Katherine Hall. Spoiled rich cat killer.
Seriously. Why go to the length of poisoning your neighbor's beloved cats with antifreeze to stop them from peeing on your strawberry garden? It makes you a CK (cat killer).
Posted on 10/29/2009 1:20:09 AM PDT by myknowledge
A wealthy woman who poisoned her neighbour's Abyssinian cats with tuna laced with anti-freeze has been ordered to pay £1,500 in compensation to the distraught owner.
Katherine Hall, 57, put the deadly tins of tuna in her garden to stop Nush and Mr Baz urinating on her strawberries.
The court heard that the five-and-a-half year old cats died in agony a few days later.
When police searched Hall's garden they found remnants of the deadly meal, and a cat-scaring machine.
Owner Andrew Boyd said it was a 'disgrace' that Hall did not receive a harsher punishment.
'I don't want to see anyone going to jail, but she should have been banned from having animals, and given community service at least,' he said.
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Katherine Hall. Spoiled rich cat killer.
Seriously. Why go to the length of poisoning your neighbor's beloved cats with antifreeze to stop them from peeing on your strawberry garden? It makes you a CK (cat killer).
Monster.
And if these were pet rats that were allowed outside, would it have been okay to use rat poison?
Rats are disease vectors, so rat poison would have been applicable.
With a couple dozen henchmen and an underground complex she could be a freaking Bond movie villain.
The old cow looks like she has already been into rat poison.
I am now taking care of 6 kittens and 3 adult cats.
Guess she was really pissed off?
Beautiful cat.
Really! Just go out and shoot 'em!
THAT is the most disturbing quote in the article. I don't think I'd be attending a dinner party at her house....ever.
Gato ping.
For sure...she might serve strawberries laced with cat piss.
I put hot pepper flakes wherever the neighbor cats were peeing & it stopped them. The worst part was when they would pee by the window where my cats sat indoors. It got to the point you couldn’t open the window in the nice weather. I used the flakes & added some cayenne pepper & it took a few times & they stopped coming around. I hate cat killers.
Her puffy face IMO suggests she may nip on the bottle a bit to much.
Some people see cats like I see rats/racoons.
Not excusing her poor judgement.
Although if irks me that when on occasion my dogs go on a non premissable Run/ecsape from my property is is all the Cat people who cant wait to dial 911 to report their kitties are being terrorized (and yeah my dogs aim at kitties/dear and any other good chase, no that is not right).
Yet the Cats love to come baste in the sun right outside the fence and taunt the dogs.
But anti freezing someones loved cat is just wrong.
She should install a fake dog barking device or cage traps and return the cats to their owners with her anti cat opine.
LOL The male cats were serenading your beloved Cat?
She must be one sexy feline.
This is NOT about justifying what she did.
IF *MY* pets were a problem to a neighbor, whether it was peeing on a garden, scratching car paint by walking on parked cars, getting in garbage or meowing by a neighbor’s window I WOULD FEEL RESPONSIBLE FOR MY PETS’ ACTIONS and change my and my pets’ behaviours and ‘outdoor times.’
SOME pets ARE a bother in the neighborhood. And not everyone loves my pets. I don’t have a right to let my pets be a bother to others. While *I* might think “Chewy” is the sweetest and coolest Siamese cat in the world, I know for certain that my (Korean) neighbors DO NOT like it when he uses their ornamental flower garden for his rest stop.
Again, not to justify what she did, I am just saying that I can see why the woman might be a bit annoyed, to the point where she took (bad) action). I do wonder if she had ever asked her neighbor to control her pets’ behaviour.
>Rats are disease vectors, so rat poison would have been applicable.
Cats carry and shed Toxoplasma Gondii in their urine. It infects Humans, is suspected in both Auto Immune and schizophrenia cases as the culprit. Pretty hard ot get rid of once you’ve ogt it too, IIRC. And it may screw up your brain in more subtle chronic ways as well.
People have to keep their animals on their own property. Not just for their neighbor’s good, but for their animal’s. No way I’d be able to function with the worry if my Dogs were running loose.
>I do wonder if she had ever asked her neighbor to control her pets’ behaviour.
She probably did. When the cats got sick, the neighbors called the police, and sent them right over to check out her yard, where they found the tuna.
Just curious. What does the financial status of this woman have to do with the story? Why is the adjective "wealthy" included? If it's so important, wouldn't the financial status of the "distraught" cat owner also be important. Aren't Abyssinian cats expensive and wouldn't a neighbor of a wealthy woman also be wealthy? If this woman was on welfare, would that have excused what she did? Inquiring minds want to know....
Or it might be cat piss in your strawberries...
Most cat owners that let their cat out at night do not care what their cat does. Otherwise they wouldn’t let them out at night.
