Three newborn kittens found dead with legs bound by rope among abandoned litter of five in Hong Kong village
- One of the two surviving cats died later at SPCA headquarters
- Animal cruelty case is second in a week in city, with earlier incident involving poisoned dogs
Three newborn kittens were found dead with their legs bound by rope at a refuse collection point in a northern Hong Kong village on Friday, prompting a police investigation into animal cruelty.
The trio were among a litter of five abandoned on Shek Tong Tsuen off Yau Shin Street in Yuen Long.
One of the two surviving domestic shorthair cats, which were taken to the Wan Chai headquarters of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) for treatment, later died.
The case, reported by businessman Cheung Chi-yeung, 44, past midnight on Thursday after he heard the squeals of the kittens, was the second local incident of animal cruelty in a week.
Officers are investigating and no arrests have been made.
Cheung found one of the surviving cats attempting to crawl out of a plastic bag at the bottom of a massive rubbish bin.
“Inside the bag, there was another surviving kitten and three dead cats with their legs tied together with rope,” he said, adding that he believed the animals were found less than 12 hours after they were abandoned.