Cat left blistered and balding after suspected scalding

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A woman believes someone chucked boiling hot water at her cat leaving it blistered and balding.



Catherine Kendall said she was told by her vet that her cat Geri might have been scalded.

The 16-year-old tabby suffered blisters and her fur has fallen out in chunks.

Catherine, 26, said: “It’s horrible because she’s such a good cat and would never hurt anyone.

“She’s got blisters and her skin is red raw and seeping. If you just stroke her the fur just comes out in chunks.”

Geri is said to be healing and is on antibiotics and painkillers.

Catherine has contacted the police about the attack which happened near her home in Wyver Crescent, Copsewood, Coventry, on Friday or Saturday.

When Catherine found her injured cat she said: “Her eyes were bulging, she looked like she’d been run over. Fur was missing from her head. It took me about half an hour to get her, she was absolutely petrified.”

Catherine, who makes cakes for a living, said the neighbourhood was home to a lot of cats and she wants to warn other owners to look out for their pets.

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Some absolute b@st@rds about!

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Man threw boiling water on elderly cat because she kept using his garden as a toilet



A man who threw scalding hot water over a neighbour’s cat because it defecated in his garden has been jailed for three months.

Jason Kelly, 46 of Wyver Crescent, Copsewood, was jailed today at Birmingham Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to an animal in October last year.

The court heard that Kelly threw boiling water over a 16-year-old tabby cat called Geri leaving her with horrific injuries that may never fully heal.

Rafe Turner, prosecuting for the RSPCA, said the cat’s owner, Catherine Kendall-Robertson, lived a couple of doors away from Kelly.

On October 9 last year she let Geri out but it failed to return.

When she went out looking for her pet the next day she heard it meowing and saw it up a tree.

It was quite obviously scared of something and when she examined the cat Miss Kendall-Robertson discovered one of her eyes was swollen and half closed.

Mr Turner said the severity of the injuries were not immediately apparent but it later became clear that Geri had suffered “significant skin damage.”

He said: “The cat had been in a significant amount of pain for a significant time and the burns have the potential to dramatically effect the cat’s long term health.”

Mr Turner said Mis Kendall-Robertson had become suspicious about comments made by Kelly who later admitted what he had done claiming the cat had “tormented him.”

Henry Whitney, defending, said: “It was motivated by the fact that either this animal or another one had been fouling his property for some time.

"In the past he had taken reasonable steps to prevent that fouling continuing.

"It was an impulsive act motivated not by an intention to injure the animal but to dissuade it.”

RSPCA inspector Louise Labram, who investigated the incident, said: “This was a callous act which is completely out of proportion for the offence and caused this poor cat much pain and distress.”

At the time of the attack Geri’s owner, Catherine Kendall, told the Telegraph: “She’s got blisters and her skin is red raw and seeping. If you just stroke her the fur just comes out in chunks.”

The cake-maker from Copsewood said that Geri still hasn’t recovered from the attack.

Geri was left with permanent scarring and a patch on her head which has left part of her skull exposed.

Catherine said: “I don’t think she will fully recover. She’s a little bit better than what she was though.”

Ms Labram added: “She no longer goes outside, is very clingy and follows her owner around everywhere. It has not only affected her physically, but it has damaged her mental wellbeing too.”

Alongside a prison sentence, Kelly was also handed a ten year ban from keeping animals and ordered to pay £538.94 in costs.

On the outcome of the case, Catherine said: “I’m just really happy that she got the justice she deserves. It feels like we can move on now.”