Pet hating OAP admits poisoning five of his neighbours’ cats using tuna laced with anti-freeze
A pet hating pensioner has admitted to putting out poisoned tuna after five of his neighbours’ cats were found dead.
Donald Waterworth pleaded guilty to an animal cruelty charge after RSCPA investigators found a plate of tuna laced with anti-freeze in his garden in Leyland, Lancashire.
Mr Waterworth’s neighbours Linsey Bilsborough, 45, and Julie McClumpha, 55, both lost their cats, five in total, in a two week period last October.
A heartbroken Julie, whose four cats all died, saw Mr Waterworth putting something in his garden around the time of the cats’ deaths, a court heard.
The mother-of-two, who lives next to Mr Waterworth said her cat Tipex ‘suddenly became ill and he wouldn’t let you stroke him, which was very unusual, and he just curled up in a ball in the corner’.
After taking him to the vet she was told he had ingested anti-freeze and would not survive.
She said: ‘There was nothing the vet could do and he was put to sleep. He was only 11-months-old and we were devastated.’
‘We loved them so much and we’re still so angry about it. I’ll never understand how someone could do that.’
Jonathan Fail, prosecuting for the RSPCA, told Preston Magistrate’s Court there would have been ‘very significant suffering on behalf of the cats’.
The court ordered Mr Waterworth to pay £1,665.66 in court costs and was fined £125 as well as a £20 victim surcharge.
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