Extremely inconsiderate and certainly being a bad neighbor.
Control your cats and bad stuff won’t happen to them.
So you are ok with murder as long as its a person who is tired of their neighbors cat pissing in their garden?
Good post Blueflag.
Siamese cats our something else. Had one in my kid years, that old Tom use to come in from doing bad things to neighbor kittens (his most likely) and get into bed as I slept and would bite me in the chest with all claws digging in.
Would have nightmares about that old Tom.
I even nursed him back to health after the kid across the street put a bee bee in his hiney.
Idiot suppose to be my parents did not treat animals as in vet care ect...
I OTOH am a huge animal lover.
Labs for 25 years and now that I am older less agile I added a Dachsaund to the family.
Two Huge white Labs and the Preacher of the Choir the Doxie.
He will be one year in a few days.
He has been the sweetest most spoiled brat I ever had.
Funny thing though in the last few weeks his true Doxie personality has become very apparent.
I thought I dodged that bullet, um no. He has come of age. LOL
Cats have a protein in their saliva that works as some kind of brain agent on humans and other species. It is an 'attractant' that makes the cat an irresistable object to whatever or whoever is affected. This explains a lot of the human fascination with cats.
You don't have to tell Ms. Hall, as her strawberries were already being poisoned.
I do not agree with what she did, but you are NO better.
I hope that was sarcasm. Pick your poison...rabbit piss, 'coon piss, deer piss, cat piss, fruit-picker piss. That's why we wash our fruits and vegetables...I was taught that as a toddler.
I stand by my position that a nutcase who would purposely serve up a fatal poison to a neighbor's pet cats, while comparing it to a "bad meal at a restaurant," has a serious screw loose.
I didn't say anything about killing her. I said “tell her” she will be poisoned. Constant mental anguish and the chance to drop a few pounds seems like just what the old cow needs.
I raise strawberries, 30 gallon out of my little patch this past year. And strawberries do NOT liked to be washed.
I would NOT do what this woman did but I would put up a sign that said cats were NOT welcome to come pee on my strawberries.
cats don’t read and neighbors who let their cats out at night don’t care.
What a waste! I love cats, they taste just like rabbit. In fact, in the near future when the producer : consumer ratio is completely blown and food is far more important than pets, you can replace the rabbit in your favorite Hasenpfeffer recipe with cat and your family won’t be able to tell the difference. Actually, if you have ever traveled abroad and had any kind of rabbit stew, there is a better than 60% chance you already ate cat and didn’t know it. Very tender when they are young.
I find it strange that you don’t seem to care about the cats owner who refused to control their animal. I think cat owners who are like that should be force fed strawberries soaked in cat urine.
I pick gallons of strawberries every year...make award-winning jelly out of them. I also wash them because the rabbits, raccoons, cats, and deer have heretofore not heeded my "no peeing on my strawberries" sign. Good Lord.
Would this also work to stop my daughter’s cat from pissing in my shoes?
Moth flakes work very well also.
Cats do what they do and of course they do not read. But surely their sorry neglectful owners do.
While the story does not specifically say it seems to indicate the cat owners knew where their cats had been. So it is reasonable to believe they knew their cats were causing a problem.
And while I would not do what this woman did, I would have shared my strawberries with the cat owners.
“And while I would not do what this woman did, I would have shared my strawberries with the cat owners.”
I totally agree. Although I can understand this ladies frustration when your lazy inconsiderate neighbor refuses to control their animal. Someone else said she should have used a live trap. Those are expensive but it seems a good idea.
I grow tomatoes every year, and there’s a cat here that insisted, year after year, on digging up my maters.
I would have gladly poisoned it had I not come up with a better method (6’ wire netting around my garden.
How does some cat have the right to destroy someone’s garden?
Ed
If some cat, or any other animal, was coming around and peeing in my food garden I wouldn’t kill it. I would keep pinging it with a BB until it decided it didn’t want to come around any more.
My folks tried have a garden and set live traps as well but another “good Samaritan” took the cat and the trap...The cat came back, but the expensive trap did not.
Unfortunately that will get you in as much trouble as killing it. Plus I think bb guns are banned in the UK.
Are you saying you grow strawberries? There is a difference in raising the plants and going to a berry farm and picking them. I spray repellent around the perimeter of my strawberry beds just to keep the critters OUT.
I too make strawberry jams and jelly, but have never entered them in any contests.
And thats why people do what this lady did.
if you love your cat you should keep it under control. Bad things happen out in the wild and dangerous world.
That may be one of the reasons I don’t live there
A pet coyote will solve the problem. To them, a little kitty is just a light snack.
One couple up the street has a convertable top car. The poor little kitties like to sharpen their claws on the top.
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