Animal welfare advocates encourage community mindfulness after eight-month-old cat found abandoned

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A pet rescue in Adelaide says it was left shocked after a cat was dumped hours after being adopted. Eight-month-old kitten Pierre was found alive in his carrier in the middle of the road, drenched and cold after an overnight storm. Animal welfare advocates say the community needs to be more mindful about pet ownership.

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00:00A shocking phone call which left this cat rescue in utter disbelief.

00:07I was almost in tears because I was like, surely no one could dump the cat that fast.

00:12Eight-month-old Pierre adopted just 12 hours earlier,

00:16found by a passerby and taken to a local vet.

00:19The lady who found him found him in the middle of the road in his carrier.

00:23He was soaking wet, he was covered in urine.

00:25Likely he'd been in the carrier for a while.

00:27Adelaide kitten rescue founders, mother-daughter duo Chantelle and Janine contacted the adopter.

00:33She called her brother who was looking after him because she was at work,

00:36had apparently decided he didn't like the cat anymore

00:39and decided to put him out in his carrier outside.

00:42It's an outcome the rescue has never seen before

00:45and one they say serves as an important reminder for people to carefully consider adoption

00:51and if it doesn't work out to contact a rescue rather than dump an animal.

00:56For now, Pierre is recovering here at the rescue.

01:00But there's no shortage of applicants wanting to take him home.

01:04And this time, hopefully, it'll be a happily ever after.

01:08Pierre is one of thousands of stray cats which end up at rescues every year.

01:12More desexing, less stray cats. That's the goal.

01:16It's a message echoed by other advocates, including this cat rescuer who manages a community cat desexing program.

01:24But she says rescues can't do it alone.

01:27It needs to be taken on board by state government, council, rescue, shelter, any stakeholder on board

01:34and take a global approach to desexing.

01:38A community of cat lovers working tirelessly to address a complex problem.

01:48It's the problem, it's a problem.

01:55In that moment, we went to the water, the energy of water, the water, the water, the water.

02:01The water'swater, the water'swater, the water, the water.

02:03And this is a problem.

02:05It's predestined from the water.

02:07It's a problem.

02:08You can look at the water and the water.

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