Giles Co. woman says her cats were poisoned and killed
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Giles Co. woman says her cats were poisoned and...
It all started on Christmas day. Robin Stephen says she saw her cat, Millie, crumpled up and whimpering in pain.Robin Stephen wants to know who came on her property, poisoned her cats and left them for dead.
“Anyone that brutalizes little kitties or cats they’re an impotent coward,“ said Stephen.
It all started on Christmas day when Stephen saw her cat, Millie, crumpled up and whimpering in pain.
“Something had happened to her, but I wasn’t sure what.“
Stephen says that was just the beginning…“I found cats and little kittens dying or dead everywhere and I immediately knew at that point, they had the same symptoms, and I knew at that point they had been poisoned.“
She says the fence leading to her house had been lowered, the light on the fence where she kept the cats had been shot out the week before and she found antifreeze on her property.
Stephen immediately realized the antifreeze had been used to poison her cats.
She believes someone used some type of device to get the antifreeze through the fence to the cats.
“Some were howling in pain,“ said Stephen when talking about how the cats suffered. “They couldn’t lay on their stomach, couldn’t lay on their sides and you knew something was wrong. They don’t die right away. They suffer. It’s a gruesome death.“
In a letter that Stephen received from Tri-County Veterinary Services in Peterstown, West Virginia where she took one of the cats for observation, the vet says the animal had ingested antifreeze, the symptoms were irreversible and the cat was humanely destroyed.
About a dozen cats died.
But, luckily, several of them *did not* ingest the antifreeze.
Stephen says they’re now in a safe location out of state and she’s now looking for the person who put them all in danger.
Stephen has yet to file a police report, but she is offering a reward if anyone lets her know who poisoned the cats.
Stephen says she plans to turn over all the information she receives to the proper authorities.
If you know anything that can help Stephen, you’re asked to call her at
540-921-2200 or 540-922-6222 or by email at
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Stephen says she’s also working to introduce a bill that would make it a felony to poison animals.
If you’d like to help, then Stephen is waiting on your call.
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Maybe you should investagate more about the type of people you are dealing with. Did you ever think too ask her really how many cats she does have. And maybe there not being killed by someone. They are actually being killed by her from lack of attention. I personally know a family that is going through a rough time with this woman, because she claims that they are the ones killing her cats. And it is all false accusations from her. This woman has her own issues to deal with. So she does not even deserve the cats that she does have. From my understanding she is running her own cat kennel. And we see so many stories on that with people who does not take proper care of these animals. Maybe you should re-investigate this story.
Just the statement that she found cats and kittens dying everywhere makes you wonder how many she had. There’s no way a person can give that many cats the care they need, and it sounds as if none were spayed or neutered as well.
Animals need love, attention and proper care. Just the fact that some were found already dead shows they weren’t getting the attention, otherwise she would have caught it earlier.
So many people think they’re doing a great thing by feeding strays and letting them hang around. Unless they’re willing to take them into their home where it’s warm and give them love, proper shots and spay or neuter as well, they’re doing nothing more than putting the animal in danger.
I’m not an animal activist, but I am tired of seeing so many stray animals out there who deserve better.
A lady who works at the laundrymat in Vinton on 24 is guilty of the same thing. Although she thinks she’s doing a good deed by feeding the strays then shooing them away when animal control comes, she’s actually hurting them. They live in the bushes and sewer drains, and freeze in the winter. I’ve lost count of the ones who have been hit by cars and died on the side of the road in that area. My husband was unlucky enough to hit one late one night on his way home from work. He tried to find the cat, but it had ran into the sewer drain where it probably died.
Poisoning them isn’t the answer, but neither is having so many that you can properly take care of them.
Was she violating any laws stating how many cats she can have on her property? I know that a lot of people have too many animals, weather it be cats or dogs or horses. It seems no one ever looks out for their pets before themselves these days. Thoughts?
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