Starving dog eats cat's body to survive after cruel owner locked the pets in an apartment and moved out
A starving dog reportedly ate a cat in a UK residence they shared after their heartless owner moved out leaving her pets alone to fend for themselves. Authorities found the embattled animals 10 days later.
Tiffany Guest, 29, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, pleaded guilty to three animal welfare charges before being sentenced to 18 weeks in prison and banned from owning any animals for 15 years on October 23, the New York Post reports.
On May 20, 2017, Guest moved out of her apartment leaving Kray, a Staffordshire bull terrier-type dog, and two cats, Reggie and Ronnie, alone at the residence without any help.
Local police responded to the home on May 30 after calls from concerned neighbors. Upon arrival, they found Kray alive but emaciated. Meanwhile, Reggie had starved to death.
Officials determined the dog had only survived because he ate Ronnie after running out of scraps left behind in the apartment's garbage bin.
That said, authorities subsequently launched an investigation into their predicament and rushed Kray to a local animal welfare agency for immediate medical attention.
They were successfully able to track down Guest to a location near her job, which was only a mile from her previous apartment.
However, she fled the country for Malta as soon as she found out she was facing animal welfare charges. Border control agents arrested her after she returned to the UK 13 months ago.
Guest was then bailed to reappear in court on a later date but took off once more for Malta. On October 10, she returned to the UK once again. This time, however, she was held without bail pending her case at the Birmingham Magistrates’ Court.
“It is incomprehensible to think the suffering these pets must have endured and how terrified they must have been for such a long period of time before the cats died of starvation”, Boris Lasserre, inspector of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said after the sentencing. “It must have been terrible for Kray to watch as the cats died in front of him. There was evidence the pets had scavenged to try and feed themselves as the bin contents were all over the kitchen floor.”
Kray has since regained his weight and now has a new, loving home. Local police renamed him Bobby following the ordeal.