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Detective juices
Rūta Liberienė, director of the Panevėžys Animal Care Society, received a call from scared people on Tuesday. Going to the forest near the animal shelter in the village of Kaimiškis to bring the juice, I found two large white buckets covered in the construction putty on the way. Outraged by the forest’s polluters, they did not expect to find a much more grueling find.
Opening tightly covered buckets, they saw two dead adult cats inside. According to R. Liberienė, the inspection revealed that the cats were not marked, so their owners are not yet known. The police officers were summoned to the scene.
No doubt about malice
According to R. Liberienė, without research it is not possible to answer how the animals were found in buckets. Still, he thinks the cats were probably stuffed alive and out of breath.
“One cat was all covered in putty. If they had put him dead in a bucket, he wouldn’t have been disappointed. Another found lying in such a pose that the dead would not be so inserted. They were probably pushed alive and suffocated because the lids of the pails were tightly closed, ”said R. Liberienė.
The director of the animal shelter says he does not believe these pets were killed with nowhere to put them. According to her, the cat shelter is crowded, but a way out is always being sought and the animals are offered to be handed over to other guardians as well.
“As a result, no one got rid of those animals,” says R. Liberienė.
According to her, the society’s volunteers find discarded animals almost every day, but such brutal murders have yet to take place.
Currently, more than 60 cats and more than 40 dogs are housed in temporary accommodation in Kaimiškis. Since 2010, the animal shelters located in the old farm of this town have been dedicated solely to the collection of victims.
Photo by V. Zaleckienė
Responsibility does not escape
According to Tadas Martinaitis, a communications specialist with the Panevėžys County Police Chief Commissioner, criminal proceedings are often initiated for cruelty to animals and the perpetrator is brought to justice.
Cruel treatment, torture or mutilation of an animal will also result in a fine, arrest or imprisonment of up to one year for torture.
According to a police spokesman, it is naive to believe that these criminals are not caught.
In 2019, six pre-trial investigations into cruel treatment of animals were launched in Panevėžys, in 2020, the same number. According to T. Martinaitis, a pre-trial investigation started last year is still ongoing.
“I would say a lot: six surveys of this type a year. On average, an event of cruel treatment to animals occurs every two months, leading to the initiation of a pre-trial investigation,” says T. Martinaitis.
The perpetrator was detected in an instant
R. Liberienė, director of the Panevėžys Animal Care Society, hopes that the culprits of this event will be identified. Especially since both the police and the shelter volunteers are actively investigating who brought the white buckets into the forest. Residents of the area are also interviewed.
According to R. Liberienė, this is not the first case where you have to apply to the police, but for volunteers to take on detective work. Last year, a girl stole from the shelter a recently spayed dog, who had not recovered well after the operation, and beat her when they took her out. The shelter posted the video on Facebook and soon received valuable information, not only the identity of the thief, but also the place of residence. Soon the dog was back in the shelter.
“We went to the police and took the dog, and the girl was fined,” says R. Liberienė.
The dog thief paid a fine of 90 euros.
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