'When you abandon animals here, you're stealing — stealing food, stealing care, stealing safety — from pets already here and those we work every day to save.'
The shelter continued to express its exhaustion at people who leave sick and dying animals on its doorstep since the nonprofit organization doesn't have a vet on staff or the resources for cremation.
'When you dump a dead or dying animal here, you're not giving them a chance. You're giving them fear. You're giving them loneliness. And you're robbing them of dignity in their final moments,' the shelter said.
The shelter hopes that in the future, people show compassion to their pets since humans are their entire world.
'Yes, pets are hard. They are also a commitment. They are family,' the shelter said.
'And this constant flow of avoidable heartbreak — this cycle of human negligence and innocent suffering — has to stop.'
Beaumont is about an 85-mile drive northeast from Houston.
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